Culture tips - Uruguay Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
Not everybody, but a lot of the people that are more proper, I guess you could say, do not like it when you wear hats in their house. They see it as a sign of disrespect, so just make sure that you take your hat off when you enter. Whenever you go into somebody's house, goes into someone else's house, they say permiso, which is like permission, and that's kind of just acknowledging that you're walking into their house. Another part of their culture that's really cool is you do not knock on the door. You normally just either stand right outside the door or if they have like a gate, a lot of the houses are kind of far away from the road, and you just stand there and you clap, and they have like super hearing because they can almost always hear it when people clap, so that that's fun. Unless you're in the city, then you will ring a doorbell.
Video 2 Transcript
Probably the biggest culture difference between here and there is people there will talk to anyone and everyone about anything and everything. So you'll meet someone on the street and they will just tell you their life story.
Video 3 Transcript
One thing is before entering anyone's house you always say permiso, which is like permission kind of like and sometimes even before like grabbing something off the table or like different things they say permiso for like lots of stuff and then also everyone greets at each other in the streets. Buen dia, todo bien, stuff like that.
Video 4 Transcript
The people, they love to help. They hate being helped. They're very prideful in that way, but they love to help other people. Everyone down there greets each other with like a kiss on the cheek, so they don't actually like kiss your cheek, but you know, they'll come up right next to your face and your cheek will touch theirs and they make a little kissing noise. It's just how they say hi. It's kind of like us giving a high five or giving a hug or something, so be prepared for that. Also, everybody just spends all day drinking a substance called mate, which is, it's kind of like tea, not exactly. Imagine like grass and hot water and they like drink it through a filtered straw. It's kind of weird, but it's just a cultural thing. Everyone does it. Friends spend time together drinking it.
Video 5 Transcript
So my culture tip for you would just be to really embrace the culture. They're pretty relaxed. They're laid-back people and as soon as you learn to just love them like they are you'll really learn to love your way. They really like soccer and so if you can get into that, even if you don't play very well, if you try to play with them they'll love it and talk to them about mate, a traditional drink.
Video 6 Transcript
A little bit of culture of Uruguay is that they love soccer. They all play soccer, so I mean that's a good thing to relate to people with if you like sports or something. They love drinking mate, which is like a tea, and that's something that they also love. They are very friendly people in general.
Video 7 Transcript
So if you haven't heard of mate, obviously you should look it up. Everyone drinks mate, it's like a religion, and it's very social. It can take forever to drink, like people just sip and pass and sip and pass. But a different cultural thing I wanted to say was, as you're walking down the street and you greet the old people in the street, they always say adios, and then um everyone else, when you're leaving them, you just say chow. But like adios is like almost only the like old people, and they always have that exact same inflection. Yeah, kind of fun.
Video 8 Transcript
So one thing that I was surprised about in terms of the culture was that a lot of people give each other besos. So it's basically just these little kisses on the cheek and it's actually really such a cool and fun part of the culture because you just feel so loved. But just realize that when you're meeting people a lot of times for the first time they'll lean in for a beso and then just realize that people are just so open and so just be prepared to be a good listener and be willing to hear about life stories because something that's so cool is that Uruguayans are just so willing to talk about their life experiences. They want to share everything with you.
