It's official! I've lived in Spain for a month...here are some culture shocks I've experienced being here so far :) #cultureshock #americaninspain #spain
We wear stockings because we usually have to walk a lot more than in the USA, so stockings are more comfortable. I feel that's the reason. Also for many of us it sucks wearing high heels without stockings lol
Ahhh, you are so cute! Thank you for sharing your experience in Spain. I am about to study abroad for the summer, and I was unsure what to expect. You've inspired me to keep notes about my experiences there!
Pantyhose or tights as they’re called in the UK are pretty common in Europe. On averages Europeans dress better and take more pride in their appearance than Americans. When I went to the USA, I was shocked by some of the fashion choices.
American fashion is certainly there but the main problem is that with how expensive things have become it is just impractical to wear designer or even higher end clothes. Nice clothes are for nice occasions, not just to wear to work or to go to walmart of all places. Besides, it probably starts from childhood as we dress kids in very inexpensive and durable clothing because they would otherwise just thrash them with how hard they like to play. My mom once bought me a nice pair of jeans and i ripped through them a week later running in the bushes.
Moving from London to Paris it was a huge shock with personal space - In Paris they will sit next to you with everything touching but in London that is far from normal
About this, it's not the same in Spain, like we stand Closer when talking and physical contact it's not that Big of a deal when you are meeting someone or talking to someone known but, we never, i repeat never, sit in someone's else table or sit Next to someone we don't know outside bus/metro (here you don't have much of an option, seats are really close together), that i only Saw It in Paris...that is shocking
I was just about to say a lot of what she said reminds me of Paris. I’m like why are people moving so close to me in line, I’ll be moving back to give them space and they move closer lol
The problem with eye contact is as follows: if you deny the other person's the "right" to look into you eyes you are likely to be untrue. We look into each others eyes because we are avoiding being found untrue and possible liars.
Omg. So happy to have found your channel and you're from Louisiana too! I literally let out a happy shriek. Grew up on the westbank but from cajun country. I hit that subscribe.
Glad to see you still thriving and enjoying your new home 🙏🏾 We have to shoot you a new intro maybe I’ll put spain on my bucket list for trips this upcoming year 😇🎥💪🏾🔥
In Spain we use to say: del cerdo me gustan hasta los andares!! Is similar as James Taylor sang: there’s something in the way she moves!! Hahaha!! Good video!!
Every culture has three (sometimes only two, but that's rare) distances of communication, one for complete strangers, one for friends and acquitances and one for lovers, family and extremely close friends. The only thing that changes is the measurament in metres or inches. American > Spanish > Japanese, for example. Americans talk to strangers from five yards away, friends no closer than five feet and they will stand close only to partners and relatives - and not too close: public displays of affection are frowned upon. Spaniards talk to strangers at 1,5m, friends at 1m or less and literal rubbing shoulders is normal for everyone that it's not just an acquitance or workmate. This is important to know, because if a Spaniard wants to befriend you, they will unconsciously approach to you in order to talk to you at "friendship distance", since speaking from to far away to a friend feels weird. If you think that they are too close and you step back to regain what you think is "friendship distance" you are sending an unequivocal vibe of "stay away from me". Then, after two years in here you will be complaining "making Spanish friends is so hard!". 😉
These are really good!! I appreciate you getting into ones that a hundred others haven’t said. Like the staring, I visited France, and Spain and I think that might be a european thing ..the American in me wanted to square up everytime and I had to remind myself to breathe so I would just stare back until they looked away lmao
wow, first thing that came to mind when you talked about the slow walking/taking time but idk if you've seen the movie "Eat Pray Love" but they touch on the topic of "doing nothing" and taking their time. "Dolce far niente" -sweetness of doing nothing. good movie 😇💫
Love this kind of culture shoks....to say from a spaniard: breakfast,nailed but; around 11/12 we have some food (tapa or small ration) and then is when is normal to drink beer ot wine...and spirits are later, after lunch if you are not a frat boy..(shots for breakfast its not a good thing even here); another thing about the pork, agree 100%, but it was not introduced to get rid of muslims instead was to probe anyone was no longer muslim (only cristians could stay...and not everyone was).....and the slow service in restaurants...the main diference with U.S. would be that the tips are shared (service,kitchen sometimes even the owner has a part) so the waiters are not so interested in work faster or better than their partners. Un saludo, que sigas disfrutando de españa...te sugiero que conozcas granada, cantabria y galicia y descubras lo diverso que puede ser este pais.
