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  • 3/13/2025
Sueño Americano Capítulo 1 Completo HD
Sueño Americano Capítulo 1 Completo HD
Sueño Americano Capítulo 1 Completo HD
Sueño Americano Capítulo 1 Completo HD
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00:00:30Let's see together if you can achieve the American Dream.
00:00:41In today's episode, three strong and brave women dare to raise their children very far from their country,
00:00:48with only one goal, to look for a better future.
00:00:52And I came without knowing anyone.
00:00:55I came when I was seven months pregnant.
00:01:00I arrived at one in the morning, I had two jobs.
00:01:03And I look back and say, how did I do it?
00:01:06I am a representative of the Shaolin Kung Fu style.
00:01:10When I manage, with my dance, that you disconnect, mission accomplished.
00:01:16What do your children think?
00:01:17I know they feel proud of me.
00:01:21Because their dream is to get to the White House.
00:01:24It excites me.
00:01:26All the love that we have given each other has no price.
00:01:45I met Carolina before.
00:01:48When I lived in Chile, I came to Las Vegas to a tourism congress.
00:01:55And she was the choreographer, the ambassador.
00:01:59But I didn't know I lived here.
00:02:01So today I'm going to know her story.
00:02:05Hello.
00:02:06Hello.
00:02:07Welcome.
00:02:09Welcome to Las Vegas.
00:02:10It's good to see you again.
00:02:12Yes, really.
00:02:16And why did you invite me here?
00:02:18What is so special about this for you?
00:02:21Well, we, here in this gymnasium, we do our 18th of September.
00:02:26Here we gather all the Chileans.
00:02:29Our sixth year.
00:02:31But the association, this year that passed, turned 30 years old.
00:02:39Carolina was born in Paradero 20 de la Florida.
00:02:42She dreamed of living in the United States and achieve an American-style family.
00:02:48But fate put great obstacles in her way.
00:02:52She separated and had to raise her children alone.
00:02:57The eldest, Caroline, is a talented violinist and enthusiastic democrat
00:03:03who fought for Kamala Harris to get to the White House.
00:03:09Together, they preside over an association that tries to bring together the Chileans of Las Vegas.
00:03:18How many people came last year?
00:03:20500.
00:03:22They come to eat churrasco.
00:03:24Churrasco.
00:03:25Yes.
00:03:26So you have to hire local churrasco makers.
00:03:29Yes, correct.
00:03:30We have a spectacular Chilean lady who makes churrasco, lomitos, churipanes.
00:03:35The idea of this is that the culture remains.
00:03:39Correct?
00:03:40Yes.
00:03:41The culture is preserved.
00:03:48How much work is it for you two?
00:03:52Completely voluntary.
00:03:54Yes.
00:03:55Everyone who helps make this event as big as it is, they do it for the love of the country.
00:04:01Love of the country.
00:04:02In the association, apart from doing this cultural issue,
00:04:06if someone comes with a problem, for example,
00:04:09we had a Chilean lady who came here and had cancer.
00:04:14I made a call to the Chilean community to do a mini teletón.
00:04:21We sold fried fish with mayo potatoes and Chilean salad,
00:04:25and everything that was sold that day,
00:04:28and all the completes that were sold,
00:04:30and all the lemon pies that were sold,
00:04:33all that was sold went to charity.
00:04:37So we opened at 9 in the morning, I think,
00:04:41and we finished at 12 at night.
00:04:43Do you mind if we go to the house?
00:04:49I would like to see if we can ask him to play the violin.
00:04:52Okay.
00:04:53Yes?
00:04:54Perfect.
00:04:55Welcome.
00:04:56I remember the first time I was in a Tesla, I didn't know how to turn it off.
00:05:02And you, Caroline, here, did you start playing the violin?
00:05:12I was five years old, but I actually started on the piano.
00:05:28But, I don't know, later he gave me the violin,
00:05:32and I told my mom, and thank God she listened to me,
00:05:36and we put effort into it from the beginning,
00:05:39and now I've been playing the violin for almost 15 years.
00:06:06Were you born here in Chile?
00:06:08Here, yes.
00:06:09Your Spanish is still pretty Chilean, I mean, it's naturalized.
00:06:12But I know a lot of Chileans who have been here for 15 years,
00:06:15and they already speak like me.
00:06:18I went to Chile every year for two or three months at a time,
00:06:21to stay with my grandparents, my family.
00:06:27You are at the university, you are working, what do you do?
00:06:30I am in my third year at the university here in Las Vegas,
00:06:34I am studying to be a lawyer.
00:06:36And what relationship do you have with the violin? Is it your hobby?
00:06:39I've been playing the violin for so long,
00:06:42that it became, I don't know, a way to de-stress, but also,
00:06:49what I always liked about the violin was that you can push yourself to the limits,
00:06:55it's like a competition with yourself.
00:06:58Because since I was a girl, I always went to Chile,
00:07:01my grandma, I think if she had the resources when she was a kid,
00:07:06she would have been a musician too.
00:07:08Definitely.
00:07:09And well, she always played me, I don't know how to say that,
00:07:12the guitar?
00:07:13Her turntable.
00:07:14Her turntable.
00:07:15She played me jazz from Mantoman, Gershwin, T-42, from anyone,
00:07:23and I grew up with that.
00:07:31I'm going to give you some water because it's really hot here in Vegas.
00:07:36So you don't get dehydrated.
00:07:37So, let's toast with water. Here I'll show you the house.
00:07:43What Chilean and gringo things do you have mixed in your house?
00:07:47Well, the most important thing, my Chilean corner.
00:07:53Your corner.
00:07:54Yes, it's not very...
00:07:55The wine.
00:07:56The wine, the wine for me is...
00:07:58The Indio Pícaro.
00:07:59Correct, the wine is vital.
00:08:05And this painting, what does it represent for you?
00:08:07This painting, well, this is the emerald and it was a gift from my brother,
00:08:13who is in Chile.
