Abstract
This study will reveal the sociolinguistic perception that Peruvians living in Santiago de Chile have regarding their own dialect of Spanish in contact with the Chilean dialect. To collect the data, a direct survey was applied on 30 people that met the requirements of being born in Peru, having at least five years of residence in Chile and being over 18 years old. Among the findings that were obtained it was revealed that, according to survey respondents, there is a paradoxical sociolinguistic situation: while Chileans considered valuable the Peruvian variety of Spanish, making it more prestigious than the local dialect, Peruvians feel socially diminished when receiving mistreatment and discrimination by Chileans. Therefore, Peruvians try to accomodate to Chilean Spanish and they leave aside their own variety, in order to go unnoticed and fit in the Chilean society.
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