Hi,

I don't mean to be rude or come across as culturally insensitive. Is there a difference in littering/maintaining neighborhood character between hispanic immigrants coming to America. My parents immigrated to America from India, a country which has issues with public infrastructure (sanitation, littering). However, Indian American communities/neighborhoods do not seem to have issues with littering. My neighbors who are Mexican immigrants were mentioning that the littering in the neighborhoods stems from dominance's/venezuelan migrants. Are Central American countries worse when it comes to this sort of littering phenomenon. It is not a question of hygiene or cleanliness as their houses are typically clean, but the lack of respect for the public infrastructure. Just wondering, sorry if this comes across as offensive due to ignorance

In the U.S., where I live , the latest narrative is immigrant, specifically, Venezuelan crime. The media here makes Venezuelans seem dangerous in their rhetoric and anytime one of them does something it’s national news. However if you look at all the stats they’ll tell you immigrants commit less crimes than an average U.S. citizen and there is a mythical gap between them and crime. I notice a lot of you on here say that Venezuelans have came in en masse to your country and made the crime go up by a lot. My question is, is that really true? Secondly, if it’s not happening here in the U.S., why is it happening in your country?

Here its at 17, i know in the US is at 18

I have been lurking on this sub from time to time, even though I live faraway. And I have been wanting to ask this question which I asked to r/askeurope a few months ago. I saw a lot of interesting answers, so I thought why not ask it to a different continent as well.

So, I am from Indonesia, which is one of the eating rice 3 times a day countries, at least traditionally. (Based on limited knowledge on Latam, you guys seem to eat rice quite a lot as well).

My parents often ask whether I feel full after eating carb that is not rice, especially bread/potato/pasta (Asian noodle is kind of an exception). In the past they won't even consider that I have eaten yet, they will still say 'there is rice in the rice cooker and some side dishes' and tell me to eat. Although they will emphasize the point to still eat more of the side dishes (esp fish), bcs carb won't make you smart..

There was (and probably still is) a habit of almost everyone, to eat instant noodle (ramen) with rice. We consider the ramen as a side dish because it has seasoning. And yeah they taste good together actually if you don't see the health implication.

And from another culture that I experience on my own, I see my Turkish husband's family eating everything with mountain of bread, even when they have pasta, oily rice, or dishes that is mostly potato with few bits of meat/ other vegetables.

Both families have reduced the carb intakes nowadays thankfully.

Is there anything such in your culture? Does not necessarily have to be carb though.

Sorry for the long post

Is it kind of like comparing english in the caribbean and US to the UK. Or is it like trying to understand a different language? To take a country for example how different is Mexican spanish from spain spanish?

In Brasil, we're widely known to have some of the most violent prisons. History of killings and attacks in them all the time.

How does your country compare?

Is it comfortable? Or is it a hard grind? I'm curious as to how diverse the jobs and salaries are for each country.

im asking this as a brazilian. someone asked me if brazilians feel some proximity between african lusitan countries like angola, mozambique, etca, and i said no because we don't. i don't know anything about those countries neither does the average braziian except for the fact that angolans always comment on brazilian contents some things like "abraços de angola 🇦🇴🫂 irmãos" lmao and on my particular case, i've learned that they tend to look up to us since we are the biggest exporters of lusophone media. there was even this angolan girl on BBB (brazil's biggest reality show) that grew up with brazilian telenovelas and always had the dream of visiting.

so im wondering if the case is also the same with hispanic america and countries like equatorial guinea and western sahara? or is there some cultural/historical proximity?

edit: im shocked with some comments like "we are better than them"

This question is inspired by a comment made on another thread where the poster shared a photo they took during their time living in Chilean Patagonia. I think when it comes to natural beauty and wilderness, no continent can parallel America. I was really curious what it's like to live in these places of natural beauty, is life difficult and expensive, like it is in Alaska? Are these more rural areas dying like they are in the US, or after COVID did a lot of city dwellers move to them because remote work allowed them to? Do you have experience living in these places? If so, do you like living there? To me, it would be a dream come true to live somewhere like Patagonia, but I also know that there are a lot of unique challenges that come with these environments, as well as unique joys.

Hey, I'm looking for a place where I can stay with a local family in Latin America for a week/week and a half in December. (Besides Spanish school programs) Would love to have your recommendations.

Thank you.