00:08:20This is the most gringo detail you can see.
00:08:22Yes.
00:08:23The gringos have such a big house that they don't disarm their Christmas tree.
00:08:28Yes, what happens is that disarming this tree is too high.
00:08:33They tell us that the tree is from New York, so the town square.
00:08:42How did you merge the childhood that would have been a 100% mom living in Chile
00:08:50with what you learned in the local culture?
00:08:55It's a very complicated subject.
00:08:59I got a divorce, so it was even worse.
00:09:04It was mom and dad.
00:09:06I had to learn from them, more than anything, from Caroline, the eldest.
00:09:11With the eldest we learned together what the educational system was like.
00:09:17I learned everything.
00:09:20How do you explain that your daughter reached the professional level of violin?
00:09:26What percentage of her was born?
00:09:29How many children live in a culture that pushes you to excellence?
00:09:36Yes, excellence, definitely.
00:09:38They are both students.
00:09:40They are honors students.
00:09:49Caroline Salvador Avila!
00:10:20Luis Miguel, your idol.
00:10:22Also my idol.
00:10:24Exactly, I forgot about that.
00:10:26That was the best.
00:10:28It was something that I have no words for.
00:10:32It's a pride.
00:10:34What we have done, what we have been doing since we were 6 years old,
00:10:38now it was just a fruit.
00:10:40And I look back and say, how did I do it if I was divorced?
00:10:46I arrived at 1 in the morning.
00:10:48I had two jobs.
00:10:50I worked as a waitress.
00:10:52I had another job in the morning until 2 in the afternoon.
00:10:55From there I would pick them up at school.
00:10:58I would change my clothes and I would go to work as a waitress.
00:11:02So I would say, now I look back, I was divorced.
00:11:06I didn't have a boyfriend.
00:11:08I didn't have time to meet anyone.
00:11:11When your daughter comes down, what song are we going to ask her on the piano?
00:11:15What song do you ask her to play?
00:11:18We like the piano a lot.
00:11:21Everything that is Christmas.
00:11:23Because on Christmas we can be together.
00:11:25Even if it's in Chile and the tree is still there.
00:11:28It doesn't matter. We are going to Chile.
00:11:30And if we are going to Chile, it's to be with our family.
00:11:33Caroline!
00:11:35How are you?
00:11:37We need you.
00:11:39Perfect.
00:12:09♪♪
00:12:38Bravo.
00:12:40Beautiful.
00:12:42It always excites me.
00:12:45Why?
00:12:47We started from nothing.
00:12:49I was devastated.
00:12:52It has been...
00:12:55To get what we have.
00:12:57To get where we are now.
00:13:01It has been such a big sacrifice.
00:13:05I don't know how we got so high.
00:13:11It excites me.
00:13:14Beautiful.
00:13:15It excites me.
00:13:19♪♪
00:13:24When you go to Chile, what are you going to do?
00:13:27I'm going to be with my family.
00:13:30My aunt, my grandmother.
00:13:32I love it.
00:13:34My mom goes for the family.
00:13:36But I like to see the country.
00:13:38My aunt takes me downtown.
00:13:40She takes me to Viña, to paradise.
00:13:43I met Kike a few years ago.
00:13:46I love it. I love Chile.
00:13:48♪♪
00:13:52Your drive.
00:13:53How do you understand your story?
00:13:56How do you explain your drive?
00:13:58I don't know how to say it in Spanish, but I can translate it.
00:14:01Yo creo que mi iniciativa definitivamente en parte me la enseñó mi mamá
00:14:07porque ella fue la que siempre me empujaba.
00:14:11Empezamos con el violín primero.
00:14:14Teníamos que ir a las clases el lunes, martes, miércoles, jueves, viernes, el sábado.
00:14:20Descansábamos, pero el domingo igual tocaba el violín en la iglesia.
00:14:24♪♪
00:14:29Nada es imposible.
00:14:30Esa me lo dijo siempre.
00:14:32Y aunque no me lo decía, yo sabía porque me lo mostró.
00:14:36Nosotros pasamos por harto.
00:14:38O sea, nosotros no siempre vivimos en una casa así.
00:14:42Estuvimos en la calle por un tiempo y tuvimos los tres juntitos.
00:14:47Tuvimos que crecer.
00:14:48¿A qué te refieres?
00:14:50¿Tú viviste en la calle?
00:14:51A nosotros se nos hizo súper difícil después del divorcio.
00:14:55Aquí justo pegó...
00:14:57Bueno, Las Vegas es la ciudad que más le pegó la recesión del 2008, 2010, por ahí.
00:15:05Y nosotros aquí perdimos todo.
00:15:08O sea, más encima, mis papás se estaban divorciando.
00:15:11Y, o sea, literalmente quedamos en la calle.
00:15:16Pero...
00:15:17Te quitaron la casa, el banco.
00:15:18La casa, el auto, todo.
00:15:20Y mi mamá quedó sola.
00:15:23¿Y qué te recuerda esa época?
00:15:26Fue difícil, fue fuerte.
00:15:28Pero igual creo que es la razón por la cual yo entiendo cuando ella me dice que nada es imposible.
00:15:37Porque, o sea, se esforzó y ahora vivimos aquí.
00:15:41¿Qué canción tocaste para Obama?
00:15:45El himno nacional.
00:15:47¿Puedes tocar eso?
00:15:48Bueno.
00:16:10♪♪♪
00:16:35¡Bravo!
00:16:37Hermoso.
00:16:38Gracias.
00:16:39Hermoso, hermoso.
00:16:40Nunca he tenido un concierto privado de mi himno nacional.
00:16:45Mi papá dijo lo mismo.
00:16:47¿A cuántos gringos has hecho llorar con esa canción?
00:16:51¡Harto!
00:16:52Sí, es que en casi todos los eventos siempre me encuentro los veteranos.
00:16:56Bueno, me encuentran a mí los veteranos porque me vienen a decir que nunca la habían escuchado en el violín.
