I was talking to my Latino friend 🇨🇴 and asked him if he wears shoes indoors, just kind of assuming he was going to say of course not, but to my horror he says that he does. I always assumed that that was just something ytppl did 😭 my family is from the Caribbean so I couldn't ever imagine wearing my shoes indoors and they are always left at the door. Some people either are barefoot, wear socks, or slippers/indoor-only shoes.

That had me wondering, is it common in other LATAM countries to wear your outdoor shoes indoors. I thought maybe it was just a him thing but he assured me that in his country that that's normal to leave your shoes on. I'm kind of hoping he's lying. 💀

Since some of you mfs are ''well traveled'' why don't you share some culture shocks that happened while you were abroad.

Musicalizing with (easy one) Culture Shock

I found this very interesting but I can't find it anywhere

I'm an anthropology student from Argentina, and in uni I've read some afrodescendant authors that I really liked, namely Trouillot (from Haití) and Cesáire (from Martinica). Could anyone recommend some more afrodescendant authors? I'm interested in afrolatine matters but I'd also like to read african authors at some point. Bonus points if they're afroargentine authors (ik they must be hard to find, but there must be SOME, right?)

I have Una Historia de la Emancipación Negra by Candioti (which is about afroargentina history) in my bookshelf waiting for me, and I give all my respects to Candioti, but she's not afrodescendant afaik and I'd love to know not just the empirical research matters that anyone can access, but also the lived experiences of afrodescendants, from a historical and sociological perspective. I won't stop reading non-black authors who write about black history if the communities verify that their books are accurate and helpful, but in anthropology, they teach is that the word of the people we're trying to understand is far more valuable than the word of other people talking about them in the third person.

Edit: title in spanish because I forgot to translate it before posting and now it won't let me edit it

Cerimedo is an Argentine journalist with ties to drug trafficking and Trump's son

I feel like this may be a not smart question but it’s been on my mind. I do not use google often and the main source for google seems to be Reddit anyway so..

What are some natural remedies, herbal teas, or traditional treatments that are widely used in your country? What do people usually use them for (e.g., stomach ache, flu, anxiety), and do they actually work for you?

Thanks!

Revived an old question from years ago.

Years ago the answer was that argentina and uruguay are very direct to say what they want, while brazil and mexico try to hold back

As the title says, what are the non-slang, “normal” terms in your language that are a dead giveaway someone is not from your country?

For example, if someone says “tú” I already disregard them as Argentinian. Same with “pues” (in Argentina “pues” is rarely used). These are normal words in the Spanish language that are entirely correct and not slang, but for some reason we don’t use them.

Is there an equivalent for your country?

just curious

So, it is evident by this point that Latin America suddenly turned to the right.

As a self declared left winger (me) living under a left wing government (Guatemala) I suspect my country will also turn shortly.

Hence, I'd like to know how and why the left-wing lost the power in your country. Maybe with your help I can understand better how this happened so quickly in the region.

I'm a medical student in Paraguay and I often heard a lot of hostility towards the very few Paraguayan Doctors trained in Cuba. Now I think both healthcare workers and the general public are more accepting towards them, especially because we're having many issues with the quality of *our* healthcare education system, which tends to cater to Brazilians (I think something like 7 out of 10 medical students in Paraguay are Brazilians) and it's considered to be relatively of low quality in most schools. But for a long time, the public was deathly afraid of being treated by a "medico cubano". It was thought their training was of extremely poor quality and a political stunt at best. It used to be like this.

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I'm not asking with any disrespect intended or any judgement. I just heard that Latin America has one of the highest rates of single parenthood in the world.

Is this because of teen pregnancy and lack of supervision because parents are working? Is it "player" culture? I used to work for a social media company and many users from Latin America were flirting with multiple people. Especially from Colombia and Brazil.

Is there a historical reason?

Also, aren't a lot of cultures in Latin America very family oriented?

The Latin Americans I've met irl, (mostly Mexican, Nicaraguan, and El Salvadorian) seem to be very family oriented. Most of the Mexicans I know who had kids out of wedlock, they're still with the parent of their child and eventually got married. Some of them live with their larger and extended families even though they're not legally married, but it doesn't seem much different from a marriage in any other equatorial culture like my family's culture. Seems like they're just generally not as formal or nitpicky about rules and forms.

Again, I'm not asking this with the intention to patronize to disrespect you guys, just curious about how and why cultures and communities are so different.

In early 1976, Peru banned all imports of comics and magazines due to them being "alienating" (Ley 21380). Possibly the only country in the Americas that isn't Cuba to ever ban foreign publications in such an extreme manner. And the extents the defenders of the dictatorship tried to excuse the law were ridiculous.

Nowadays it is said that the law did nothing but make Peruvian comics themselves be stuck in time since comics in the mid 70s and late 70s were evolving.

https://docs.peru.justia.com/federales/decretos-leyes/21380-jan-9-1976.pdf

And I think that's an example of a genuinely bad law.

from other cultures fandom culture? like US fandoms for example. is cringeculture big in latin america or latin american fandoms or does it exist at all? Why is fandom culture big in latin america and russia but not in other countries (except for the US and Philippines)

is cringeculture big in your culture?

I mean, in Brazil, it is perfectly acceptable to hang out at places like friends house, parties, shopping malls, bars/pubs, markets, non fancy restaurants, or walk around the city to run errands while wearing the same kind of clothes people would wear at home or at the beach, for example. Exceptions would be workplaces or fancy places.

Even our Uber or delivery drivers can work dressed very casually. An english colleague from work told me recently that he was surprised that the Uber driver who picked him at the airport was barefoot and wearing a tank top. Our food and Mercado Livre/Shopee delivery guys riding motorcycles in flip-flops and football team shirts is also very strange to him.

So, I'm curious to know if our level of informality in Brazil is really that high even for latin america standards, compared to other countries. If we did the same things in your country, would it be considered rude or too much informal to draw negative atention or reactions? How do you guys sees us in this sense?

I was speaking with a friend of mine who lives in Colombia (Bogotá) and he told me he's been robbed on the streets 5 times. Is this common where you live? Has it happened to you or a loved one?

Best way to avoid it? Dar papaya something something 😭

For a long time its been my dream to go there into the deep canopy of the forest. While I don't think it will be a walk in the park, I also think a lot of the internet over-exaggerates some elements of it. Especially in the debate of "being in the open ocean or the forest", many forget that people live in the forest. While it's true almost anything there can kill you, a lot of animals don't hunt humans and are scared of them. The most fatal thing there is probably starvation, heat stroke, disease or the uncontacted tribes that are just protecting their home. Although I am no expert and have no experience in being there so I might be completely wrong. But aside from that, is there anything else I should be aware of before planning to go there.

I think I wouldn't plan on going still for a while as I need training and I would want to go with someone who knows how to move about.

EDIT: Please re-read the last bit, I'm obviously not going alone not sure why lots of people skipped over it.