The building of society is done not only by evaluating the present or planning the future. A natural exercise that the majority of developed societies have already realized has been to inquire about the type of traditions and customs that surge through time, assimilating little by little, and how these end up conditioning the form in which countries confront the new challenges of modernity. The case of Chile in this sense is garish, considering that a consensus doesn't exist with respect to which traditional features lead us to conform as a society, in fact, many have dared to say, given this situation, that we are a country without identity. The present article is a reflection that looks to support the debate raised beforehand through an exhaustive revision of the bibliography that exists with respect to our country. Even if a final thesis cannot sustain itself in regards to the problem, at least the state of the situation will be discussed, which will eventually allow for an organized continuation of the current presentation.La construcción de una sociedad se hace no sólo evaluando el presente o planificando el futuro. Un ejercicio natural que la mayorí­a de las sociedades desarrolladas ya ha realizado, ha sido indagar sobre qué tipo de tradiciones y costumbres que van surgiendo en el tiempo, se van poco a poco asimilando, y cómo estas a la larga condicionan la forma en que los paí­ses se enfrentan a los nuevos desafí­os de la modernidad. En el caso de Chile, no existe un consenso respecto a qué rasgos tradicionales nos conforman como sociedad, incluso muchos se han atrevido a decir, dada esta situación, que somos un paí­s sin identidad.El presente artí­culo es una reflexión que busca aportar al debate antes planteado, a través de una revisión de la bibliografí­a que existe al respecto en nuestro paí­s. Si bien no se sostiene una tesis final respecto de la problemática, se plantea un estado de la situación.