In the US, it is a weird space. A lot of liberals are very angry at Trump because they view him as anti-immigrant. What is interesting is, a lot of immigrants here do not like other immigrants. It ranges from a variety of reasons such as their generation didnt work as hard as we do, I "GOT mine" so poo on you, you are from the country I left so I dont wanna be with you, you made my country bad so dont come to US. The worst one is if you are illegal or an asylum seeker, as many legal aliens view them as moochers and those who hurt the system they struggled in. To be honest I wish they would blame our govt for being so slow and ineffective instead of other immigrants. But anyway, many Latin immigrants here do not like other migrants. So in Latin America, what's your take on Trump/ his treatment or feelings towards immigrants, and whether legal vs illegal immigration should be viewed completely different

I saw a Brazilian airbnb owner had to politely scold the guest, an American, for leaving the window open because monkeys would enter the house and open the fridge. He said that you can give them bananas to quell their ambitions. So, does your country have monkeys? Are they rude? Aggressive?

The only partner university in Latin America that my uni has is Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP), so I am probably going to study there for 6 months. I dont know anything about this place except that rent is very cheap for Dutch people. But I do have some questions like how are the 18-25-year-olds here, do they speak a decent amount of English, how is the night life and the surroundings? Especially what are the DONTS. I am white as hell and I do not want people to think I am American, I hate that.

How would you react if your country banned social media for kids and teens? Do you think it is a good idea?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c89vjj0lxx9o

I've seen a variation of this question asked here but it was more relating to native cuisines.

As someone from Ireland I know our native cuisine is trash but we have a great selection of restaurants with international food and some food that doesn't necessarily belong to one culture but is done well. I'm sure this could be the case for some LatAm countries too and would love to hear from people if their countries have a similar situation.

For example, I saw most people in one of the previous questions about worst national cuisines bashing Chilean (along with Brazilian) food, but I just arrived to Santiago a few days ago after 6 weeks in Argentina and I have to say I've personally found the food and especially coffee better here (sorry Argentina, I love ur country just not its food). I have loved everything I tried here so far.

As for the best, in the last few months I visited Mexico and Costa Rica too, and I think my favourite of all 4 countries has predictably been in Mexico (who would have seen that coming?)

Anyway I wanted to hear from the countries' own people to see their opinions or if anyone's travelled around.

Here in Mexico there are some expressions used to proclaim a victory (I.e, a futbol Match, when you win anything relating to group activities, etc) that use some words and sayings relating to sexuality and rape.

It's common for people to say "te la metieron" whenever you have lost at something. Or when someone is happy about sports victories "se los violaron". And the like.

So I want to know, do your country also uses sexual abuse euphemisms to celebrate/ cry over a victory/ loss?

The US has Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award of the United States presented to individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States. The UK has Knighthood and Damehood which I guess is similar.

Does your country have something similar?

Might be a niche question, I'm not really into classical music, but like to hear sometimes and I saw Danzon no 2 which was fantastic, sounds like an epic tango, very beautiful song.

What composers and classical music from LATAM do you recommend? What do you like?

Not going to say this happens everywhere but to me Reddit seems to place more attention to/more value to the content or opinions coming from people from "The West" (West as defined by White Americans and Western Europeans that is) and maybe people from Japan (aka the "cool Asians"). But I've noticed in subs like worldnews, mapporn or music that whenever someone from a developing country gives their input on something, they don't get as much traction or upvotes as the ones made by people who don't mention where they're from or they mention they're from places like Canada, Australia, Scandinavia, Germany, etc. Also most of the positive stereotypes about countries are for those places and never for countries in Latin America, Africa, Asia (unless it's Japan) etc. It's this weird but very subtle bias against those populations that aren't seen as "Western" or adjacent to the US or Western Europe. Has anyone noticed this?

LIn the US there is a lot of romanticization of London and British culture. Are there a lot of hispanophiles in Latin America like there are anglophiles in the US? So people dream of visiting Madrid/Spain?

In honor of our intependence from Spain!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swn1ZDRTnhg

I recently saw this video and was surprised this person was Hispanic and not Asian. It is not uncommon to see Hispanics that sometimes closely resemble Asians.

Have you seen many Hispanics who look Asian? Is it somewhat common?

Recently i was surprised when I saw a video of a guy in the United States being openly racist towards a group of people, even with the police nearby who did absolutely nothing. I know that in Brazil, the guy would be arrested and it made me wonder if there are laws against this kind of thing in other latin american countries

I've had windows throw me some natural scenery from Chile and it looks really pretty.

How is Mexico's new government shaping out to be? There were judicial reforms (federal judges now are elected instead of appointed), new President. I'm curious about the new Cabinet and other appointed/elected positions to get a sense for what Mexico's governance could reasonably look like in the next few years. More curious about domestic issues than international.

Like if you approach a girl or you text her and say:

“¿Te has perdido? Porque el cielo está bien lejos de aquí”

Would that work?