Hola! Insecto de amor ❤️🐞!! Thank you for sharing other aspects of Spain Taylor. Happy Halloween Beautiful 🔥😘🍂🧡🖤! The month flew by lol. I see and hear how humble it is lol. In Spain it's nonchalant ❤️❤️. Have a great week!
I'm from NEW YORK and there is not personal space on the subway, we are basically, like fish in cans. sidewalks are so crowded that people are pushing all the time. I agree with the other points.😁
Europeans in general, and spaniards in particular, rarely eat meat well done. We usually consider that to be overcooked. We actually call a well done beef a "shoe sole".
@@TaylorFaye A Spaniard here. I went to Argentina (you know, the Beef Country) and every time I ordered a burger rare they gave me the looks and brought it well done anyway.
Nice one. I live 10 years in Southern Spain and can agree with pretty much all of it. I only find that the guys here in the South ARE very push forward and will aproach you easily. Plus here there are seperate toilets pretty much everywhere, so curious that it is different in Madrid. Hope you are still enjoying it there 😊
Eye contact means trust. It would be suspicious if you would avoid eye contact. This would mean that you would have something to hide. Be careful if somebody enters a room and would avoid eye contact.
Wow girl, has been already a month???? Time flys so fast!!! Anyway, not only Spain is like that, few European countries, including Italy (except for traffic, traffic here is so fast) but the rest is pretty much the same….and about the pork being si popular here in Europe, the story you heard of, is 100% correct
Really nice video, I kow I reply very very late but I hope you still like Spain after a year and are enjoying it here I've been told when I studied abroad that we're very "touchy", part of our conversation is conveyed a lot with our hands and arms (less than italians though) when talking and together with not being as concious of personal space we tend to touch other people's shoulders, arms, hugging, the famous two kisses on the cheeks, etc. I've been told it makes people uncomfortable Also the pork story is not how I leant it, but it's like the chiken and the egg, who came first?. As far as I know Spain has always been keen on pork, rabbit and beef because they're indigenous, like Romans (Spain has deep Roman history) we always enjoyed them (wine too), but after the Muslim invasion and ocupation seeing who ate or didn't eat pork was a good indication of which ones were Muslim/pro Muslim and who weren't during the Reconquista
Those are not co-ed bathrooms. Those are two separate toilets (men & women) sharing a sink, probably because of lack of space. The sink are is "common", but the toilet area is definitely separate.
Very interesting video. The love for the pig goes back a long time, even from the time of the Romans. In fact, when the local population converted to Islam, many couldn't stop eating pork even though it was prohibited. There are writings in which it was said there were times when Al Andalus was very relaxed and permissive and they ate pork and especially alcohol, as shown by the many poems dedicated to wine in these times. It's true that when the Jews were forced to convert to Christianity, they had to prove that their conversion was real so they'd hang chorizo and sausages on their doors, including pork in their recipes (the famous "cocido" and "lentejas") and even cleaning the meat of pig in public. Those were dark times that are thankfully long gone, but pig love is totally a long-ago cultural thing lol. Hope you enjoy your stay in Spain : )
Interesting! Next time you can try in spanish, what about a vídeo telling things you like and things you dont but..in spanish?? 😂😂 I follow you if you make it
The two kisses on the cheek are a French heritage. Since the 18th century, when the Spanish monarchy was occupied by a French family (Bourbons), many of their customs began to be imitated in Spain.
I don't think Spanish love for pork has to do with Muslims. Also important to note that the Muslims were invaders and occupiers of Spain. They were not native, so there was nothing dark about them leaving.
Cuando los musulmanes estuvieron en la península (700 años!) España no existía como tal. Fueron tan invasores como los romanos, los celtas, los fenicios, los iberos, o cualquier otro pueblo que pasó por aquí
@@bre_me So we're all. Half of the heritage of a Spaniard is from roman invaders, the other half from arab invaders. Very few genetic traces of the gauls and other prerromanic invaders. Everyone who lives anywhere descends from people who invaded that land when it was already inhabited by someone else - who was an invader, also.
