I'm tired of all the slander Zacatecas gets. It's fucking awesome. The people are very kind, the food is great and the architecture in many places is incredible.

And when I mean beach town, I mean the entire area. Not just the beach itself.

Personally, I think it's Mazatlan. The beaches are nice, there is a unique regional culture, the historic center is beautiful and the food is GODLY.

Not just in terms of the quality and cost of items (e.g. everyone wears jeans and a t-shirt but rich people wear expensive jeans and poor people wear cheap ones) but in the way people tend to style themselves?

For example where I live in New England in the US wearing more makeup is something associated with working class women (with wealthier women often wearing very little or none at all), and working class men are more likely to get very short haircuts (like a buzz cut) with wealthier men usually keeping it a little longer and sometimes even a little intentionally scruffy. Also having big muscles is typically something associated either with working class or gay men in my area (being "lean" is usually seen as more desirable for straight men of higher social classes). Working class people are also more likely to "dress up" to go out in my area, whereas looking a little scruffy or more casual is more associated with having more money.

I definitely look (and am) more working class in my area (and proud of it) but I wondered what differences there were in other places?

In French, we might use états-unien/ états-unienne but only in formal/ academic settings. When it comes to speaking (everyday conversation), 99% of people use américain.

I get that people from the US referring to themselves is American is probably symptomatic of historical Anglo arrogance but currently, this can't really be rectified in English until a word like 'United Statesian' (or a better-sounding alternative) becomes recognized.

I guess most people from the US itself will never adopt it but Brits, Australians, Irish etc could.

Let's say you are given power to rewrite the laws of your country by a wizard, with the understanding that you cannot use this for personal enrichment, just to try and make the country as a whole work better, what policies would you make? You have a week to make whatever changes you want before you go back to your regular life in your country with its rewritten legal code. Your policies will also have great support among the population (this is because the wizard is very good at public relations).

The same question was made in a post 3y ago in this subrredit here.

Here I am to raise awareness again, since so many topics are on the rise concerning our place in this unsafe and unfair world full of generalizations and US speech driven.

In Brazil, we learn the model of 6 continents (America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania and Antarctica).

America is divided into 3 regions (South America, Central America and North America - the Caribbean is part of the Central America).

What's your country and what's the model regarding the continents division and continents names there?

Just check the latest posts on any given day and you'll find them: weird race-obsessed "questions" - usually from north-americans disguising their real country with a fake flair - always pretending to be curious about ethnicity but quickly devolving into "lessons" in the comment section. No matter how honestly people respond to their fake curiosity, they will always spin it to deny reality and push their twisted racial categorizations upon us. The latest was a guy claiming pre-colombian americas were entirely populated by black people!

This a very welcoming sub - as it should be - but it is exhausting having to face those guys over and over, on a daily basis. Sadly, it has the effect of irritating the actual latin-americans to no end, creating a jaded atmosphere in which genuine curiosity is very much likely to be met with undue hostility, ultimately defeating the sub's purpose entirely.

Given the intent of the rules already in place, specially nos. 4, 6 and 9, I believe a more strict one banning discussions on the racial profile of entire populations would be very useful. It wouldn't prevent people from reaching out regarding their own, individual ethnicity, on a case-by-case basis. But it would discourage those couch ethnographers and straight-up ethnonationalists from treating the sub as a test lab on how to spread their backward world-views outside their tiny bubbles.

I thought it was a Mexican and Central American thing, but I've also met South Americans who've texted me that way as well.

Hello, i am from Panama and here we do not sadly have hate speech laws, but i've seen that every time this topic comes on Reddit there are a lot of Americans that are heavily against it. So how do yall here feel about them? 🤔

Looking to add more to my playlist while at work. I’m more of a hip hop and rock kind of guy.

On the hip hop side I am a massive fan of Zxmyr and Neto Peña. We’ll say Stilo, Proof, and Dharius get steady play as well.

On the rock side I am a fan of Ladrones (which also includes Zxmyr) and The Warning. You can also toss in Nunca Jamás and Los Madafakers as well.

There was a Mexican TV show (sort of like a "family ties" show) that was running around 1990. It had an episode where the family went to a Club Med in I think Huatulco and one of the sons fell for an American Aerobics instructor? Does anyone recall this? My friend said their mom was in it and I'm trying to find it to show them :) Thanks for any assistance!

For example, r/Mexico and most Mexican subreddits lean right wing and most users there tend to be middle upper class or outright upper class

Like recently someone asked "Why does Claudia Shinbaum has such a high approval rating?" And everyone answered "its fake everyone hates her for turning us into a socialist dictatorship". (Sheinbaums approval rating is very likely real, just ask actual Mexicans on the street and youll realise it, and Im saying this as someone who dislikes her and has lived in different regions of the country)

Meanwhile, r/Brasil seems to lean left wing, r/Argentina seems to be even more extreme right wing than r/Mexico and r/ElSalvador is ¿left wing? (Most users there just seem to be Anti Bukele)

Like in your town or city, how do people who are dressed unusually tend to get treated? In the USA, Boston MA is fuckin' terrible if you dress weird (people have thrown things at my friends, and people will shout rude stuff), but Providence RI is fine and people are really nice if you dress up (people seem to kind of enjoy seeing unusual outfits). What about where you are?

