The Use of Internet Technology to Mitigate Conflict between Mapuche and Non-Mapuche Students in a University Context

In Latin America we have been, by the process of Conquest and colonization, the Other of Europe; and by economic and political domination, the Other of the so-called first world. But we have been an invisible, denied, violated Other. Chile is experiencing an intercultural conflict, and it is pathological in Latin America. A conflict between Mapuche and the Chilean state, of socio-historical realities in the conscious social collectivity. The roots of this conflict apparently stem from the historical territorial demands of the Mapuches, since the time of the Spanish Conquest, over geographical territories, which today are administered by transnational forestry companies, and they constitute an important economic source for the Chilean state. This conflict has become more intense since 1990, and the degree of violence has increased, especially in the Ninth and Tenth regions of Chile. The problem of the intersubjectivity of social relations lacks otherness from one to the other, both Mapuche and non-Mapuche. Therefore, this has led to generate hatred, fights, envy, and racism, which permeate deeply today, causing instability in the social order in the Mapuche conflict zone. The hypothesis: is it possible, through personal meta-cognitive acceptance supported by technology, intersubjectivity (Otherness) can be tuned in social relations to reduce conflict (Mapuche and non-Mapuche), to advance towards the constitution of a better social coexistence? A mechanism oriented to cooperative learning is proposed, and it is based on theory and instruments of social cognitive theory Bandura, social theory of Schütz, contributions of Dussel, about the concealment of the Other, as well as the triple concordance. There the collaboration with technology is highlighted for the intersubjective tuning of otherness in the social area. The advances achieved postulate technology allows mitigating the Mapuche and non-Mapuche conflict. Group work based on the model of otherness allows conflict to be lowered.