"We Don’t Even Have A Name For That In Spanish": Latin Americans Are Revealing The Things About "Anglo" Culture They Find Perplexing, And They Have A Few Points, TBH

Over successful r/AskLatinAmerica, a Redditor asked folks from astir the satellite to stock the things astir "Anglo" — aka English-speaking — cultures that they're perplexed by. Honestly, they were truly eye-opening to see. Here are 19 of the astir fascinating answers they shared, and wherever successful the satellite they're from:

1. "Putting your nationalist emblem connected a bikini."

2. "I judge this mostly applies to the US. [I don't understand] the full taste inheritance individuality thing, like, 'I americium 25% Irish, 25% German…'"

—No-Addendum6379, Paraguay

"I mean, I would similar to cognize too, genetics is cool. But the quality is that they spot it arsenic a full individuality definition, and I spot it conscionable arsenic a amusive fact."

—puredepapitas, Chile

"Races. Everything and everyone belongs to a definite race, and that is truthful institutionalized that connected authorities forms, they inquire you your race. Dude, each my grandparents are from antithetic places, IDK my race."

—PieceBrief4567, Chile

3. "How truthful galore Anglo-Americans are obsessed with the conception of matrimony and weddings. They look to go infatuated with idiosyncratic precise easily, and aft similar 3 to 4 months of knowing the different person, they privation to enactment a ringing connected it truthful fast. Like, they privation to virtuousness awesome to the remainder of the satellite however madly successful emotion they are, yet the US has a precise precocious divorcement rate. I'd freak retired if I met a idiosyncratic and we dated for little than a twelvemonth and they abruptly projected to me. And don't get maine started with the full 'bridezilla' thing."

—Anonymous

4. "Wedding rings. Why bash I person to pain 3 months of paychecks to bargain a anserine chromatic for my gf to brag about, oregon other I 'don't emotion her enough'?

5. On moving retired (or being booted out) of their parent's homes arsenic soon arsenic they're ineligible adults: "Hi son, you're 18 today. Get retired of my house, you bum, oregon commencement paying rent."

—Weekly_Bed827, Venezuela

6. "At my archetypal bureau occupation successful Canada, radical ate unsocial astatine their desks. If you went to the kitchen, you'd lone perceive Russian and Indian languages being spoken, due to the fact that immigrants were the lone ones successful the 200-person bureau eating together. My woman present works astatine a spot with a ample Latin worker base, and it's akin there. [I've noticed] Latinos thin to devour unneurotic and person amusive during luncheon hour, portion Anglophones often beryllium unneurotic but mostly enactment soundless connected their phones oregon adjacent deterioration headphones."

—Urik88, Argentina

"I deliberation for Americans, it’s much 'fast and done.' In Latín civilization (like successful different places), luncheon and meal are considered times to stock with peers. But it’s decidedly changing present excessively with the emergence of smartphones and societal media."

—Hyparcus, Peru

7. "The conception of loitering. They look to attraction astir idiosyncratic freedoms, yet it is incorrect to beryllium successful nationalist places with nary evident reason."

—OldLoomy, Cuba

"This! We don’t adjacent person a sanction for that successful Spanish."

—EmergencyReal6399, Mexico

8. "High schoolhouse culture. Like proms and graduations and valedictorians, immoderate the hellhole that means. I don't get it."

—rottenwytch, Mexico

"And past you person assemblage life, surviving successful ample campuses with fraternities and sororities and rites of initiation and truthful forth."

—saraseitor, Argentina

9. "Eating meal early. You guys don't get bare aft that?"

—Ok-Organization9073, Uruguay

"Having meal astir 6 PM seems ace weird to me. In Mexico it's astir 8-9 PM, sometimes adjacent aboriginal than that."

—ZealousidealMark4377, Mexico

10. "The request successful the USA to ain your ain conveyance and person your driver's licence arsenic soon arsenic you are 16, due to the fact that nationalist transport is crap successful astir of the country. I tin lone deliberation of bully nationalist transport present successful NYC."

—yellowvincent, Argentina

11. "Individualism. It's chaotic to maine however galore radical enactment similar they don’t springiness a azygous fuck astir the adjacent person... I deliberation astir of the problems they person implicit determination stem from individualism. Nobody gives a fuck astir anyone else. No healthcare, due to the fact that corporations marque money. Loneliness, due to the fact that cipher makes clip for each other. The database goes connected and on."

—FortuneAwkward1, Dominican Republic and Bandejita, Colombia

"This is much of a 'northern' civilization thing. I unrecorded successful Central Europe, and the fig of radical who don’t springiness a crap astir the adjacent idiosyncratic is outstanding. Groups of radical blocking sidewalks similar they don’t attraction if you request to pass. Coming from the different direction, they don’t determination 1 azygous centimeter. And that’s the extremity of the iceberg. The consciousness of assemblage successful Latin countries is decidedly 1 of our strengths."
—chilakiller1, Mexico

12. "That individualism adjacent happens wrong families. Sometimes they tin spell for months without contacting their siblings oregon parents. I don't judge successful the 'family first, nary substance what' thing, but the information that this besides happens with steadfast families is precise strange. One of my biggest taste shocks."

—Anonymous

13. "Food allergies look to beryllium weirdly communal successful the US for immoderate reason. I myself person ne'er met a idiosyncratic who was allergic to anything."

—Anonymous

14. "I don't recognize the conception of nursing homes. Or conscionable visiting your parents connected holidays, possibly not seeing them for months. I can't ideate not visiting my parents astatine slightest erstwhile a week."

—Rikeka, Argentina

"I couldn't recognize wherefore everyone determination ends up successful nursing homes until I moved to Canada. Turns retired that cities successful North America are so, SO car-dependent that erstwhile you tin nary longer drive, you are precise limited. The closest market store mightiness beryllium kilometers distant from their house, and walking determination is astir apt dangerous. Thus, erstwhile you tin nary longer drive, it is disconnected to a status assemblage oregon a nursing home. "

—Urik88, Argentina

15. "I've ne'er had nutrient poisoning successful my life, but I've recovered that if you inquire astir Americans astir nutrient poisoning, they not lone person had it, but tin springiness you a ranking with the apical 3 worst ones."

—Saltimbanco_volta, Brazil

16. "Women losing their past names and taking their husband's erstwhile getting married. What benignant of medieval 'women are property' reasoning is that?"

—puntastic_name, Chile

In Chile, wherever this Redditor is from, women support their commencement name.

17. "I find it ace weird however communal it is for household members to autumn retired and conscionable not talk to each different ever again. I get that radical tin person toxic oregon abusive families, which 100% merit it, but Anglo families look to chopped interaction for precise insignificant things oregon adjacent spot it arsenic a archetypal enactment of effect erstwhile idiosyncratic feels offended oregon slighted. It's wholly backward to however I spot the world."

—Pfmcdu, Peru

18. "I've work that immoderate American Boomers walk their past wealth connected vacations and whatnot alternatively of giving their children an inheritance. I've ne'er seen this present successful Chile. A weakened filial transportation seems weird to me."

—Jone469, Chile

19. And finally, "Student and aesculapian loans. No 1 should look poorness due to the fact that they can't spend acquisition and oregon healthcare."

—yellowvincent, Argentina

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