00:17:01Yo gringo nunca.
00:17:03♪♪♪
00:17:11Las Vegas es una ciudad que nunca duerme.
00:17:17Sus más de 150 casinos funcionan las 24 horas del día y las noches son iluminadas por deslumbrantes luces de neón.
00:17:28¿Qué es lo que más te gusta de Las Vegas?
00:17:30Me gusta que se siente como una ciudad.
00:17:32Siempre todo está pasando. Aquí pasa todo.
00:17:39La ciudad que para más de 40 millones de turistas al año es un lugar de fiesta y desempleo.
00:17:47Para estas dos chilenas es el lugar dulce hogar.
00:17:52Pero lo que pasa aquí se queda aquí.
00:17:56♪♪♪
00:18:00Todo es 24-7, o sea, y eso es una ventaja que solo ocurre aquí en Las Vegas.
00:18:08En ninguna otra ciudad de Estados Unidos ocurre eso, solo aquí.
00:18:12♪♪♪
00:18:18Este Hotel Bellagio es donde como parte toda la persona.
00:18:22La primera noche todos vienen a ver el jardín botánico, a ver las fuentes.
00:18:27Es como aquí tienes toda, es como la parte así, es como el centro de todo.
00:18:34O sea, esto tiene que ir.
00:18:36♪♪♪
00:18:41A mí me encanta así que aquí la música de la ciudad es el jazz.
00:18:46Así Frank Sinatra, me encanta.
00:18:49♪♪♪
00:18:56¡Woohoo!
00:18:57♪♪♪
00:19:01Luck be a lady tonight.
00:19:06♪♪♪
00:19:07Carolyn, yo te escuché en el auto que tu proyecto ya en un par de años
00:19:14es ir a la universidad y ir a Washington.
00:19:17¿Volverías a Las Vegas a tu casa o vas a buscar tu nueva casa, no sé,
00:19:21como política, como abogada, como jueza, como diplomática?
00:19:25Las Vegas es mi casa.
00:19:27Si yo decido meterme más en la política, quizás vuelvo a Las Vegas
00:19:32y me quedo aquí y hago mi vida aquí.
00:19:35♪♪♪
00:19:50¿Dónde te imaginas en 10 años entonces?
00:19:52¿Qué es tu sueño?
00:19:54¿Vas a ser gobernadora? ¿Vas a ser senadora?
00:19:58Me gustaría ser senadora o quizás una abogada internacional
00:20:04porque el sueño de ellos es llegar a la Casa Blanca.
00:20:08Se habla como tan normal en mi casa eso que yo le decía el otro día
00:20:12si alguno de los dos llega primero a la Casa Blanca,
00:20:15por último me dan un espacio en una guest house
00:20:19y me decían, mamá, ¿cómo te vamos a tener en la guest house?
00:20:22Es bonito porque yo veo que tu mamá hizo toda su vida para levantarte
00:20:28y ahora tú vas a hacer toda tu vida para llevarla cuando tú surtes sola.
00:20:32♪♪♪
00:20:35Para nosotros es súper normal pensar que cuando tengamos, no sé,
00:20:3930, 35, 40 años, que mi mamá la vamos a estar compartiendo
00:20:43entre las dos casas.
00:20:45♪♪♪
00:20:51-♪♪♪
00:21:11¡Hermosa!
00:21:13♪♪♪
00:21:19Chicas, hoy día fue maravilloso.
00:21:22Conocí su vida y yo pensé que yo venía a conocer
00:21:27solo la asociación chilena, pero conocí mucho más.
00:21:31Conocí una familia hermosa.
00:21:33Conocí una persona que han caído, que se han levantado múltiples veces.
00:21:38Conocí una mamá que está apoyando su familia.
00:21:40Pero yo pensaba que yo venía de viaje,
00:21:42y ustedes son de viaje.
00:21:44Entonces, yo me despido porque creo que me voy a encontrar
00:21:47con ustedes.
00:21:48Tú te vas a Washington, D.C.
00:21:51Y tal vez tú a la Casa Blanca.
00:21:55Y espero encontrarme con ustedes de nuevo.
00:21:58Para nosotros fue un placer.
00:22:00De verdad.
00:22:01♪♪♪
00:22:11♪♪♪
00:22:21♪♪♪
00:22:32-♪♪♪
00:22:34-¡Hola! ¿Qué tal, Fernando?
00:22:36¿Qué reacción, Capi? ¿Cómo estás?
00:22:38Bienvenido.
00:22:40Iba a decir tanto tiempo, pero qué gusto conocerte.
00:22:43Sí, tanto tiempo con ganas de conocerte.
00:22:45Pasa, pasa.
00:22:46Hola, ¿cómo estás?
00:22:48Un gusto, mi querida.
00:22:49Mi hija, Elena, mi sobrina.
00:22:52Hola, ¿cómo estás?
00:22:53Mi mamá.
00:22:54Qué gusto.
00:22:56Bienvenido.
00:22:57Gracias.
00:22:58Quiero invitarte.
00:23:01Vamos a hacer un pisco sour exquisito.
00:23:04Así que tú lo haces.
00:23:06Yo nunca he hecho un pisco sour en Estados Unidos.
00:23:08Es que no tengo pisco.
00:23:10Ahí hay limoncito.
00:23:11¿Y para cuántas personas estamos haciendo pisco sour?
00:23:14Para 1, 2, 3, 10, 5, 7, 8, ¿sabes?
00:23:18Parece como para 10 personas.
00:23:20¿Viven todos acá?
00:23:21Nosotras tres, sí.
00:23:23Elena es mi sobrina.
00:23:25Vive con mi hermana cerquita de acá.
00:23:27¿Y Cholena también?
00:23:28Cholena.
00:23:29Cholena.
00:23:30Nació aquí.
00:23:31Nació aquí.
00:23:32Pero Cholena es...
