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?

CREW:
Lau Castro (camera/sound)
Pancho Salis Monroy (host)
Marina Iakovleva (editing)

Filmed in:
Santiago de Chile

[danielpiedecasas]

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.

[EnzFab]

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 culture, style, customs, etc. 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!

[Englishman_AD]

As an Englishman, I only know this about Chile: the women are beautiful, and the wine is the best in the world 🇨🇱

[EEC]

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

[alejandrorodriguezvasquez]

The Portuguese guy says Chilean food is more like “junk food”, but he loves Colombian and Venezuelan food. Men, junk food is the combination of fat, salt and sugar, can you let me know where you can get more fatty and salty food? Venezuelan and Colombian food is mostly fried fatty and salty food, obviously more tasty, but that’s the main characteristic of junk food 😅😅 🤦🏻‍♂️.

[quieroserindiecl]

I never realized how passive we are at pubs, that's absolutely correct, but you can still talk to strangers if you are extroverted enough haha

[hectordsga]

That Portugal guy must be out of his mind saying colombian food is better than chilean 💀 colombians put cheese on everything and I mean EVERYTHING

[davidmontseny]

Amigos europeos y estadounidenses por más que estemos en el mismo continente con Colombia, Perú y Venezuela...no somos lo mismo. Cada país es diferente y Chile en particular gusta de no parecerse.

[Karus]

El ingles: Me gusta hacer amigos en Chile gracias al "Salo" (Asado)
Yo: Hombre de cultura, jugando Mitos y Leyendas en los mall

[cristinalopezpalazon]

Soy de España y nunca he entendido porque dicen que el español de Chile cuesta de entender. Aqui en España hay muchos argentinos y quizas hemos estado mas expuestos a otros acentos como el de mexico, colombia, argentina etc y de chile no tanto pero una vez ya sabes algunas palabras en particular que se usan yo lo entiendo muy bien. De hecho creo que el castellano del sur de españa en andalucía es bastante mas rapido, tambien se comen sonidos y puede ser bastante dificil de entender a veces.

[BrendaBrandt-il]

I love the British guy, because he was very honest .
We all go through this "feeling stupid" face, while learning another language .

[lucaschacon]

Seems like the Portuguese guy never tried Chilean seafood

[Gaboxxy]

I feel like the issue with the Portuguese dude was mainly a matter of expectations, which is made clear with the constant comparisons to Venezuela and Colombia. He probably came to Chile uninformed, expecting it to cater to his stereotypical view of latin america (sun-tanned and extremely outgoing people, spicy food, vibrant nigh-life, etc.), instead of just accepting Chile as it is.

It would've been much more reasonable to compare it to countries like Perú or Argentina that are much more similar culturally. He could've just said something like "Chile wasn't what I was expecting" or at the very least "I didn't like Chile", instead of just claiming that Chile is just "bad" and "weird" because it didn't meet his biased expectations. He came off as very judgemental and borderline insensitive. I wouldn't go to, say, Japan and just rant of how awful it is compared to Thailand when they are two very different cultures that just happen to be on the same continent.

[MrGrdnrmn]

My wife is Chilean - I am lucky to be married into a big traditional family from the countryside- I feel sorry for the people who say food isn't good there. Chile has the best food in South America. They just haven't commercialized it and sold their culinary culture away. Too bad for yall! That's what you get for saying a countries food sucks. Enjoy your completos while I go to my asado

[flowershower]

I love Chile from Brazil, one of my favorite countries and people

[elshelsii]

Brigido que lo que menos mencionaron es la naturaleza del país, literal que Chile se ha ganado premios consecutivos por ser el mejor pais por turismo/ aventura en el mundo. Tenemos de todo descontando lo tropical. Ríos, lagos, costa, montaña, bosques, desiertos, etc... Y el sur wn debe ser lo más bonito del mundo.

[LorissaFelicIano]

I just married a Chilean man..we live in California now..but are planning on moving to Pichilemu in 2 years. I can’t wait! I love Chile, love the people, love the food..the wine is amazing. Geographically it’s very similar to parts of CA.

[damianvillegas]

colombian food? wtf bro they put cheese in the coffe man.

[kilanspeaks]

People who’re complaining about how the guy is comparing Chile with other Latin American countries, I get you. You can see his skewed POV here at 2:04 when it shows that he holds on to stereotypes about Latin America and Asia. 🙄 Asia is such a diverse continent with nomadic tribes traversing the unforgiving deserts in West Asia, sherpas scaling the snowy peaks in the Himalayas, and islanders sailing across tropical islands in Southeast Asia. And yet Hong Kong is supposed to be the ultimate representative of all that? Obviously the man likes to put things in boxes, and the boxes reek of racism born out of old Western Imperialism.

[NWJoyBoy]

el invierno es lo más hermoso de Chile, la cordillera nevada cuando le llega la luz del atardecer es un espectaculo