Our politicians and representatives

We heard the statement we want to talk about today two years ago. Nevertheless, it is still fresh in our memory and we remember every single word the person who told us said. It happened in an ordinary Spanish class. Supposedly, the primary aim of this class is to help us improve our writing and analysis skills. However, we do not know why, but we frequently end up discussing issues in class which are not related to the subject. Anyway, that day we wondered off the subject again and this time we talked about Colombian’s politics. At first, we did not pay much attention. Nonetheless, the teacher managed to grab everybody's attention with one single statement. He told us that the son of a very influential Colombian politician had said to the media that the first time he had heard a song in Spanish was when he was in his early twenties as his education had been mainly based on the North American culture. We all were amazed, disgusted and concerned to find it out since the first thought that crossed our mind was that if not even the politicians we entrust our country, culture and national identity to care about their own motherland, then why sould the general population do?