😅 I live in the 🇺🇸 US , but I was raised in SPAIN 🇪🇸 , wish was a CULTURAL BLESSING !!! the HUMANITY & FAMILY ties & FRIENDSHIP are a PRIVILEGE!!! that you will FULLY APPRECIATE when you move OUT !!! 🎉
It was a genuine pleasure to see families dressing themselves and their children, some barely toddlers, very smartly and joining the reset of the community in local squares just to socialise in the early evening. I was raised in Ireland and England, and whilst mam always dressed us smartly, she never took us out in the evening. After we had our tea and did our homework it was off to bed with us. Mind you back in the late 1950s and early '60s we could wander unsupervised wherever our bikes could take us. If we didn't have school the next day we just had to be back for our tea. I often disappeared for for hours by myself just exploring, or snuck into a churchyard miles from home, a Proddy Church at that :-) just to throw sticks at to down conkers, or go scrumping . I remember three of the greatest presents I received as a child. The first was my first bike when I was 8 birthday. Back then Green Shield Stamps were a big thing. Mam filled 18 books of stamps to get me that bike:-) The other two wee Christmas present, the first was a Spirograph when I was 9 and the second was a watch when I was 12. We had less than kids have today, but we were loved and cared for. Seeing children being so included in Spanish life reminds me of what it felt like when I was young. Kids today are basically the same the same as they've always been, I can't stand when people of my age, 68, say they have an easier life. It a different time, and kids face different challenges. But in Spain the sense of community, especially in smaller towns seems to have been retained better. My God, I sound like my mam reminiscing about how she and her brothers went lamping for rabbits. Does any of the above make sense to you?
it does if you're a new born baby,stuck on a desert island with nothing else to do but read every day and you're expected to live for four thousand years!
Remember that Spain uses Germany's timezone, which means you have to substract two hours to the clock to get the real solar time. So 9am is really 7am, 2pm is actually 12pm and you're sending your child to bed at 6pm, which is indeed a bit early, even for a 4yo.
Yo soy español, del levante, y cuando suelo quedar, llego a la hora que he quedado, con máximo 10 min de diferencia por si hay tráfico o algo, y eso de que siempre vamos de punta en blanco o que no vamos con el pelo mojado, pues no es mi caso. Me gusta ir duchado a los sitios, eso sí, sin oler a sobaquin, y tampoco voy desnudo por la calle, pero voy bastante informal siempre y lo mismo los que me rodean... Lo de los horarios de comida es que nosotros comemos más tarde que el resto de europeos, pero tenemos nuestro desayuno ligero, sobre las 5:00-6:00-7:00-8:00, dependiendo si trabajas o no, luego, muchos disfrutan del almuerzo, sobre todo los madrugadores, y el almuerzo implica algo más consistente que el desayuno, como un bocadillo acompañado de aceitunas, cacahuetes, ensalada... sobre las 10:00 o 11:00. Con eso, se llega a la hora de la comida sin problemas, sobre las 14:00. Los niños hacen merienda, sobre las 17:00 o 18:00. Y la cena se hace tarde, sobre las 21:00 o 22:00, aunque la cena tiende a ser ligera, pero hay quien se mete un atracón.
It´s quite normal for kids to be playing in the streets while their parents are having a drink in the terrace of some bar even at 10pm in summer (of course the kids are always nearby and at sight). As for eating time, the truth is that we eat 5 times a day: desayuno (breakfast), almuerzo (around 11am), lunch (2pm), merienda (6pm) and the supper (9:30-10pm). In Spain, we value more our time with familiy and friends than living just to work. We work to live., not live to work ;)
Very typical cultural shocks...I live and was born in Spain and i have dinner at 8pm...lunch at 1pm...It is also quite common. Difficult to generalize. Plus north is different to south, east from west.
