Foreigners Reveal BIGGEST Culture Shocks in Brazil (Rio)

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• The woman from Finland only complained about Brazil and Brazilians however she hás been here for 18 years. It must be horrible for her 😂 😅

  • Ela falou bem do que é bom e mal do que é ruim ué kkkkkkkkkk

• ”Don’t trust latinos” ”Not everybody’s a criminal” UGH, as a Finnish guy these comments got me shaking my damn head! So ignorant.
  Muuta takas Suomee, jos pittää valittaa koko aja perkele

  • Yes, we Brazilians arenito Latinos or considered ourselves ones. AND she livres in Rio for 18 years 😅. Perkele! Hahahaha

• a finlandesa falou mal do povo, da sujeira, da confiabilidade, mas tá morando a 18 anos aqui. Ué?

  • Ouviu tudo isso mas perdeu quando falou que fica pelos dois filhos cariocas.

• Brazil is a huge country and the video shows Rio’s culture, which is the most open in the country.

• Eu acho muito engraçado esse espanto dos gringos falando de como “andamos nus ou com pouca roupa” sendo que na europa eles literalmente botam os peitos pra fora fazendo topless nas praias ou parques

  • @@xpertdre mas os peitos ficam totalmente a mostra lá, aqui a bunda ainda fica um pouco tampada

  • A percentagem de mulheres fazendo topless na praia é MUITO menor que a percentagem de mulher com o bikini dentro do cool...

  • Sim mano kkkk

  • É pq lá faz muito frio

  • Verdade

• The stereotype of Brazil in foreigners mind is the stereotype from Rio. Brazil has a continental dimension, more than 200 milion people of different origins. The rest of Brazil is quite different from Rio, the accents, people, customs, the way of life, many differences. If someone wants to know Brazil, it is necessary to visit different regions. If you think Brazil is Rio so you do not know Brazil. For example; São Paulo city is a metropolis, no beaches, not so hot and it rains a lot in the summer, people are always in a hurry and they are more serious. You can find people of other parts from Brazil and from other countries in São Paulo. If you go more to the south of the country things change, if you go to midwest is another thing, northwest another completely different...

  • Eles não estão errados, pois em qualquer lugar apenas 1 ou 2 estados representam o país , não existe mais do q isso

  • ​​@@gisellemoura5753I'm not from Rio de Janeiro and I defend Rio de Janeiro too and the rest of Brazil.

  • ​@@gisellemoura5753True.

  • Rio de Janeiro is stereotyped in the video too! Most of people from Rio is decent and work a lot to make a living. You should criticise the Finnish woman that made terrible comments about Brazilians. You, as a Brazilian, should support your people like they do in their countries. Stop criticising Rio de Janerio because the other regions are not that different. After all, we´re all Brazilian.

  • Even Rio de Janeiro is stereotyped in this video.

• Seems like that Finnish lady is simply unable to operate outside the strict enforcement of rules. I'd assume she's very machine-like for being unable to glimpse civilization outside the binder she's used to. Brazil has been through so many crises and the system failing so much that the people developed the ability to negotiate rules and have matters flowing on-the-go. So the Finnish lady is like a cog, whereas brazilians are rebuilding the system everyday, adapting to every new problem, and having an entire continental country running quite peacefully for the amount of issues going on. When a people builds their "civilization" everyday, with enormous flexibility and adaptability to unforeseen and foressen issues, instead of having "civilization" imposed in the form of rules for them to blindly follow, I dunno, it looks to me that the one who knows how to make civilization from scratch, accomodating an enormous range of issues and still keep stuff going, is more civilised, as opposed to a trained monkey. But alas, the blinder...

  • @@CerridwenAwel that's the point!

  • @@GABIdotGABI exactly. Different people can always add to each other. We're all flawed some way or another, and the different other help us see ourselves better. But it's incredibly arrogant to look down on others simply because they don't play by your book. Referring to them as uncivilised, "jungle rule", of all things, an inferior race, that's the sort of thing nazis used to do.

  • @@Frivals why is it so difficult to see it's not a competition. I suppose the "civilised" can't think any other way. Just parrot as told...

  • Yeah yeah sure you are the best 🙄🙄🙄🤦‍♂️

  • I am Brazilian and I work with Estonians. Basically, they want everything to be planned in advance and create a series of rules for all processes. This is good because it makes work organized and efficient. On the other hand, an excess of rules limits creativity and sometimes makes processes too slow. The Brazilian team knows how to deal much better with unforeseen events and can find a way out even in the most complicated situations and when there are not enough resources available. Rules are important but creativity and resilience are too.

