I’m visiting Merida, Yucatán right now with my family (one of my favorite cities) and it feels very different to be here when there’s a looming, unnecessary tariff / trade war. I’m feeling really deeply ashamed for my country. What’re you guys feeling when interacting with USAmericans right now?

I was born and raised in Canada but I have gone to El Salvador with my family on vacation but I think most el salvadorians are like go back to Canada this our country.

This very artificial weird "latino" accent that's present on latino characters like Ivy from Deadlock, some characters from valorant and some overwatch characters. That consists on like a very broken and odd sounding way of speaking English. I don't know what is this weird accent called and I absolutely hate it because of how cringe it sounds.

Multiple native Spanish speakers here have no idea but some say it has to do with video games and/or being lazy.

Excluding your own.

I'm visiting for a week and truly wish I could stay longer!

I'm a tall brown skinned (darker than most, unless they are afro Peruvian themselves) black woman with my hair in locs that are dyed copper. So I don't look at all like the local population. I 100% was expected to not be found attractive here (no issue, like I said I just know I'm the opposite of the other women here).

Often local men will try to sell me something and if I decline they will then move to asking where I'm from. I'll tell them where in the USA I'm from and they'll compliment my style, welcome me to Peru and sometimes start making small talk. This has happened in Lima, Cuzco and Aguas calientes so far.

I've also had a tour guide tell me I look like an Inca princess 😭. In Lima I got LOTS of stares from men and women a like. And in Cuzco I've had a few local women tell me I'm very beautiful, which I was very flattered!

Is this how most Peruvians welcome gringos? In Mexico I got some stares but nothing seemed overtly romantic.

Every time somebody uploads a meme about mestizaje, there's always comments that say that the Spaniards raped all indigenous women in the Americas and that all Latinos are a product of rape.

Is this true? I wasn't alive in the 1500s so I don't know.

And are you fan of it? Is it popular in your country? I know in Venezuela they call a similar drink Chicha. Why?

Follow up question: why is Jamaica called that? In Jamaica, they drink “cereal” which is from hibiscus but it’s only drunken on holidays with rum

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-American_Treaty_of_Reciprocal_Assistance

I have found a few in Costa Rica, do you know of any that are good?

I do not aim to throw more hate to Emilia Pérez — which is much deserved and needed, but already vastly taken care of online. I am just wondering how much of the film do you guys could actually understand.

It was recently released here in Argentina, with big theater chains informing even the Spanish spoken parts include subtitles. This is extremely unusual in theaters here. I become curious and decided to watch the film. In my defense, I made sure not to pay a cent for it.

I already knew Selena Gomez' lines were going to be undecipherable. But to my surprise I had trouble understanding other characters too. For example, in 01:02:39 a convict explains where a body is. Although I understand the global meaning, I cannot follow his words one by one. I wonder if this is another foreign actor speaking broken Spanish. I also have trouble understanding Karla Sofía Gascón and Zoe Saldaña when singing. They both speak Spanish but at times they singing their voices become too whisper-like.

I wonder how much of my inability to understand is just me not being familiar with Mexican and Central American dialects or whether, by not understanding the language they were editing, the crew made poor technical decisions.

In the US, the borders between different regions are often vague. People disagree about where the Midwest starts and stops, or whether Texas is part of the South, or whether Pennsylvania is part of the northeast. Lots of states straddle two or more regions. Especially in the eastern half of the country, there are fewer natural borders so it feels more like a gradient from one region to the next.

Is your country like this, or is there more of a consensus about the borders of each region?

Is it more common to see a wealthy man with a poorer woman or a wealthy woman with a poorer man?

Hi all! I’m visiting Mexico at some point in the future and I take a medication that I can only have the brand name version of. If I run out am I able to buy brand name instead of generic?

Cheers!

For example, in the second case, there is strong tourism in Brazil to "cold weather" cities such as Gramado and Campos do Jordão, which attract many Brazilians but not necessarily many people from outside, or to cities with amusement parks in Penha or Vinhedo.

In the first case, there are a number of natural parks and historical cities that are very interesting and attractive, but where you will hardly see anyone speaking anything other than Portuguese.

What would Puebla be considered?

I understand that at first-glance, this question is loaded and invites the standard lines of criticisms: “because they are different”, “because they have their own cultures”, “we aren’t all the same”.

This is quite obvious 🤓, but, I have lived on and off in Latin America for the last three years, and the difference in between countries is shocking.

I have lived in Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Mexico, Guatemala, and now Honduras.

The first four countries on my list possess a vibrant tradition of critique, literature, and progressive movements that involve philosophy, social sciences, and poetry.

The last two are not only behind, but these ideas might as well be non-existent. I currently live in Honduras teaching English, and everytime I have attempted to gift a book to a student, an Uber driver I have utilized more than a couple of times, a worker at the coffee shop I visit, they tell me the same thing “we don’t read here”.

But it’s not just a statement, it’s a point of prideful confession. There is a sense of being proud that cell-phone video games & social media play a more significant role in their lives than reading—whether for pleasure or to understand deeper themes makes no difference.

Here in Honduras I have found maybe 2 bookstores that are not evangelical, in Guatemala I found none. In Chile I couldn’t walk more than 1 block without running into a book store that offered all sorts of clubs and activities.