Woman, wherever you go, THEY GON STARE AT YOU!!!! Lol!!! I BET YOU SOMETIMES STARE AT YOU!!!! Lmao!!!! You’re gorgeous!!!!! Leave that pork alone though, it’s cool for them but not for you. Shalom Sis
Many of Your cultural shocks, is unfortunately your lack of travel outside of USA, about pork consumption, maybe you don't want go to Germany, is bigger there, Poland, France, Italy and the prosciutto (jamon serrano in Spain)Hungary, why????, for centuries was the cheapest meat everyone can afford, not because be opposite for the moors or Arabs, please take the opportunity to be un a country with 2000 more years of civilization
“Late night snacks”. As an American myself, even I find it crazy and I generally eat late. Half the time too late but still late. For me 9pm is early for dinner but that’s late for an average American
We wear stockings because we usually have to walk a lot more than in the USA, so stockings are more comfortable. I feel that's the reason. Also for many of us it sucks wearing high heels without stockings lol
Interesting "culture shocks". Sounds like Spaniards are stress free individuals.
Thanks for sharing your experience in Spain.
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Ahhh, you are so cute! Thank you for sharing your experience in Spain. I am about to study abroad for the summer, and I was unsure what to expect. You've inspired me to keep notes about my experiences there!
This is interesting.. I’ve always wanted to go to Spain, it seems like a peaceful and pretty place. Glad you’re enjoying it & adjusting so far ❤️
Thank you❤
Pantyhose or tights as they’re called in the UK are pretty common in Europe. On averages Europeans dress better and take more pride in their appearance than Americans. When I went to the USA, I was shocked by some of the fashion choices.
American fashion is certainly there but the main problem is that with how expensive things have become it is just impractical to wear designer or even higher end clothes. Nice clothes are for nice occasions, not just to wear to work or to go to walmart of all places. Besides, it probably starts from childhood as we dress kids in very inexpensive and durable clothing because they would otherwise just thrash them with how hard they like to play. My mom once bought me a nice pair of jeans and i ripped through them a week later running in the bushes.
also americans are exhausted and working like all of the time :/@@alexzander7386
Um people in the UK cannot dress…
Moving from London to Paris it was a huge shock with personal space - In Paris they will sit next to you with everything touching but in London that is far from normal
About this, it's not the same in Spain, like we stand Closer when talking and physical contact it's not that Big of a deal when you are meeting someone or talking to someone known but, we never, i repeat never, sit in someone's else table or sit Next to someone we don't know outside bus/metro (here you don't have much of an option, seats are really close together), that i only Saw It in Paris...that is shocking
I was just about to say a lot of what she said reminds me of Paris. I’m like why are people moving so close to me in line, I’ll be moving back to give them space and they move closer lol
The problem with eye contact is as follows: if you deny the other person's the "right" to look into you eyes you are likely to be untrue. We look into each others eyes because we are avoiding being found untrue and possible liars.
The thing is that we are taugh since child to keep eye contact to show interest and honesty.
Omg. So happy to have found your channel and you're from Louisiana too! I literally let out a happy shriek. Grew up on the westbank but from cajun country. I hit that subscribe.
"Cured pork" maybe jamón, chorizo or salchichón? 🙂
Lovely video. Glad you are happy among us. Greetings from Madrid. And Happy New Year!
Y lomo
Glad to see you still thriving and enjoying your new home 🙏🏾 We have to shoot you a new intro maybe I’ll put spain on my bucket list for trips this upcoming year 😇🎥💪🏾🔥
Thank you and for sure! Let me know when you’re here haha
Very informative
In Spain we use to say: del cerdo me gustan hasta los andares!! Is similar as James Taylor sang: there’s something in the way she moves!! Hahaha!! Good video!!
Every culture has three (sometimes only two, but that's rare) distances of communication, one for complete strangers, one for friends and acquitances and one for lovers, family and extremely close friends. The only thing that changes is the measurament in metres or inches. American > Spanish > Japanese, for example. Americans talk to strangers from five yards away, friends no closer than five feet and they will stand close only to partners and relatives - and not too close: public displays of affection are frowned upon. Spaniards talk to strangers at 1,5m, friends at 1m or less and literal rubbing shoulders is normal for everyone that it's not just an acquitance or workmate.