00:23:33Pero mira, Matilda también nació aquí,
00:23:35pero ella fue made in Chile.
00:23:37¿Sí?
00:23:38Claro.
00:23:39Entonces yo me vine cuando estaba 7 meses embarazada.
00:23:45Hace 27 años, Catherine Molinet,
00:23:48una ex-clan infantil de sábados gigantes,
00:23:51tomó la atrevida decisión de dejarlo todo
00:23:54y mudarse sola a Estados Unidos.
00:23:58Poco a poco,
00:23:59Cathy ha atraído a casi toda su familia a Norteamérica
00:24:02para que sus hijas se sientan como si estuvieran
00:24:05en una típica familia chilena.
00:24:08Hoy en Minneapolis,
00:24:09triunfa con su estudio de fitness dance
00:24:12y sus clases de zumba.
00:24:15Ya, tejemos un poquito para el próximo.
00:24:18¿Qué vamos a hacer?
00:24:20Y ahora, si quieres, mira.
00:24:24Échale nomás.
00:24:26Son las 8 de la mañana.
00:24:30Hoy se armó la fiesta.
00:24:43¿Quién toca piano?
00:24:44La Matilda tocaba un poquito antes.
00:24:46No sé si por ahí está, quiere tocar piano.
00:24:49A lo mejor.
00:25:20¿Qué te gusta de vivir acá?
00:25:22Bueno, al principio me gustaba mucho
00:25:24porque es como más seguro para criar familia.
00:25:29Lo verde, la naturaleza que hay aquí es espectacular.
00:25:33Minnesota, de los 10.000 lagos.
00:25:35Y la gente muy amable.
00:25:37Pero también tengo el estudio,
00:25:39que a veces tengo que llegar antes del tiempo,
00:25:42de fitness y baile.
00:25:44No, no, no.
00:25:46¿Como gimnasia?
00:25:48Es un estudio de baile.
00:25:50Pongámoslo así.
00:25:51Pero también hago clases de fitness.
00:25:53Y abrimos el 2012,
00:25:55pero yo llevo enseñando clases de fitness, chuta,
00:25:59desde el 2004, por ahí,
00:26:02desde que nació Octavia.
00:26:07Tus familias son todo medio de show,
00:26:10carismático, listo para la tele, prendidas.
00:26:14Bueno, la verdad es que mi familia, mi mamá y mis tíos
00:26:19tenían un grupo en Chile cantante,
00:26:22Patricio y las Belindas.
00:26:25Así dice el tren que te lleva al paraíso
00:26:37Así hace el tren que se lleva mi gran amor
00:26:42Y yo desde lejos le grito
00:26:45Regresa pronto
00:26:47Nunca lo he escuchado en la tele, ¿lo viste?
00:26:49Nunca lo he escuchado, pero sí las he escuchado,
00:26:51están en YouTube.
00:26:52¿Y tú cómo llegaste a baile?
00:26:54¿Bailabas algo en Chile?
00:26:56Bailé siempre, tuve clases de baile y todo,
00:26:59pero yo trabajé en Sábado Gigante.
00:27:02¿Tú conoces Sábado Gigante?
00:27:04¿Ha escuchado Don Francisco?
00:27:06¿Porque quien no conoce a Don Francisco?
00:27:08Sí, por supuesto.
00:27:09Yo trabajé jugando al papá y la mamá,
00:27:11que era un segmento dentro de Sábado Gigante,
00:27:15que eran los niños actores.
00:27:17Quiero que me tracen una línea de unión
00:27:19entre el punto A y el punto B.
00:27:26¿Pero cómo se demoró tanto entre un punto y otro?
00:27:29Así me enseñó mi papá, señorita.
00:27:31¿Su papá es profesor?
00:27:32No, es taxista.
00:27:34¡Oh!
00:27:36¡Bravo!
00:27:37¡Bravo!
00:27:39Está bien que haya estudiado en España,
00:27:41pero lo encuentro harto cachetón.
00:27:43¡Oh!
00:27:44Dígame, joven, si mando esta carta por avión,
00:27:47¿llega mañana a Antofagasta?
00:27:49Por supuesto, señora.
00:27:51¿Va?
00:27:52Qué raro, porque ahora está mandando a Concepción.
00:27:56¿Qué te recuerda de tu vida en Chile?
00:28:00Yo soy una persona que lo que me encuentro yo,
00:28:03es una persona que soy fácil de adaptar.
00:28:05Me adapto rápido a las situaciones,
00:28:07a los momentos, a las personas, o qué sé yo.
00:28:11Y creo que en Chile siempre viví mi vida feliz.
00:28:15Por ejemplo, mis papás se separaron cuando yo era muy chica,
00:28:18pero lo supe sobrellevar.
00:28:21Nunca soy una persona que como que juzgo mucho
00:28:25o veo lo negativo para atrás.
00:28:28De todo saco algo positivo.
00:28:30Me pasó esto.
00:28:32Gracias a esto aprendí esto, gracias a esto aprendí esto,
00:28:34gracias a esto.
00:28:35Como uno dice, gracias a todo lo que me ha pasado,
00:28:37soy la persona que soy hoy en día.
00:28:39¿Quién llegó?
00:28:40Mi hermana.
00:28:42¿Cómo se llama?
00:28:43María Paz.
00:28:44María Paz, pasa.
00:28:46Hola, ¿cómo estás?
00:28:48Bien, ¿y tú?
00:28:49Un gusto.
00:28:50Hola.
00:28:55Mira el recibimiento que te damos con nuestro amigo Pire.
00:29:00Hola.
00:29:01Pasa, pasita, pasa.
00:29:03¿Y cuándo llegaste tú a Estados Unidos?
00:29:06Yo llegué...
00:29:09¿Conoce a Charlie?
00:29:10Sí, a Charlie sí lo conozco.
00:29:12No.
00:29:13Yo llegué cuando tenía 12 años.
00:29:1612 años.
