What if?

"Chile as a dependent country and one that swears loyalty  to the Monarchy of Spain"

Some classes ago, we were talking about the elaborations of maps and how these maps attracted or focused attention toward certain countries to make them look greater and more important, and at one point Miss Cardenas asked us what would have happened if these maps had been developed in reverse, if Chile was up instead of down, and recalling the exposition about the countries of the Commonwealth by my classmates just a few days ago, it came to my mind a similar question to which Miss Cardenas made us​​:



"What if Chile were part or swear loyalty to the Spanish Crown as well as the Commonwealth countries swear loyalty to the British Crown?"

After thinking about this for a while my first thought was "yeah, the idea of having kings and queens sounds pretty cool", and immediately after that I started thinking about the pros and cons about being under the rule of a parliamentary monarchy having the king as the head of state, of course the most of the commonwealth nations are former colonies of England, nonetheless, they are independent countries so they have their own political system and just 16 of them recognizes the Queen as their head of state, following this idea, if Chile is to be part of Spain, would it be while it still was a colony of Spain or would it be after the independence war? In the first case and after the national referendum of 1978, Chile would be just another autonomous community just as Navarre, Aragon, Asturias and the rest of the autonomous communities from Spain, but Chile would still be part of Spain as a whole. In the second case, I believe that the former Spanish colonies would form something like the "Commonwealth of southern american nations", but being independent and autonomous from Spain.

And so I started thinking about how would affect us culturally, in both cases, being in some way "connected" to Spain, would we be still speaking the so called "chilean-spanish"? what about our accent? would we be still considerate as thieves? would there be the same restriction to enter to Spain as chileans have it today? Would we be a more "advance" country by having the direct support and help from Spain and the countries of this southern commonwealth? Anyways I believe that now days we are more connected to the english-speaking world rather to our so called motherland, chileans tend to see Spain as a old enemy and oppressor, who will conquer us again just given the opportunity.