This is important to know, because if a Spaniard wants to befriend you, they will unconsciously approach to you in order to talk to you at "friendship distance", since speaking from to far away to a friend feels weird. If you think that they are too close and you step back to regain what you think is "friendship distance" you are sending an unequivocal vibe of "stay away from me". Then, after two years in here you will be complaining "making Spanish friends is so hard!". 😉
Well, if the metro is full and there's a seat next to you where do you expect the people to seat in order to respect your personal space ?
These are really good!! I appreciate you getting into ones that a hundred others haven’t said. Like the staring, I visited France, and Spain and I think that might be a european thing ..the American in me wanted to square up everytime and I had to remind myself to breathe so I would just stare back until they looked away lmao
Congratulations on hitting the one month mark 👏👏👏👏😊😊😊😊
Thank you! 🫶🏽
@@TaylorFaye your welcome 😊😊😊
wow, first thing that came to mind when you talked about the slow walking/taking time but idk if you've seen the movie "Eat Pray Love" but they touch on the topic of "doing nothing" and taking their time. "Dolce far niente" -sweetness of doing nothing. good movie 😇💫
I’ll have to check it out, thank you! 💕
Love this kind of culture shoks....to say from a spaniard: breakfast,nailed but; around 11/12 we have some food (tapa or small ration) and then is when is normal to drink beer ot wine...and spirits are later, after lunch if you are not a frat boy..(shots for breakfast its not a good thing even here); another thing about the pork, agree 100%, but it was not introduced to get rid of muslims instead was to probe anyone was no longer muslim (only cristians could stay...and not everyone was).....and the slow service in restaurants...the main diference with U.S. would be that the tips are shared (service,kitchen sometimes even the owner has a part) so the waiters are not so interested in work faster or better than their partners. Un saludo, que sigas disfrutando de españa...te sugiero que conozcas granada, cantabria y galicia y descubras lo diverso que puede ser este pais.
Hola! Insecto de amor ❤️🐞!! Thank you for sharing other aspects of Spain Taylor. Happy Halloween Beautiful 🔥😘🍂🧡🖤! The month flew by lol. I see and hear how humble it is lol. In Spain it's nonchalant ❤️❤️. Have a great week!
Thanks so much my love, you too! ❤️
@@TaylorFaye You're more than welcome Honey, thanks as well 😘💞💞
I'm from NEW YORK and there is not personal space on the subway, we are basically, like fish in cans. sidewalks are so crowded that people are pushing all the time.
I agree with the other points.😁
Many of these things are common all over Europe, except maybe the UK. They seem to be more similar culturally to Americans than other Europeans.
Europeans in general, and spaniards in particular, rarely eat meat well done. We usually consider that to be overcooked. We actually call a well done beef a "shoe sole".
Wowwwww, I never knew that. Thank you for sharing!
@@TaylorFaye A Spaniard here. I went to Argentina (you know, the Beef Country) and every time I ordered a burger rare they gave me the looks and brought it well done anyway.
Nice one. I live 10 years in Southern Spain and can agree with pretty much all of it. I only find that the guys here in the South ARE very push forward and will aproach you easily. Plus here there are seperate toilets pretty much everywhere, so curious that it is different in Madrid. Hope you are still enjoying it there 😊
Eye contact means trust.
It would be suspicious if you would avoid eye contact. This would mean that you would have something to hide.
Be careful if somebody enters a room and would avoid eye contact.
When you are at bars you have to shout at bartenders for them to pay you attention 😂.
YES, WHEN YOU GO TO ANOTHER COUNTRY, YOU MAY NOT ALWAYS, LIKE HOW THINGS ARE THERE BUT YOU HAVE TO ADJUST TO THE CULTURE, OF THAT COUNTRY.
What time do they wake up if they eat so late? Very interesting
They wake up early, at normal hours. Work and school start at 8:30, 9
Wow girl, has been already a month???? Time flys so fast!!! Anyway, not only Spain is like that, few European countries, including Italy (except for traffic, traffic here is so fast) but the rest is pretty much the same….and about the pork being si popular here in Europe, the story you heard of, is 100% correct
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Really nice video, I kow I reply very very late but I hope you still like Spain after a year and are enjoying it here
I've been told when I studied abroad that we're very "touchy", part of our conversation is conveyed a lot with our hands and arms (less than italians though) when talking and together with not being as concious of personal space we tend to touch other people's shoulders, arms, hugging, the famous two kisses on the cheeks, etc. I've been told it makes people uncomfortable
Also the pork story is not how I leant it, but it's like the chiken and the egg, who came first?. As far as I know Spain has always been keen on pork, rabbit and beef because they're indigenous, like Romans (Spain has deep Roman history) we always enjoyed them (wine too), but after the Muslim invasion and ocupation seeing who ate or didn't eat pork was a good indication of which ones were Muslim/pro Muslim and who weren't during the Reconquista
Happy Halloween, Taylor!
