I beg your pardon

It is a matter of fact, Chileans are not dummies at all, if not a 7% annual growing in their economy means that at least something has been well done.
What is the "secret" or the recipe then? Perhaps, because  I myself  a very Chilean person, can look for the facts that made the difference.
Cultural facts are important, and more than just to try to understand the language, we need to understand Chileans themselves. Certainly in this matter I'm almost an expert.

Chileans in many aspects are very similar to English people. I mean, we always said we are the English of South America. We really are very serious person, a little bit depressed and thinking most of the time what the "others" are going to think about us. But in reality we try to portray the old idea of a very dull  and bored English man  living in a castle, surrounded by antiques and  books more like a joke than our own style.

Living for periods in UK I was able to discover for example, that my dear grandma was a very Chilean version of a wife in the Victorian Era. That "Pride and Prejudice" should had been written on hour country home, and that most of my "moral education" was based in precepts and concepts of the Queen Victoria times (imagine me, a naughty girl at last). How all this culture of repression, the convenient and inconvenient, nature but not natural went into our very Chilean life style? ... Probably with English people landing in the quiet and remote country of Chile, at the end of the 19th Century. But more possible, with the arrival of a new concept of teacher called Governess.

Perhaps one of the main inheritance of those very Victorian single and strict women, who arrived into Chile for  being in charge of the modern education of  the wealthy and over protect Chilean kids at the beginning of the 20's Century, was the word "Misia" and of course, the long lasting tradition of the Five O'Clock Tea time, indeed.

I beg your pardon anyway, because my language is not natively English, but to share a little bit about the Chileans I think is interesting, even so to consider UK under the sight of someone that is not a Gringo.