00:29:17Y fue tu hermana que fue reclutándote a ti
00:29:21y tu mamá que vinieron acá.
00:29:23Sí.
00:29:24Es como embajadora, como un consulado chileno.
00:29:26Soy embajadora del consulado.
00:29:31¿Pide tú bailar cueca?
00:29:34No.
00:29:35¿Cuántos años viviste en Chile, hombre?
00:29:38Pocos años, 15 nomás.
00:29:40¿Y no bailas cueca?
00:29:42¿Tu bailas hip-hop?
00:29:45Yo bailo hip-hop.
00:29:47Espera, espera, espera.
00:29:50Porque el equivalente a cueca en Estados Unidos es country.
00:29:54Do you two-step?
00:29:55Sí, I two-step.
00:29:57Ese sí.
00:29:58Slow, slow, quick-quick, slow.
00:30:01Slow, quick-quick, slow.
00:30:04Slow, quick-quick, slow.
00:30:07Slow, quick-quick, slow.
00:30:09Slow, slow, slow.
00:30:12Look at me.
00:30:21Buena, buena.
00:30:27How are you?
00:30:29I'm good.
00:30:31Nice to meet you.
00:30:33Let's dance.
00:30:35You arrived just in time.
00:30:39What do you want to dance?
00:30:41I don't know.
00:30:53How long have you been living here?
00:30:57My whole life.
00:30:59I'm 21 years old.
00:31:01I'm 17.
00:31:03What's the name of this part of Minnesota?
00:31:05Ridgefield.
00:31:07Where did you go to school?
00:31:09Right here.
00:31:11Your grandmother told me that you went to school here.
00:31:13Yes.
00:31:15I walked here.
00:31:17When did you realize
00:31:19that the community
00:31:21that your mother had created
00:31:23with your aunt and grandmother
00:31:25was special?
00:31:27When I went to college,
00:31:29I realized
00:31:31that not everyone
00:31:33has this community
00:31:35in the house.
00:31:37My friends told me
00:31:39that I was so lucky
00:31:41to have so many people around me.
00:31:43I wish I had all these people.
00:31:45I wish my birthday parties
00:31:47were full of people.
00:31:49I wish I had people who cared.
00:31:51Your mom
00:31:53probably
00:31:55worked two jobs.
00:31:57Your grandmother
00:31:59worked two jobs.
00:32:01What do you think
00:32:03was the biggest challenge
00:32:05you've overcome?
00:32:07I feel like the ability
00:32:09to have family time
00:32:11as well as being able to work
00:32:13and succeed so much.
00:32:15Balancing life.
00:32:17She balances so much.
00:32:19Constantly juggling.
00:32:21You wouldn't even know
00:32:23what she's going through.
00:32:25She can handle a lot.
00:32:35What have you learned
00:32:37from her in that resilience?
00:32:39Just to remain positive.
00:32:41You're always going to have
00:32:43maybe something that you think
00:32:45is the worst thing in the world,
00:32:47but at the end of the day,
00:32:49you're so good.
00:32:51Your life is so positive
00:32:53because at the end of the day,
00:32:55you have a roof over your head.
00:32:57You have family that loves you.
00:33:19Your daughters told me
00:33:21that their first language
00:33:23was Spanish.
00:33:25I also wanted to teach them
00:33:27that apart from being born
00:33:29somewhere else,
00:33:31they're also Chilean.
00:33:33And I think I did it
00:33:35because now they ask me
00:33:37where I'm from
00:33:39and I tell them
00:33:41I'm from Chile.
00:33:43The other thing
00:33:45my son told me
00:33:47The other thing
00:33:49my son told me
00:33:51well, both of them
00:33:53is
00:33:55I asked him
00:33:57when they appreciated
00:33:59the community
00:34:01the support system
00:34:03that you created
00:34:05around them.
00:34:07And they told me
00:34:09it was Mexican families
00:34:11Mexican girls
00:34:13gringo kids
00:34:15that told him
00:34:17I want my birthday
00:34:19where everyone comes
00:34:21I want my pajama party
00:34:23where my cousins come
00:34:25and my aunts
00:34:27and my grandmother come to pick me up
00:34:29It was very mature to hear
00:34:31how they said that.
00:34:33Look, I'm excited to hear that.
00:34:35I'm excited to hear that.
00:34:37I think so.
00:34:39I think the most important thing
00:34:41for me has always been
00:34:43has always been
00:34:45has always been
00:34:47to not feel alone.
00:34:49That's very important
00:34:51and unfortunately
00:34:53here in the United States
00:34:55we live that a lot.
00:34:57That kids grow up very alone.
00:34:59And I was always reminding them
00:35:01that the luck
00:35:03they had
00:35:05to get home
00:35:07with someone always at home
00:35:09with me or with my mom
00:35:11or with us
00:35:13and that they have a delicious meal
00:35:15made by hand,
00:35:17that it's natural food
00:35:19that they're not eating some box
00:35:21and that all the love
00:35:23that we've given each other
00:35:25is priceless
00:35:37This is what I think
00:35:39I'm a person of a lot of faith
00:35:41I'm a person that
00:35:43why should I worry about the rest
00:35:45if tomorrow maybe I'll be fine
00:35:47and no matter how difficult the situation is
00:35:49as I always say
00:35:51the only thing that has no solution
00:35:53is death
00:35:55the rest, everything comes and goes
00:35:57money, everything comes and goes
00:35:59people get stuck in the material
00:36:01and in the end the material
00:36:03comes and goes
00:36:05I added a song
00:36:07to my Zumba class
00:36:09which is salsa
00:36:11and the lyrics say
00:36:13if tomorrow I die
00:36:15I won't take anything
00:36:23Welcome to CM's Fitness and Dance
00:36:31People ask
00:36:33what is CM
00:36:35Welcome to CM's Fitness and Dance
00:36:39Welcome to CM's Fitness and Dance
00:36:47People ask
00:36:49what is CM
00:36:51My name
00:36:53Welcome to CM's Fitness and Dance
00:36:55She is Stephanie
00:36:57I have to go change
00:36:59I have to change but I'll be back
00:37:01You guys in good hands?
