<P> Huasos are an important part of Chilean folkloric culture and are a vital part of parades, fiestas, holidays, and popular music . The dancing of the cueca in which the coy china is courted by the persistent huaso, both traditionally attired, is de rigueur on such occasions . </P> <P> In Chile, the term huaso or ahuasado (in a huaso way) is also used disparagingly to refer to people without manners or lacking the sophistication of an urbanite, akin to US English redneck . </P> <P> Various theories are commonly advanced: from the Quechua wakcha (hispanicized as huacho) meaning orphan, not belonging to a community, hence free and homeless, an important aspect of the huaso / gaucho myth, or alternatively from the Quechua wasu, meaning either the back of an animal, or rough and rustic . Moreover the word guaso / a is used in Andalusian and American Spanish with the last sense . </P> <P> It appears that a form of folk etymology has operated to conflate the contrasting identities of the huaso, viewed as both a free horseman (implying some wealth and nobility) and an unsophisticated country bumpkin . Both senses can be observed in Chilean usage . </P>

What is the purpose of the huaso festival