Minute 1:54 l am with you. Things are open for interpretation, that is why the laws go into much detail, in order to avoid it. When new situations become apparent, then ... Guess what ... New legislation is required. If you befriend a lawyer you will notice it ... 🎉
Tal vez si los nativo hablantes ingleses tuviesen la necesidad profesional de aprender otro idioma, y ello les obligara a asistir a clases después del trabajo, tal vez no sé extrañarían de lo tarde que cenamos y nos vamos a la cama. Qué a mí también me gustaría irme a la cama a las 20 horas, nos ha jodido!! Y, por cierto, a qué hora acuden al gimnasio los nativo hablantes ingleses? Lo hacen a las 5 de la mañana? No que yo sepa... Tal vez hacemos todo muy tarde porque sencillamente hacemos más cosas que vosotros los nativo hablantes ingleses.
I had a massive culture shock when I went to Spain last year,they use toilets,soap and water over there!I couldn't believe it!I had to be put on beta blockers just to stop me from shaking!
@motormouthalmighty Most common, the use of toilet paper when going to the bathroom, and AFTER that, it's used soap and water to wash hands. I even know some people who goes to the bathroom to do their things, then uses toilet paper, wash their hands, and after that, they take a shower. But they do this because they are at their home and can do it.
@@clastos well I didn't know that!around here,it is a very primitive environment.we just do our toilet business in ditches in the middle of the street.it's absolutely horrendous.it's fourteenth century standards of hygiene .we have typhus,typhoid,cholera,syphilis,compylobacter and gonorrhoea also known as horror goner!life expectancy is only fourteen years of age for a male and ninety six for a female!the other day a local woman took her son to see his school's career officer and told her that he wanted to train to become a paralegal and eventually an m.p.adolf Eichmann just appeared from nowhere,from behind him and slit his throat from ear to ear.he said"aaaah nobody gives a damn!he would have been dead before his next birthday anyway!I've only survived for thousands and thousands of days because I'm a multi billionaire who lives in a magnificent,fabulous huge mansion,the size of Buckingham palace,with umpteen servants,staff,cooks,cleaners and mod cons.i was chatting to our local MP the other day.he told me,that if I had been born a pauper,I would have died in 1965.before I was even born.i was shocked but not surprised!he might have only been twelve years old but he could already speak four languages!English,American,Canadian and Australian!he had an IQ of 46.more than the entire rest of us combined!
😅 I live in the 🇺🇸 US , but I was raised in SPAIN 🇪🇸 , wish was a CULTURAL BLESSING !!! the HUMANITY & FAMILY ties & FRIENDSHIP are a PRIVILEGE!!! that you will FULLY APPRECIATE when you move OUT !!! 🎉
It was a genuine pleasure to see families dressing themselves and their children, some barely toddlers, very smartly and joining the reset of the community in local squares just to socialise in the early evening. I was raised in Ireland and England, and whilst mam always dressed us smartly, she never took us out in the evening. After we had our tea and did our homework it was off to bed with us. Mind you back in the late 1950s and early '60s we could wander unsupervised wherever our bikes could take us. If we didn't have school the next day we just had to be back for our tea. I often disappeared for for hours by myself just exploring, or snuck into a churchyard miles from home, a Proddy Church at that :-) just to throw sticks at to down conkers, or go scrumping .
I remember three of the greatest presents I received as a child. The first was my first bike when I was 8 birthday. Back then Green Shield Stamps were a big thing. Mam filled 18 books of stamps to get me that bike:-) The other two wee Christmas present, the first was a Spirograph when I was 9 and the second was a watch when I was 12.
We had less than kids have today, but we were loved and cared for. Seeing children being so included in Spanish life reminds me of what it felt like when I was young. Kids today are basically the same the same as they've always been, I can't stand when people of my age, 68, say they have an easier life. It a different time, and kids face different challenges.
But in Spain the sense of community, especially in smaller towns seems to have been retained better.
My God, I sound like my mam reminiscing about how she and her brothers went lamping for rabbits.
Does any of the above make sense to you?
it does if you're a new born baby,stuck on a desert island with nothing else to do but read every day and you're expected to live for four thousand years!
Remember that Spain uses Germany's timezone, which means you have to substract two hours to the clock to get the real solar time. So 9am is really 7am, 2pm is actually 12pm and you're sending your child to bed at 6pm, which is indeed a bit early, even for a 4yo.