00:37:03What does this place mean to you?
00:37:05Oh boy
00:37:07This is my home away from home
00:37:09This is a big part of my heart
00:37:11I've seen some
00:37:13good things out of myself
00:37:15that have come from down here
00:37:17to up here
00:37:19and I've heard a thank for it
00:37:21in the community that we have
00:37:23Okay so today
00:37:25we have a super special class
00:37:27because there's people from Chile
00:37:29visiting
00:37:31and
00:37:35I feel happiness
00:37:37I want people to feel
00:37:39what I feel
00:37:41I want them to feel what it's like to have a good time
00:37:43what it's like to disconnect
00:37:45sometimes they scream
00:37:47because that's hard
00:38:01Music
00:38:25When I manage
00:38:27with my dance, with this Zumba class
00:38:29that you guys disconnect
00:38:31that you're moms
00:38:33that tomorrow I have to do this
00:38:35when I achieve that moment
00:38:37with you guys here
00:38:39that's my mission
00:38:41mission accomplished
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00:40:11Just in case
00:40:13I do my classes in English, Spanish
00:40:15and I also do some Mandarin
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00:40:45Okay guys, we're going to do a quick warm-up
00:40:47Okay? So, ready
00:40:49set, extend your arms
00:40:51We'll see you in a little bit.
00:40:51Peace.
00:40:52Peace.
00:40:53Peace.
00:40:54Peace.
00:41:03Good, good job.
00:41:05What is she teaching them right now?
00:41:06So right now she's working on stances.
00:41:11So how do you do this?
00:41:13We take one foot.
00:41:14Does it matter which one?
00:41:15Nope.
00:41:17Cause we, you can do it on both sides.
00:41:18And then this back foot.
00:41:20I can't hang out here.
00:41:22♪♪
00:41:26The face of the lady in the front row
00:41:28is very serious.
00:41:30♪♪
00:41:34Okay.
00:41:35Hip.
00:41:36Good.
00:41:38And...
00:41:39I find it funny that there is a woman
00:41:42teaching martial arts classes
00:41:45of an art that I never knew
00:41:48in the center of the U.S.
00:41:50in Denver, Colorado,
00:41:51with teachers who have been
00:41:53at the institute for more than 15 years.
00:41:56It's not only difficult,
00:41:58but all the Tagalog names are in Chinese,
00:42:01which I didn't understand at all.
00:42:03So I had to translate it into English.
00:42:09It's, I think, different for every person.
00:42:11You have a lot of folks who
00:42:14really got inspired by their fitness self.
00:42:16But there's other folks who like
00:42:18just the tradition and the history of Shaolin Kung Fu.
00:42:21♪♪
00:42:26I think for most people,
00:42:27what it really speaks to is that
00:42:29they don't like the gym lifestyle.
00:42:31This takes the whole body,
00:42:33the whole spirit, and it makes it.
00:42:36He said something interesting.
00:42:38He said that he thinks that
00:42:40a lot of his students come here
00:42:43because they don't want the gym environment.
00:42:46They want peace, or they want discipline,
00:42:49or they want methodology,
00:42:51or they want technique.
00:42:54But they don't want that muscle culture.
00:42:57They want the culture of the head
00:42:59along with the muscles.
00:43:01♪♪
00:43:09Amitabha.
00:43:10¿Buen grupo?
00:43:11Sí.
00:43:12¿Descansaste harto?
00:43:14Sí, se me hizo cortita la clase igual.
00:43:17¿Lloveres para ellos? No.
00:43:19No.
00:43:20♪♪
00:43:26¿Partiste a los 12 años?
00:43:28¿Dónde partiste, acá?
00:43:30En Arica.
00:43:31♪♪
00:43:34Pamela Bradford dejó Arica cuando tenía 25 años
00:43:38con el deseo de perfeccionar su inglés
00:43:40y con la esperanza de enganchar el amor
00:43:42que en Chile aún no había conocido.
00:43:45♪♪
00:43:48En Estados Unidos formó una familia
00:43:50y hoy lucha para que sus hijos
00:43:52mantengan algún vínculo con su país.
00:43:55Se erradicó en Fort Collins, Colorado,
00:43:58donde intenta dedicarse a su real pasión,
00:44:01el Shaolin Kung Fu.
00:44:03♪♪
00:44:05¿Y profesora en Denver, Colorado?
00:44:08¿Hace cuántos años vives acá?
00:44:10Bueno, me vine a los Estados Unidos en 1996.
00:44:13Aquí en Colorado en el 98.
00:44:15♪♪
00:44:17¿Eres profesora en Chile también?
00:44:19Yo soy profesora en Chile.
00:44:20Soy representante del estilo Shaolin Kung Fu.
00:44:23Get excited!
00:44:26Yo nunca había escuchado de esa arte marcial.
00:44:29¿Es conocido?
00:44:30Lo que pasa es que generalmente se dice Kung Fu,
00:44:33pero Kung Fu tiene varios estilos.
00:44:35Y el Kung Fu está el Kung Fu del norte y el Kung Fu del sur.
00:44:40Entonces sí es conocido y era conocido,
00:44:43pero era una mezcla en Chile hace muchos años.
00:44:46Era como entre karate, taekwondo y todo eso.
00:44:49Y ahora como se ha masificado más
00:44:51y se ha hecho más posible ir a China
00:44:55por esa hora se dice Shaolin Kung Fu o Shaolin Wushu.
00:45:00¿Tú entiendes las palabras en chino?
00:45:02Un poco sí.
00:45:03Sí.
00:45:04Y fuiste a China también.
00:45:05Sí.
00:45:06♪♪
00:45:11¿Y tú vives en qué parte de Denver?