I understand not everyone is academically inclined, nor should they be. However, when I look at the places I have been and compare them to a culture that couldn’t be more different, Iraq, who boasts the highest level of self-identified readers of poetry and literature (right behind Iran), I can’t help but wonder “what in the fuck is going on here?”

Please understand I am not shaming nor bullying, I want to know both the opinions of Hondurans and Guatemalans here as well as other Latinos who may have an insight to why things are so different between the countries cultures in this regard.

Also I understand I made some grammar mistakes…can’t do much about that, phone keyboard is broken 🤪

I’m American and noticed in comments around Instagram, Chileans make up cities in different countries that don’t exist. Like one I saw was The Union, Minnesota… that city doesn’t exist.

I was wondering whether other Latin Americans have faced with mood or emotional (in general any mental change) changes during winter while living (eiter visiting) in a foreign country.

Based on my experience of living in Russia for like 8 years, during this time I have rarely seen any changes in my mental stability due to the weather. I do know of locals that have a hard time coping with it durign each winter season, specially those with some sort of depression.

I saw my mental health affected once due to having cought a terrible ear infection and not having my family around chearing me up as it used to be, during those events the grade of shading made myt mental health even worst!, but that was due to the context, in general I don't see winter affecting my mental health, I actually love winter time.

At the beginning of this winter season I started taking vitamin D3 (due to my levels of it being SUPER LOW) and it makes a huge difference, you get your energy levels pumped up

I matched with this Argentinean woman and we have been messaging nonstop for a week. Today things got a bit spicy after exchanging photos and she's been half jokingly saying things like getting married and having kids.

I am fully aware of scammers, opportunistic women, or even women that work with gangs to extort men. But she def doesn't feel that way.

Are there some latinas that get attachy and behave this way very quickly without meeting in person yet?

I will begin with my own theory.

I spent a few months in Bolivia last year, mostly volunteering and some of it travelling. I visited many places: Uyuni, Sucre, Santa Cruz, Samaipata, Cochabamba, La Paz and Copacabana. I liked Bolivia, has beautiful nature and some nice cities. And surprisingly safe for such a poor country. But I did not love it, because it was undeveloped and I encountered numerous problems as a result.

Infrastructure is poor, so is the food hygiene. Roads weren't the best and I got awful food poisoning in La Paz, after having spent over a year in Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Colombia before that without getting food poisoning. I met many other foreigners who experienced the same. When I saw my Bolivian friends avoiding certain foods in markets telling me they didn't want to get sick, I knew it wasn't just a foreigner thing, it could impact locals too. My poos were never really that solid during my entire time in Bolivia - a few days after I got to Peru, they turned solid again. Strange coincidence, if it was one. Might have been worth the trips to the bathroom if the food had been tasty. Bolivian food is average at best, even in its culinary capital Cochabamba I was far from impressed.

Then there is the political instability and protests. Makes Chile and Argentina look like first world countries by comparison. Not just geographically concentrated protests like the ones you usually see across LATAM. In Bolivia, when they protest, they often block every major road in the whole country. I got caught in one of those and got stuck for days in Sucre. Worse places to be stuck in, I suppose. I felt worse for locals whose businesses were impacted though, the places I volunteered at were also hit badly by protests. I've never seen other LATAM countries block every major road in the country to protest, maybe that happened in the past, but in Bolivia it's been the norm even recently. The French love a protest and even they don't go that far! Just seems extreme to me, and when I was there, many were wondering whether the national blockades did more harm than good.

Thing that frustrated me the most was most Bolivians' acceptance of mediocrity as the norm. Most seemed to have a mentality of "meh, this is how it is in Bolivia 🤷‍♂️" instead of wanting real change to improve their country. I doubt Mexicans, Chileans and Argentinians would have such an attitude, most people I met from those countries would never have accepted low standards, when I was in those countries many people were indignant and often visibly angry at the issues their countries were going through, unwilling to accept things as they were and determined to see improvements. Most Bolivians by comparison seemed....passive and resigned to their country's failures.

You could argue at least the Bolivian protestors are trying to enact real change, but they form a minority of Bolivians. And it begs the question of why protests are continuing after what seems like the 70th national blockade? Seems to me they're not working all that well if they need to keep blocking roads again and again. The government is corrupt no doubt, but it's far from the first corrupt government in LATAM.

So those are my theories as to why Bolivia is behind its neighbors. I just can't see how they can improve and become prosperous if most of their people accept things as they are, when standards and expectations are so low. Bolivia is beautiful, but it is a third-world country with a third-world mentality. Its neighbors are doing better, because even though they're not first-world countries, many of their people have adopted first-world mentalities.

Interested to hear your thoughts too, on why Bolivia is less developed than its neighbors?

I always thought Buenos Aires had a lot of graffiti wherever you go, both in the wealthy and poor neighborhoods, but upon watching many videos of Chilean cities like Santiago and Valparaiso, it definitely felt like it is even more intense on the other side of the Andes. In your opinion, which Latin American city has the most graffiti per capita (this includes both vandalistic and artistic graffiti)?

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In Brazil gringo means a foreigner, from any country. So an Argentinian is called a gringo.

But in Mexico I believe gringo is used for English-speaking foreigners only.

How is it used in other countries?