Culture Shocks From Living in CHILE? (Santiago)

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• 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.

• wena cabros , monos no somos hace siglos

• 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 😂

• 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.

• 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 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!

  • @@Gaboxxy96 She arrived around 2009, not in the 90s.

  • @@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.

  • 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.

  • 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

• Colmbian and Venezolan more quiet than Chilean people.... LOL XDDDDDDDDD

• Seems like the Portuguese guy never tried Chilean seafood

  • ​@@thekingofmoney2000 Yeah but its not bad he just never tried good stuff here. He lacks good recommendations.

  • @@Gaboxxy96best fast food in the world? I don’t think most outside of Chile even know what those foods are.

  • @@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).

  • It just doesn’t compare to Portuguese food.

• Awesome video

• 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!

  • 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.

  • @@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.

  • 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.

• 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.