Culture Shocks From Living in CHILE? (Santiago)
Foreigners living in Santiago de Chile share their biggest culture shocks upon arriving to the country. What is something they like and don't like about life in Chile, how are Chilean people and is it easy to make friends and how did Chile change them as a person?
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0:00 Intro
1:13 Expectations vs Reality
2:32 Cultural shocks living in Chile
4:00 How is it making friends in Chile?
5:18 Chilean Spanish
7:27 Likes & Dislikes of Living in Chile
8:24 How did living in Chile change you?
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first viewer, woohooo. I want to visit south America. Is it safe?
South America is really big – I’d say there are places that are really dangerous and places that are really safe. I felt safe everywhere in Chile except in Valparaiso. Many people had warned me about going to Buenos Aires but its city center seemed really safe as well. Brazil didn’t feel very safe but it’s still doable if one pays attention and knows how to act in more dangerous places. All three countries were beautiful and interesting. I’d say, take the necessary precautions and avoid super sketchy places but never let people scare you out of traveling to South America.
South America overall isn’t the safest but Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Costa Rica are the safest and most developed countries from the region.
Depends on the country and depends on the city. It’s not the safest part of the world, but it’s also not the most dangerous either. Just use common sense and do your research, and you should be fine.
No, don’t come.
Mi paiiiiis mi paiiiiiis
I would love to visit South America one day!
As an Englishman, I only know this about Chile: the women are beautiful, and the wine is the best in the world 🇨🇱
Awante Chile
Que alguien consiga el Instagram del que dijo que nuestrsa comida es muy mala, para dejarle unas recetas en sus fotos 😈
La comida chilena tradicional es como bien fome. Estamos en el poto del mundo así que durante casi toda nuestra historia teníamos ingredientes limitados. Además, el grueso de los chilenos son super conservadores con la comida. Pero creo que a lo que se refería es que la mayoría de la comida que uno puede encontrar el la ciudad es comida rápida, sanguches.
@@Altrantis Es cierto que las comidas son más bien simples y equilibradas, con relativamente pocos ingredientes, pero eso no es distinto a otras gastronomias reconocidas como la italiana, francesa, griega o incluso la de los vecinos argentinos, por lo que en sí mismo no es un punto negativo. El sushi por darte de ejemplo es uno de los platos más reconocidos del mundo y es literal arroz, pescado y salsa de soya. Lo otro es que no se porque se tienen que menospreciar otros platos solo por ser comida rápida siendo que en ese aspecto también tenemos una de las mejores gastronomias del mundo: el completo italiano es considerado por muchos como la mejor variación de hot dog en el mundo, y como mínimo top 5; el chacarero salió como uno de los 13 mejores sandwiches del mundo según Time; sacando comida rápida, el pastel de choclo está en segundo mejor plato de caserola según taste atlas, y el pastel de jaiba figura en el top 100 si no me equivoco; las machas a la parmesana están en el top 100 de mejores platos de mar; después tenemos otros platos increibles como la chorrillana, el lomo a lo pobre, paila marina, etc. En fin, podria escribir 10 párrafos más, tenemos platos de sobra para ser considerados una buena gastronomía, y objetivamente “doesn’t suck”.
@@Altrantis Y nisiquiera mencione las empanadas, amigo. Quien en su sano juicio podria comerse una rica empanada de pino y decir que es mala. Siento que los chilenos somos tan chaqueteros que no logramos valorar nada de nuestra cultura. Hay MUCHÍSIMOS platos ricos en Chile.
@@Gaboxxy96 Esque chile tiene una gastronomia muy limitada y “fome”. No te voy a mentir, he estado en muchos lados pero no hay como una empanadita de queso o un buen completo, pero si es verdad que la comida chilena es mas “sobria” y tiene mucho menos condimentos y agregados. Es como lo que pasa con los britanicos, el pescado con papas fritas o el desayuno ingles es muy rico pero si lo comparamos con la comida del sur de europa, se queda corta
Yessss more chile videos pleeasee ❤🤩
6:26 “hey how’s it going”
“Good, and you?”
“Good, just going around the plazas, fairs, doing interviews”
“Oh cool, I’ve been here with a friend esgujvsejgdghghb tbffg ffchj (I didn’t get the rest, too fast).
I think you nailed the last part tbh 😂
Soy argentino y no logro entender a los que dicen que la comida chilena es mala, yo estuve unas tres veces en Chile y la verdad es que siempre comí algo que me resultó rico o muy rico. La manera en que preparan los frutos de mar para mí es exquisita pero también la comida de todos los días no me pareció mala en absoluto.
It is coming from a Portuguese which is know to have the most understated food and possibly the best in the world, so take it with a grain of salt. A British would probably say the food is good, no disrespect to British people.
Portuguese people have really wonderful cuisine, so I’m sure to him, Chilean food is drab in comparison.
As a chilean I agree that the cheese variety here has a lot to improve. We’re really good with meltable sandwich cheeses, but to arrange a snack platter or an cheese plate you won’t find anything.
That’s crazy. Especially since you have a lot of wine, and the two go together
I’ve been to other countries in South America and they’re even worse. The whole continent has to improve, but Chile and Argentina are leaders regarding cheese variety availability tbh
@@HippiePajon Chile never had a big tradition of eating cheese by themselves, it’s almost always in sandwiches, empanadas or things of that sort. That said, the cheeses we do have are very decent for their intended purposes, especially the “mantecoso” or “chanco” variety.
