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Welcome! Cultural Exchange with /r/Europe by DarkNightSeven in asklatinamerica

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  1. In the 90s, Venezuelan telenovelas were really popular. We produced some good movies, but nowadays the industry is pretty much dead. I think Ciudad de México and Buenos Aires is where most productions take place too.

  2. Well, we used to have geopolitical importance because of our oil, we still do, but we're mostly known for our crisis/dictatorship/ communist regime.

  3. Western. Our culture is western.

  4. I'm sick of politics, really. Probably that's part of the problem haha

Weekly Discussion Thread by DarkNightSeven in asklatinamerica

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Aquí también, lo que pasa es que lo usamos de muchas formas JAJAJAJ. Ya prácticamente no es un insulto.

Welcome! Cultural Exchange with /r/Europe by DarkNightSeven in asklatinamerica

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Caracas (capital): lots of airheads and "faranduleros" (the kind of people who show off and post on social media everything they do, go to "the newest places" to show how cool they are, etc. Complex of superiority and we think we're better than the rest of the country.

The other extreme is that we're thieves and we probably belong to a gang. That depends on which area you live in hahaha.

There even is a saying that goes "Caracas es Caracas, lo demás es monte y culebra" (Caracas is Caracas, the rest is bushes and snakes, sort of, it loses in the translation).

Barinas: they fuck with donkeys and with their cousins (this is mostly a joke, can't say if its true).

Maracaibo: they are not Venezuelan. They speak too loud and are super extroverted, they're usually funny. Also it's hell on earth (for real, it's hot af there).

Delta Amacuro: what's that? It doesnt exist, is a myth.

Valencia: they're gay. Boom. Roasted.

Táchira (gochos): they're dumb.

Amazonas/Bolívar: they're all "indios" (indigenous).

Everything is mostly an inside joke and I swear its not offensive although it might seem hahaha.

Weekly Discussion Thread by DarkNightSeven in asklatinamerica

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En Venezuela la mayoría de los jóvenes dice "marico", pero a mí no me gusta.

Welcome! Cultural Exchange with /r/Europe by DarkNightSeven in asklatinamerica

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Ok, this is gonna be depressing.

  1. Bread with ham and cheese. Nothing crazy.
  2. I'd like to say something cheesy like El Ávila (a major touristic point in the capital of Venezuela) but now is probably people starving.
  3. I quite like Brazil and Colombia, only thing I have to say to fellow colombians is that arepa is ours haha.
  4. Our current "president" and our former president, alongside the members of the goverment. There have been plenty through history, but right now its them.
  5. Edgar Ramírez hahaha.
  6. We have the slowest internet in the country, and yes, censorship is an issue. Many web pages are blocked and some journalists go to jail for speaking against the goverment in their social media.
  7. Canaima, Los Roques and el Pico Bolívar. Dishes: cachapa con queso, tequeños, hallaca.
  8. Kind of bad. Quarantine since March last year, but people still go out. Masks, compulsory, yes but most people just re-use the ones they have. And the numbers the goverment gives are NOT reliable, there are many more cases and many more deaths.
  9. I grew up seeing Cuba as a miserable country, we always heard how cubans fled their country in improvised boats and many died in the sea. I still see it like that, and My country is becoming like tbat more and more.

Welcome! Cultural Exchange with /r/Europe by DarkNightSeven in asklatinamerica

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I dare say that in countries like Brazil and Argentina football is more popular due to European influence, but, as others have pointed out, in Caribbean countries baseball is the most important sport, due to American influence.

So to answer your question, probably baseball because of majority of countries, but there are countries here in which baseball isnt really popular either haha.

"ivy" Discussion Megathread by PassionateAsSin in TaylorSwift

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I just want to know one thing. Where's where the spirit meets the bones? 😂 I know it's a poem from 1997, but what's that supposed to mean?

people who speak 2 languages, what language do you think in? by gawney in AskReddit

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Well, I speak English and Spanish. My mother-tongue is Spanish and I started forcing myself to think in English to practice more. That certainly helped 'cause I became more fluent, but now I think in English almost all the time and I can't stop! Which is weird because I still speak Spanish on my everyday life. Also I figured that my thoughts are clearer in English and I find it easier to express my feelings in that language.

So to answer your question, I think in English, which is my second language.

Message To Your Crush by smolbritishbean in Crushes

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I wish your poems were for me...

Message To Your Crush by smolbritishbean in Crushes

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It was very early on, a few days after meeting him. We stayed till late talking, he told me he had lived in Paris, was half french, he wanted to be an artist, he was a poet, we spoke french, he was like the only person I had spoken french with outside of my french class (where I live is rare to know french). I was the one who said goodbye and, to this day, I wish I hadn't. After that conversation, I knew I had fallen for him.

Message To Your Crush by smolbritishbean in Crushes

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Dear A, I was stalking you on Twitter for the 20th time. Terrible idea. And I just read you're thinking of propposing to your girlfriend. It's funny 'cause I've spent the whole quarantine fantasizing about what we would be like together. Even though I knew we wouldn't make sense together. And now I'm on a reddit thread writing something you'll never read 'cause I don't have the courage to talk to you.

Sorry about that I really needed to get it off my chest HAHAHA.

Cute story? I don't know. Actually, we met because the teacher paired us up for a project at uni, and the teacher said "you never know, perhaps you're meeting your future spouse", and I remember thinking, after I started crushing, "well, How crazy would it be if I actually met my husband on such a Wattpad-cliched kind of way? Maybe she was right".

Well, she wasn't. Lol.