00:45:13Ahora yo me mudé a Fort Collins.
00:45:16Viví en Denver 15 años.
00:45:18¿Y sola?
00:45:19No, estoy con mi marido y mis hijos.
00:45:22¿Podemos ir a conocerlos?
00:45:24Sí, yo te invito allá a Fort Collins.
00:45:26Es súper bonito.
00:45:27Te dejo cambiar y vamos para allá.
00:45:29Ya pues, ¿okay?
00:45:30Nos vemos.
00:45:31♪♪
00:45:39Hola.
00:45:40Permiso.
00:45:41¿Cómo estás?
00:45:42Qué bonito tu casa.
00:45:44Mi primera vez en Fort Collins.
00:45:46♪♪
00:45:49¿Cómo se llama este amigo?
00:45:50El perrito se llama Shaolin.
00:45:51Shaolin.
00:45:52Shaolin, es como el templo de Shaolin,
00:45:54pero es de mi papá y mis papás quisieron ponerle Shaolin también.
00:45:59♪♪
00:46:06¿A qué edad llegaste a Estados Unidos?
00:46:10A los 25.
00:46:11♪♪
00:46:15Me vine sin conocer a nadie.
00:46:17Yo dije, quiero salir del país.
00:46:20I wanted to learn better English and I was going to go to Canada but a friend told me
00:46:23to get a visa to the United States, and I don't know how, but I did.
00:46:27And I came without knowing anyone.
00:46:29And I started exploring different places.
00:46:31And what was your first job when you got here?
00:46:34It wasn't Kung Fu.
00:46:35No, it wasn't Kung Fu.
00:46:37I did everything, even security guard.
00:46:40The year I got here, I was about to go back to Chile because I said, no, I miss my family,
00:46:49and I met my husband.
00:46:51He fell in love with me.
00:46:56I hadn't realized it.
00:46:57And within that month, we went out about three times, and he asked me to marry him, and we got married.
00:47:04A few dates?
00:47:06We've been married for 27 years.
00:47:09And you spoke English well?
00:47:12A little.
00:47:13I mean, I spoke better than a lot of people, but not that well.
00:47:17Also, at the ceremony, I remember the wedding, they married us and told me a lot of things,
00:47:23and one part said, do you accept your awful husband?
00:47:27And it was your lawful husband.
00:47:29It was something like that.
00:47:30I understood awful.
00:47:32You heard disgusting, and they said your husband legally.
00:47:37Legally.
00:47:38Correct.
00:47:39So I was like, ah!
00:47:40Your disgusting husband.
00:47:42It was like crazy, but it was a lot of legal terminology.
00:47:47If your children are gringos, are Chileans?
00:47:50I was born in the United States.
00:47:53I have two children.
00:47:55Children!
00:48:00What is it like being raised Chilean mom, gringo dad?
00:48:05That's my family.
00:48:06I'm the gringo dad.
00:48:07My wife is Chilean, and we have a seven-year-old.
00:48:09So what's it like being in a bi-national, bi-cultural family?
00:48:13Well, you kind of have to navigate the cultural differences and things like that,
00:48:18because one side of the family does other things.
00:48:20But I think it's nice, because you get to see the two facets of your family.
00:48:25You get to see how both cultures behave and stuff like that.
00:48:29Do you speak Spanish?
00:48:30Yes.
00:48:31Where did you learn? At home, traveling?
00:48:34At home, we learned to speak Spanish.
00:48:37And Chile? Do you know Chile?
00:48:39Yes.
00:48:40Which part?
00:48:41The north.
00:48:42The north.
00:48:43And for how long? How was it?
00:48:46We didn't stay for two years, and we went to school there.
00:48:51It was elementary school.
00:48:54So we didn't stay there for, I think, sixth or seventh grade.
00:49:01Was it hard?
00:49:02No, it wasn't that hard.
00:49:04And did you make friends?
00:49:05Yes, yes, we made a lot of friends.
00:49:08And do you ever imagine coming back to live in Chile, or do you feel very colorful?
00:49:13If I'm going to live in a place, it's going to be the United States,
00:49:16but maybe one day I can go visit to see the south and travel a little there.
00:49:26Are those your guys' nice cars out there?
00:49:27Yeah.
00:49:28How did you get into car collecting?
00:49:30Our dad.
00:49:31Your dad loves cars?
00:49:32Mm-hmm.
00:49:33Do you know how to work on them as well?
00:49:34Yeah, I do.
00:49:38Let's go.
00:49:52Do you always collect more and more cars?
00:49:55Yes, from the older ones and the younger ones.
00:49:58Dad's hobby has become the kids' hobby.
00:50:01Yeah.
00:50:03This is my comfort zone.
00:50:11If you notice here, Bob has his nose exposed.
00:50:16I tell women, especially if someone wants to attack them and their life is in danger,
00:50:23one of the most fragile things is the nose.
00:50:28So, you don't even have to know how to punch.
00:50:31You just hit right there.
00:50:33Even with your hand open.
00:50:34Bam!
00:50:35And that's it.
00:50:36So, you start pulling if you're a woman.
00:50:40For example, if you come here, and it depends on what you want to do to me.
00:50:46If you want to attack me.
00:50:47I'm going to grab you.
00:50:48For example, you want to grab me there.
00:50:50You have me.
00:50:51I'm not going to kick you in the face.
00:50:54I'm not going to kick you in the face.
00:50:56Right?
00:50:57It's like...
00:50:58There.
00:51:01I can reach you.
00:51:02I can reach you.
00:51:03I haven't kicked you, but I can reach you.
00:51:04So, someone is there.
00:51:07Someone grabs you and wants to do something.
00:51:10I throw you.
00:51:11And I throw you with a kick.
00:51:15And then I throw you back.
00:51:18And you're there.
00:51:25KUNG FU
00:51:31But when you got into Kung Fu, was it because of that?
00:51:35No, it was because my dad...
00:51:37By chance, he met a teacher.