Yo soy español, del levante, y cuando suelo quedar, llego a la hora que he quedado, con máximo 10 min de diferencia por si hay tráfico o algo, y eso de que siempre vamos de punta en blanco o que no vamos con el pelo mojado, pues no es mi caso. Me gusta ir duchado a los sitios, eso sí, sin oler a sobaquin, y tampoco voy desnudo por la calle, pero voy bastante informal siempre y lo mismo los que me rodean... Lo de los horarios de comida es que nosotros comemos más tarde que el resto de europeos, pero tenemos nuestro desayuno ligero, sobre las 5:00-6:00-7:00-8:00, dependiendo si trabajas o no, luego, muchos disfrutan del almuerzo, sobre todo los madrugadores, y el almuerzo implica algo más consistente que el desayuno, como un bocadillo acompañado de aceitunas, cacahuetes, ensalada... sobre las 10:00 o 11:00. Con eso, se llega a la hora de la comida sin problemas, sobre las 14:00. Los niños hacen merienda, sobre las 17:00 o 18:00. Y la cena se hace tarde, sobre las 21:00 o 22:00, aunque la cena tiende a ser ligera, pero hay quien se mete un atracón.
It´s quite normal for kids to be playing in the streets while their parents are having a drink in the terrace of some bar even at 10pm in summer (of course the kids are always nearby and at sight). As for eating time, the truth is that we eat 5 times a day: desayuno (breakfast), almuerzo (around 11am), lunch (2pm), merienda (6pm) and the supper (9:30-10pm). In Spain, we value more our time with familiy and friends than living just to work. We work to live., not live to work ;)
Very typical cultural shocks...I live and was born in Spain and i have dinner at 8pm...lunch at 1pm...It is also quite common. Difficult to generalize. Plus north is different to south, east from west.
I cannot agree more. There are Stark regional differences, ... like the landscape.
Minute 1:54 l am with you. Things are open for interpretation, that is why the laws go into much detail, in order to avoid it. When new situations become apparent, then ... Guess what ... New legislation is required. If you befriend a lawyer you will notice it ...
🎉
Don’t agree with the well dressed part. In Spain people dress pretty causal.
Tal vez si los nativo hablantes ingleses tuviesen la necesidad profesional de aprender otro idioma, y ello les obligara a asistir a clases después del trabajo, tal vez no sé extrañarían de lo tarde que cenamos y nos vamos a la cama. Qué a mí también me gustaría irme a la cama a las 20 horas, nos ha jodido!!
Y, por cierto, a qué hora acuden al gimnasio los nativo hablantes ingleses? Lo hacen a las 5 de la mañana? No que yo sepa...
Tal vez hacemos todo muy tarde porque sencillamente hacemos más cosas que vosotros los nativo hablantes ingleses.
I had a massive culture shock when I went to Spain last year,they use toilets,soap and water over there!I couldn't believe it!I had to be put on beta blockers just to stop me from shaking!
We use beta blockers too 😅
@motormouthalmighty
Most common, the use of toilet paper when going to the bathroom, and AFTER that, it's used soap and water to wash hands.
I even know some people who goes to the bathroom to do their things, then uses toilet paper, wash their hands, and after that, they take a shower. But they do this because they are at their home and can do it.
@@clastos well I didn't know that!around here,it is a very primitive environment.we just do our toilet business in ditches in the middle of the street.it's absolutely horrendous.it's fourteenth century standards of hygiene .we have typhus,typhoid,cholera,syphilis,compylobacter and gonorrhoea also known as horror goner!life expectancy is only fourteen years of age for a male and ninety six for a female!the other day a local woman took her son to see his school's career officer and told her that he wanted to train to become a paralegal and eventually an m.p.adolf Eichmann just appeared from nowhere,from behind him and slit his throat from ear to ear.he said"aaaah nobody gives a damn!he would have been dead before his next birthday anyway!I've only survived for thousands and thousands of days because I'm a multi billionaire who lives in a magnificent,fabulous huge mansion,the size of Buckingham palace,with umpteen servants,staff,cooks,cleaners and mod cons.i was chatting to our local MP the other day.he told me,that if I had been born a pauper,I would have died in 1965.before I was even born.i was shocked but not surprised!he might have only been twelve years old but he could already speak four languages!English,American,Canadian and Australian!he had an IQ of 46.more than the entire rest of us combined!