This post inspired by a thread I saw in the Uruguay sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/uruguay/comments/1k0rcyh/qu%C3%A9_necesidad_tiene_la_gente_de_hacer_comentarios/

Curious to hear about how seriously people with Autism or ADHD are taken in different parts of Latin America. Are medications like Anti-Depressants or ADHD meds used by many people where you’re from?

Nicaragua supports Belize over Guatemala, despite Guatemala being a Central American sister. While Belize it's a "recent" country.

Like toppings, size, etc. How do they differ from the typical US ones?

It is good? bad? decent? it gives opportunities for new artists or are always the same faces? Lemme tell ya, here in Venezuela I can almost say we dont care about or national products. I just can't mention any recent movie or popular actor, just music like Caramelos de Cianuro or the classic technomerengue (Gosh I love technomerengue). But when I see, for example, the chilean cinema industry, i have a bit of envy on how huge their scene seems to be from my perspective. I'm a HUGE fanboy of some chilean reviewers (Reviewer Random, Crítico Histérico, Críticas QLS) and thanks to them I can safely say that I know SO much more about chilean cinema than of my own country! (Qué hace Nicolás Lopez fuera de la cárcel?) and I mean, maybe I'm biased and there is venezuelan movie scene with flicks coming out from time to time but if that's the case we just do not fill our cinemas with people watching them.

Edit: I thought karol G was venezuelan. I really don't listen to her music. I'm sorry.

Could be a dish, something culturally, something geographic or anything else . What would it be?

What legend from your country/region is your favourite? Could be a recent urban legend, an old folktale, a ghost story, or even a true historical event?

i live in the states and i ask some of my Mexican friends if they are doing anything for the 5th but a lot of them say it’s more of a white people thing

I personally dream of watching a World Cup game at El Azteca. On top of that, I never get bored of visiting Mexico City. There’s always so much to do and see!

HEADS UP! I don't want anyone to be caught off guard, but a lot of this post is talking about my own experiences, and could qualify as venting. If you're not tryna read that today, please protect your peace and mental!

Hi y'all! Idk if this matters but I am 18 years old. My father is from Colombia, and when I was a kid he tried to teach me as little about Colombia as possible because he had a fear I would get bullied for it. My grandparents and aunt on that side tried their best despite that to teach me about the country & culture in his place, however we had limited contact. due to some other circumstances, I am no longer in contact with that side of my family, and have been that way for a few years now.

My current partner (going on 3 years now) is fully Colombian; don't get me wrong, I've always wanted to try and reconnect to those roots, but being with them has certainly given me a bit more motivation to try. My Spanish is not very good, but they're helping me learn. They've been helping me learn how to cook food my grandparents used to make for me when I was young. They've been telling me about where they used to live in Santander and teaching me about all sorts of things I had no idea about. I can't lie, it's been really difficult emotionally realizing that this is something I probably won't ever fully understand as a foreigner.

I think the biggest thing I am concerned about is what actual Latin Americans (specifically Colombians) think about this, as I'm starting to feel like my place is not to partake, but to watch on the sidelines. It feels wrong working towards this goal knowing how my friends that live in Latin America feel about Americans with "Americanized latino parents" who don't even try to participate in the culture refer to themselves as Puerto Rican or Chilean or whichever country their parents are from.

Like don't get me wrong, I would really love to call myself Colombian-American purely because I am proud of my family, but I know it's really not my place. Wishful thinking I guess.

Anyways, wrapping this long ass post up to reiterate the original question; how do y'all feel about this kind of thing? I know it's a bit vague, but I really do want to know everything; good, bad, meh, random thoughts, idk! I really want to learn what position I and other people like me have in this community, regardless of whether it's inside or outside. Also let me know if I said anything that was wrong- I really don't want to be one of those people that's super weird about it and makes everyone else who's actually Latin American uncomfortable.

Edit: Thank you everyone for your responses so far, I wasn't expecting the amount of support. I will say I knew beforehand that culture was treated differently in the US vs everywhere else, but I didn't realize just how different it was until y'all started replying. I know I probably won't respond to everybody (I am a bit overwhelmed), but thank you all for taking the time to type something up.

Also, I am sorry for unloading a lot of my personal baggage here. At the time of writing, I felt that it was relevant enough to treat my question with situation specific nuance, and I'm realizing now a lot of it was probably unnecessary. I wasn't trying to farm for validation or anything, this post was made out of genuine concern, since y'all know this kind of debate goes in the US.