Well, in certain African majority Muslim countries, Somalia, for instance, female genital mutilation and spousal abuse is the norm. Not the exception, the norm. So, discovering that Somalia's most renowned Male poets also happened to be woman-abusing female genital mutilation supporters would not, by definition, be some sort of slander upon the general populace of Somalia, it would simply mean that their most popular poets are also representative of the general populations attitudes towards such things. I don't know what the general attitude of Chilean men during the time of Pablo Neruda's heyday towards rape or spousal abuse was, so I'm not going to make the automatic assumption that it is slanderous towards Chileans somehow to view his attitudes as normal in that regard. I don't know. I wasn't there.

The statement is fairly self-explanatory.

Unless Chilean culture is precisely what Pablo Neruda represents.