La historia de vida de Mariana Derderian

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¿Sabías que Mariana Derderian nació en Venezuela y es descendiente de armenios?

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00:00Do I make it short or long?

00:02It depends, but I can edit it.

00:04Yes, but give me context.

00:06Oh, how beautiful!

00:08Is this in Venezuela?

00:10This is in Venezuela.

00:12My Armenian grandparents...

00:16The history of Armenia, the Turkish invasion,

00:18genocide,

00:20orphaned grandparents at a very young age.

00:22They were taken by the UNG.

00:24An UNG takes them to the Armenian neighborhood

00:26in Jerusalem.

00:28There was a lot of orphanage,

00:30a lot of...

00:32We were taking children...

00:34That's the reality of your grandparents.

00:36So...

00:38Yes, my grandmother was like...

00:40But let's tell it with joy.

00:42So, the thing is that...

00:44They started to hunt.

00:46To hunt kids, you know?

00:48So they hunt them, they put them on a boat

00:50and they get to Valparaiso.

00:52And from there they go to Quijota.

00:54And they had no idea

00:56about their lives.

00:58Because, let's say,

01:00they had gone through a traumatic moment.

01:02Nothing, not even a word in Spanish.

01:04Nothing, nothing, nothing.

01:06How old are we talking about?

01:08How much information do you have?

01:10They, as they never remembered,

01:12and my grandmother's name was Sirvat,

01:14and it means rose bud,

01:16she chose that her birthday

01:18was going to be for Santa Rosa.

01:20And she said, I'm 13.

01:22More or less.

01:24So we started to count.

01:26And Sirvat,

01:28for me it's an honor, I have it,

01:30it's one of my few tattoos.

01:32Here I have Sirvat,

01:34in honor of my wonderful grandmother,

01:36who I only saw once in my life.

01:38So, yes.

01:40It's a sad story,

01:42but I feel very proud.

01:44And when you were able to talk to,

01:46I don't know, your father,

01:48or also thinking a little about this story

01:50that your grandmother passed on to your parents,

01:52how was her evolution later,

01:54with all this trauma and all this?

01:56I mean, they left having like a kiosk

01:58in La Cruz, which is a smaller town

02:00next to Quillota.

02:04And then it grew, and grew, and grew,

02:06but deep down my grandmother was a warrior.

02:08She had six children,

02:10she got ahead with him,

02:14he died before her, let's say.

02:16But they kept a marriage?

02:18Of course, they kept it.

02:20In this circumstance that they were also married?

02:22I think it was like that before.

02:24Before it was like, well,

02:26especially them who came as refugees.

02:28It's like a fraternity,

02:30it's your family.

02:32It's a kind of affection that was formed there.

02:34Of survival.

02:36It's survival, it's like the only thing I have.

02:38And on top of that, they called them the Turks,

02:40which was like the offense.

02:42My aunts,

02:44to put a funny thing,

02:46my aunts, when the Turkish tricycles were in fashion,

02:48she loved it,

02:50but she saw it with a guilt,

02:52so she saw it as a day in the middle.

02:54Because she couldn't see it,

02:56like, forgive me mom.

02:58But a day in the middle.

03:00But a day in the middle.

03:02And you go to Venezuela later?

03:04Of course, my parents go to Venezuela,

03:06and I have an older brother,

03:08I'm 41 years old,

03:10my sister is 42.

03:12Sometimes the quarantines are not respected.

03:14So,

03:16the thing is that my sister,

03:18as the first daughter,

03:20they came to have her in Chile.

03:22My mom wanted to be with her mother,

03:24her sisters, and feel protected.

03:26And then she realized it was a party.

03:28And the second child?

03:30And there I arrived.

03:32In Venezuela.

03:34In Caracas.

03:36How long did you live in Venezuela?

03:38Until I was 9, almost 10.

03:40And what happened when you arrived in Chile?

03:42It's very different from Venezuela.

03:44In addition, thinking about Venezuela,

03:46the climate, the way to dress,

03:48the cold,

03:50I imagine,

03:52I'm talking about 60 years ago,

03:54a Venezuela very different from now.

03:56A Venezuela...

03:58Paradise.

04:00Very rich, very rich, wonderful.

04:02Yes, it was strong.

04:04I really never thought we were going to come.

04:06Well, I was a girl too,

04:08but I always thought that everything was happening there.

04:10And, of course,

04:12my parents wanted to be with the family again,

04:14and to raise us with the cousins,

04:16and all those things.

04:18But you spoke like a Venezuelan.

04:20Oh, my mom comes to pick me up in the car.

04:22What?

04:24Bullying, bullying, bullying.

04:26Basic room, of course.

04:28When I arrived at school,

04:30I said, hello teacher,

04:32tell me aunt, because if you are not my aunt,

04:34why do I have to tell you that you are my aunt,

04:36if you are not my aunt?

04:38And I said,

04:40but I started to add everything,

04:42my mom comes to pick me up in the car,

04:44so that no one would bother me.

04:46Obviously.

04:48I put everything,

04:50and little by little,

04:52it was what I wanted the most.

04:54Of course, at home I say,

04:56that the fridge, that the drawer,

04:58that the fridge.

05:00I say fridge, I say drawer,

05:02let's go to the supermarket,

05:04because my parents also keep talking

05:06with certain words from the newspaper.

05:08They read the newspaper.

05:10They read the newspaper.

05:12So, of course,

05:14for them to stop bothering me,

05:16I became Chilean very quickly.

05:18Very quickly.

05:20But you also keep the Venezuelan like that.

05:22It's impressive, because it's cool,

05:24you have it in, the accent, everything.

05:26And now I have a partner

05:28who lives with me,

05:30who is Rosy,

05:32and she is with the children when I work,

05:34and she is Venezuelan.

05:36You came back.

05:38Arepita, breakfast, my love.

05:40I mean, Venezuelan,

05:42bachata, my house is Venezuela.

05:44It was a good story.

05:46Yes.

05:48And you settled well in Chile.

05:50Yes, yes, the first winters were horrible.

05:52But of course,

05:54I was a girl, I was a girl.

05:56I still didn't have

05:58the friendships, I think when you left.

06:00It was more.

06:02Yes, it's like someone

06:0414 years old, I think it's more difficult.

06:06If you want to change country, a son, I don't know.

06:08It's going to take more adaptation, but.

06:10Speaking of pre-adolescence, adolescence,

06:12Egoña.

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