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Indagacion del choteo was initially a lecture given by Jorge Manach in 1928. In the revision in 1955 the author afirms that, to a large extent, choteo or humor is a vestige of the past. However, a thorough reading of Indagacion del choteo is enough to constitute that choteo is still a characteristic of the social psychology of Cuba, even in our time. In the words of Manach: If we were to ask the average Cuban, the Cuban of the streets, what he understands humor to be, he will give us a simplistic version, but one that is close enough to being a definition because it logically implicates all that we actually found contained in the most typical manifestations of the phenomenon. The choteo - he will tell us - consists of not taking anything seriously. We could use up/finish off all a little more investigation, and it will become clear to us - with a phrase that did not use to express itself before ladies, which I ask you not to mention once we leave here - it will become clear to us that humor consists of making a joke of everything. Indagacion del choteo does not stay in this mere definition of the term, but goes much farther out and digs much deeper in the collective consciousness of the Cuban nation and its fundamental elements. Indagacion del choteo fue inicialmente una conferencia pronunciada por Jorge Manach en 1928. En la revision de 1955 el autor afirma que en gran medida el choteo es un vestigio del pasado. Sin embargo, basta una lectura minuciosa de Indagacion del choteo para constatar que el choteo es aun en nuestros dias un rasgo de la psicologia social de Cuba. En palabras de Manach: Si le pedimos, pues, al cubano medio, al cubano de la calle , que nos diga lo que entiende por choteo, nos dara una version simplista, pero que se acerca bastante a ser una definicion porque implica logicamente todo lo que de hecho hallamos contenido en las manifestaciones mas tipicas del fenomeno. El choteo –nos dira– consiste en no tomar nada en serio . Podemos apurar todavia un poco mas la averiguacion, y nos aclarara –con una frase que no suele expresarse ante senoras, pero que yo os pido venia para mencionar lo menos posible– nos aclarara que el choteo consiste en tirarlo todo a relajo . Indagacion del choteo no se queda en esta mera definicion del termino, va mucho mas alla y escarba en la conciencia colectiva de la nacion cubana y en sus elementos fundacionales.