@@ms64342 Brazil has a lot more variety, and I say this as someone who has lived in both countries.
Chilean Spanish isn’t that hard to understand, it’s the slang that they use that makes it confusing, because it’s so different from the slang from other Spanish speaking countries. I’ve never had a hard time understanding standard Chilean Spanish.
Dude needs to stop comparing Chile with Colombia and Venezuela ffs. It’s like comparing Canada with the US & Mexico (which nobody does) or Italy with France. Chile is it’s own country with it’s own style and customs. And to state the food is bad is just … (rolls eyes). The food is delicious; it’s just not the stereotypical food people associate with Latin America. ay Dios Mio!
Actually, Canada and Mexico have a lot in common with the USA, especially Canada. That’s a bad comparison. And Italy and France have a lot in common too, another bad comparison. lol I think he was expecting something similar to Portuguese food in Chile, but he shouldn’t had such high expectations.
@@thekingofmoney2000 I am Canadian/Chilean and I live in Canada and nope, it’s not a bad comparison at all. I have yet to see someone on this thing we call the internet try to compare Mexico to Canada & vice-versa🤣🤣🤣just because they’re on the same continent. But whatever. Constantly comparing South American countries is asinine, ignorant and disrespectful, and *that* is my opinion.
Exactly. Like I said in another comment, I feel like he came to Chile with the expectations of it being the typical stereotype of what a latin country should be, and then was disappointed when he realized that the country didn’t live up to the idealization he had on his mind of the “spicy latinos” he was expecting to find here, instead of just accepting it’s a different country with a different culture, which was made evident with the constant comparisons to Venezuela and Colombia. It’s like if I went to Portugal and criticised it’s food by comparing it to the food I had in Morocco; it simply wouldn’t make any sense.
Awesome video
Seems like the Portuguese guy never tried Chilean seafood
It just doesn’t compare to Portuguese food.
@@thekingofmoney2000 Probably, but it doesn’t “suck” like the dude was saying, we actually have many dishes that have international appeal. By the way he was talking about the food you could tell he only tasted fast food for the most part (though even then, dishes like the completo italiano, chacarero or lomito italiano are considered some of the best fast food dishes in the world).
@@Gaboxxy96best fast food in the world? I don’t think most outside of Chile even know what those foods are.
@@thekingofmoney2000 Yeah but its not bad he just never tried good stuff here. He lacks good recommendations.
Colmbian and Venezolan more quiet than Chilean people…. LOL XDDDDDDDDD
You can tell she is still very Dutch because she said Chile was just backwards lmao, only a dutch would be so honest and direct. Still, I would like to know what she considers backwards, cause some things as infrastructure are objectively inferior, while other things as cultural traits are not necessarily so straightforward.
I guess she was referring to when she arrived and she said it was 15 years ago so I couldn’t agree more that 2009 Chile was way behind Europe at the time, especially in terms of how open-minded or liberal people were, but also because we lacked on presence of international brands (I’d say it was between 2007 and 2017 that it changed really fast) and also, in terms of infrastructure, in general, the most prominent city changing projects started on the early 2000s
Well, she said Chile was backwards when she first arrived. Just for context, in 1990 almost half of the population was under the poverty line, with many slums that had horrible infraestructure and many malnourished kids. Nowadays, less than 10% of the population is poor, almost all slums have been eradicated and we have an obesity problem in vulnerable areas, which I’ll take any day of the weak instead of malnourishment. If she arrived in those years, as a chilean I would totally get why she’d say that.
@@andresvaldiviesovera6877 That was my point exactly, what did she refer to. I would say infrastructure is still deficient in Santiago (I live here and been several times to the netherlands) but mentality at least imo should not be thought as “forward or backwards”. Specially in this channel, because if it was for that then we could say all latin caountries are backwards and end of the story.
@@Gaboxxy96 She arrived around 2009, not in the 90s.
i don’t think being pozzed is being backwards.. but you do you bro.
But I feel like the kaaskop here wasn’t really that controversial, I mean you’re comparing a developed country.. to a developing one, it’s a shocker!
I never thought I was gonna hear someone that LITERALLY sounded like talking at 2x speed. The lady from California nailed it. Like I myself speak fast but there’s something in her voice that makes it sound like she’s digitally edited, I don’t know I had to rewind the video a couple times to check if it looked as fast as it sounded when she was taking. I might sound weird but I’m just mindblown. She could go viral on tiktok, I mean I got to the point of thinking she was too slow so you had to edit her to 2x just to keep up with the rhythm of the interviews and I mean it in the best possible, not creepy, really not passive-aggressive, absolutely self-conscious way.
nuestro queso es malo? yo juraba q era terrible weno, de que me estoy perdiendo?
El queso de los super en chile no tiene mucho sabor porque no lo dejan madurar lo suficiente. Es casi como comer plastico 😂
wena cabros , monos no somos hace siglos
What is said about cheese is true, Chile lags behind in this specific item but it is because here the production of cheese is not allowed except with pasteurized milk, unlike some European countries where it is allowed. The greatest variety of cheeses is found in imported cheeses that have already passed a certification process.
Lo que se dice del queso es verdad, Chile queda atras en ese tan especifico item pero es por que aca no se permite la elaboracion de quesos que no sea con leche pasteurizada a diferencia de algunos paises europeos donde si se permite. La mayor variedad de quesos la encuentras en los importados que ya pasaron un proceso de certificación.