• Brazil is a huge country and most people have a very different lifestyle than Rio. Rio has more tourists and people want to be more interesting. Overall, the country is more conservative and more family-focused.

  • ⁠@@sabrynatenorioPerhaps there are a significant number of conservative people in the city of Rio, but that is not the reputation the city has simply because there are very large numbers of people in the city of Rio who are not conservative and those numbers are very evident to anyone who visits the city or spends any considerable amount of time in the city. No one is saying all Cariocas are one way or another but for any one to say that Rio is generally known as a conservative city overall would not be honest with themselves. Every city on Earth has a general reputation for a reason. Generalizations are not 100% true, but they arise from general impressions and experiences, so if nothing else, they can partially true, while leaving space for individual truths and lifestyles as well.

  • @@ander6368 Nem todas as mulheres brasileiras são promíscuas.

  • @@ander6368 Mulheres mais promíscuas não são as do Brasil.

  • Mulheres mais promiscuas são as daqui

  • Rio de Janeiro is also conservative too.

• Important to know the culture in Rio is different from other regions.

  • Important to know not all cariocas are the same. The carioca that you find at night doesn't represent all the cariocas.

  • Thank you! It is so frustrating to take Rio's culture and say that that represents the country.

  • Exactly! As brazilian, I can say it. If a tourist wish to meet our cultures, our way of life, NEVER should be only around Copacabana , Ipanema, Leblon ,Barra da Tijuca... @@--th

  • Rio has dozen of cultures within. And Brazil has hundreds.

    Each place has its sociological aspects.

  • Perfect! I'm brazilian. You said exactly what happen. Uno thing is, to walk around the touristic beaches of "zona sul". Another completly different thing is "to know about brazilian lifestyle, culture..." The real way of life in diferent places around Rio, and more!! Arould of Brazil!! Me, as brazilian, almost don't realize my own brazilian culture when I walk around these places of vídeo lol

• Most of the comments were pretty lighthearted and fun/true, but I guess one of the finnish women does not realize how xenophobic her relative sounded while saying latinos can't be trusted. Even when you say it as a meme you should be extra careful, but I'm pretty sure that older generations trust that for a fact based on stereotypes and prejudice

  • I mean, I am latina... you can't trust latinos. You can leave a wallet or stuff in Germany without getting robbed. For us, that's a mind blowing concept. It's the truth and if you get offended, you are delusional.

  • @@davidelliott1594 when you stick to a stereotype of a whole culture/race (and bear in mind that latinos can be found anywhere from Mexico until Chile) and uses this as a metric to define these people in a derogatory way, you're being racist. You say she's based on her almost 20 years here in Brazil. Well, I'm 41 and I'm brazilian. Been to more than 20 countries and even though I've been well treated in most of them, it's easy to notice when someone (especially from Europe) tend to see us as savages like it's just a "quirky trait". It's a stupid thing to assume about anyone else, doesn't matter if it's latinos, asians, black people or any other ethnicity. The ones who believe in concepts like that should be less self absorbed and get to know for a fact what goes on around the world. Watching Geography Now on youtube is a good start

  • @raphaelfp If I may ask, what was racist about her comment exactly? First, Latino is not a "race," it is more about culture and regional descent and a Latino can be of any "race." Also, xenophobia is a fear of foreigners. I didn’t get that vibe from her.

    In the video, I believe she said her mother told her, "you can't trust Latinos" and that she herself finds that to be "sometimes" true, and she gave specific cultural examples in her experience where she lives as to why she made the comment.

    And if we are being completely honest, I have personally known people from various Latin American countries who say the same thing about their own cultures, and whether true or false, it is something people occasionally experience everywhere. It is not uncommon to hear some people criticize elements of their own culture.

    And she was specifically asked what she did not like about Brazil, she simply didn't sugar coat her answer. A person shouldn't ask that question if they don't want someone to tell the truth.

    She didn't overgeneralize by saying ALL Latinos cannot be trusted, she said sometimes she finds it to be true based on her experiences of 18 years living in the city of Rio de Janeiro. She simply answered the question in an honest manner. But her response definitely could have been worded better, but I wouldn't chalk it up to racism per se, just a different cultural perspective on what is considered honest.

  • @@jaskatpon1 it's racist anyway. Every latino knows how it feels to be treated in such a condescending way

  • Maybe she meant it as a joke due to certain old stereotypes of Latino people among the older generation of people.