00:51:40And he invited him to join the class.
00:51:43And that was in Chile?
00:51:44Yes.
00:51:45And here you specialized?
00:51:47Yes.
00:51:48And you came back to Chile to teach, too?
00:51:51Or to specialize?
00:51:53No, I came back to Chile to get my representation.
00:51:59I did the test in front of the General Direction of National Mobilization.
00:52:04And I came out as a representative of Shaolin Kung Fu.
00:52:07I am the only female representative of that style.
00:52:15What do your children think?
00:52:16I know they are proud of me.
00:52:18I know they are.
00:52:19Because, in fact, this is what we have done all our lives.
00:52:23KUNG FU
00:52:54What tranquility! I didn't have that life in Denver.
00:52:59No, no.
00:53:01Fort Collin is super cute.
00:53:04The people are super kind.
00:53:06It has all the good things of the city.
00:53:09But avoiding the traffic, the madness, the crime.
00:53:16It's like much quieter.
00:53:19And I love it.
00:53:23CHILE
00:53:27And how was that trip to Chile?
00:53:31At that time it was good.
00:53:34It was in 2015.
00:53:36It was all quiet, relatively like me.
00:53:39I remembered Chile.
00:53:41I was there until 2017, 2018.
00:53:45How did you convince your husband to go to Chile?
00:53:49What did you do with the house?
00:53:51We sold it.
00:53:52You sold the house?
00:53:54Yes, we sold the house.
00:53:56And how did you convince him?
00:53:58With a lot of patience and perseverance.
00:54:00I think that's one of my characteristics.
00:54:02I told him that I wanted to go to Chile so that the children could experience the education there.
00:54:07And he told me, look, it's still too soon, but if in five years you still think the same,
00:54:13okay, we're going to do it.
00:54:15I think he said it thinking that I wasn't going to do it.
00:54:18And I waited, waited, waited, and five years passed and I told him, I haven't changed my mind.
00:54:25Okay, I gave you my word of honor, I'm going to do it.
00:54:29Because he is as good as his word.
00:54:32So we started the work, we started doing everything, putting everything in a container,
00:54:36all the things in the house, and putting the house in mint.
00:54:38I imagine that your children went there 100% gringo.
00:54:42Was it a cultural shock for them?
00:54:45Yes, it was a super strong shock for the children.
00:54:48At least they were still relatively young, they were 10 and 12 years old.
00:54:54Was it a mother's decision?
00:54:56Was it an internal decision of yours that you had to meet your roots again?
00:55:00Yes, it was an internal decision and it was a long process,
00:55:05because I began to realize that I was getting depressed,
00:55:10that my children didn't really have a connection of what it was to be Chilean,
00:55:17or what it was to have a Chilean mother.
00:55:20You hear things, you see them, but you don't understand them.
00:55:24So I was getting depressed and I felt that,
00:55:28not so much for their benefit, but also for mine,
00:55:32that my children would feel that and explore and live what Chilean education was,
00:55:37what the Chilean world was, that it was going to help me
00:55:42and that it was going to help them also in their lives.
00:55:45How was it for you to be a mother?
00:55:47Was there a cultural shock for you in the first month?
00:55:51It's hard for one because you get used to the way it is here.
00:55:55In fact, it took me at least one or two months to get used to not saying,
00:56:00excuse me, I'm sorry, because sometimes...
00:56:03Too polite, right?
00:56:05Of course. It's hard for one to be away from their country.
00:56:09It's like...
00:56:11I don't know how to say it.
00:56:12Of course. It's hard for one to be away from their country.
00:56:16It's like...
00:56:18There are things that you always have attachments to your country.
00:56:21There are the housewives, there is the neighbor, everything is the same.
00:56:24It's another relationship.
00:56:26I perceive that you were a mother,
00:56:30before being one of the most expert women in Kung Fu,
00:56:35in Chile, in the United States, you were a strong mother.
00:56:38You made the decision to leave
00:56:41the roots that you made with your husband,
00:56:44the roots that you made with your children,
00:56:46to ensure that your children also feel Chilean.
00:56:50When do you think your children will realize
00:56:54the effort you have made for them?
00:56:57I think it will be probably when they reach 30, 40 years old.
00:57:03I am well aware of the mental processes of maturation
00:57:08and I also have a memory of my memories of how I was at 20, 30, 40 years old.
00:57:14And sometimes you are not very grateful at the beginning
00:57:17of all the efforts your parents make.
00:57:19For example, it was hard for me to understand what my parents did for me.
00:57:22And in fact, a lot of what I am is for my parents too.
00:57:26For the education they gave me, for the knowledge, for the strength,
00:57:30and the closeness we have as a clan.
00:57:33That's why I brought them too.
00:57:34And that same concept, I know that I am passing it on to my children.
00:57:50Pamela, I congratulate you because we started the day,
00:57:57we started our friendship by seeing your physical strength,
00:58:00your strength of discipline, your strength as an instructor.
00:58:05But I feel that I got to know your inner strength,
00:58:08your strength as a mother.
00:58:10I chose a Chilean mother for my son too.
00:58:16And I believe in the same way that your husband chose you.
00:58:20And what you shared, what your husband feels for you,
00:58:25and what my wife feels for you.
00:58:28It's beautiful what you have and what you have done here.
00:58:33You are a contribution to this state, this city, and the country where you were born.
00:58:39Thank you, thank you.
00:58:41Thank you so much.
00:58:56CHILE
00:59:04Three boys leave everything to become the best in the world.
00:59:13There is no option where I do not fulfill my life's desire in my life.
00:59:20I was in Chile, I was one of the best.
00:59:22When I got here, I lost everything, I started from scratch.
00:59:27It is the most important circus in the world.
00:59:32Why is it the most famous? Why is it number one?
00:59:34Who do you think is number two?
00:59:36Ugariz is number two.
00:59:44Today I can say that I am playing in the best team in the world.
00:59:52CHILE