Those are not co-ed bathrooms. Those are two separate toilets (men & women) sharing a sink, probably because of lack of space. The sink are is "common", but the toilet area is definitely separate.
Very interesting video. The love for the pig goes back a long time, even from the time of the Romans. In fact, when the local population converted to Islam, many couldn't stop eating pork even though it was prohibited. There are writings in which it was said there were times when Al Andalus was very relaxed and permissive and they ate pork and especially alcohol, as shown by the many poems dedicated to wine in these times. It's true that when the Jews were forced to convert to Christianity, they had to prove that their conversion was real so they'd hang chorizo and sausages on their doors, including pork in their recipes (the famous "cocido" and "lentejas") and even cleaning the meat of pig in public. Those were dark times that are thankfully long gone, but pig love is totally a long-ago cultural thing lol. Hope you enjoy your stay in Spain : )
I know they love u in spain!!!
So pretty 😍
Thank you! 💕
What are does? So you there for the future?
Interesting! Next time you can try in spanish, what about a vídeo telling things you like and things you dont but..in spanish?? 😂😂 I follow you if you make it
The two kisses on the cheek are a French heritage. Since the 18th century, when the Spanish monarchy was occupied by a French family (Bourbons), many of their customs began to be imitated in Spain.
They smoke to many cigarettes out there,they will kill u with second hand smoke shit was annoying
muy interesante conocer esto para los españoles. Gracias
Taylor so beautiful
Jamon, chorizo?
I don't think Spanish love for pork has to do with Muslims. Also important to note that the Muslims were invaders and occupiers of Spain. They were not native, so there was nothing dark about them leaving.
Cuando los musulmanes estuvieron en la península (700 años!) España no existía como tal. Fueron tan invasores como los romanos, los celtas, los fenicios, los iberos, o cualquier otro pueblo que pasó por aquí
Los musulmanes no invadieron España ya que no existía,invadieron la Península Ibérica en la que actualmente hay dos países que son Portugal y España
@@juanmovijuanmovi4143 Semantics. They were invaders and occupiers nonetheless.
@@bre_me So we're all. Half of the heritage of a Spaniard is from roman invaders, the other half from arab invaders. Very few genetic traces of the gauls and other prerromanic invaders. Everyone who lives anywhere descends from people who invaded that land when it was already inhabited by someone else - who was an invader, also.
@@rafarequeni822 That's not true. Spaniards have very little Arab genetics and culture. The only traces of Arabic are in names and some words.
No sé en qué lugar habrás meado tú...
Woman, wherever you go, THEY GON STARE AT YOU!!!! Lol!!! I BET YOU SOMETIMES STARE AT YOU!!!! Lmao!!!! You’re gorgeous!!!!! Leave that pork alone though, it’s cool for them but not for you. Shalom Sis
Thank you 🥺❤️❤️
Why isn't cedar meat good for her?
if you say it because of obesity, you should come to Spain. maybe he was in for a surprise.
@@albertomartin7576 I say that pork isn’t good for her because her God, The Most High God of Israel says for His people to not even touch pork.
@@lionpreyproductions6529 ok ok...
@@albertomartin7576 more than likely she’s an Israelite according to The Bible
Many of Your cultural shocks, is unfortunately your lack of travel outside of USA, about pork consumption, maybe you don't want go to Germany, is bigger there, Poland, France, Italy and the prosciutto (jamon serrano in Spain)Hungary, why????, for centuries was the cheapest meat everyone can afford, not because be opposite for the moors or Arabs, please take the opportunity to be un a country with 2000 more years of civilization
So when Americans eat at 6 p.m., they call it “dinner...”
And what is it called everything they eat after that until they go to bed?
“Late night snacks”. As an American myself, even I find it crazy and I generally eat late. Half the time too late but still late. For me 9pm is early for dinner but that’s late for an average American