Chile y Estados Unidos: ¿Cuáles son algunas similitudes y diferencias ?
2. La propina
1. En Estados Unidos, al igual que en Chile existe la costumbre de dar propina a los meseros en un restaurante. En Chile, la propina sugerida es del 10% del total del valor.
Aquí en Estados Unidos, todavía no puedo entender completamente cuánta propina debo dejar en el restaurante.
In the US, just as it happens in Chile, there's the custom of leaving a tip when you go eat at a restaurant. In Chile the tip constitutes the 10% of the final value.
Here in the US, I still haven't managed to figure out how much money you have to leave for a tip.
3. Meals/Las comidas
In the US people eat lunch very early (usually at around noon). In Chile, we usually eat lunch at around 2pm.
In the US people eat dinner at around 5-6pm. In Chile at around 6-7pm we have what we call once (a kind of breakfast but in the afternoon-evening). Then, we eat dinner at around 9-10pm.
Esta es mi primera vez en Estados Unidos y en este tiempo lejos de Chile, he aprendido muchas cosas acerca de la cultura estadounidense que no conocía anteriormente. Gracias a esto, he podido darme cuenta de que Chile y Estados Unidos no son tan distintos como yo pensaba. Esta primera entrada está dedicada a comentar algunas de las similitudes y diferencias entre ambos países que he podido establecer en estos 4 meses.This is my first time in the United States, and in this time away from Chile, I have learned many things about US culture that I did not know before. Thanks to this I have been able to realize that Chile and the US are not as different as I thought and we actually share many similarities.
Saludos
Una diferencia grande entre Chile y Estados Unidos - y que sé que también es un problema para los estudiantes extranjeros que deciden viajar a Chile- tiene que ver con los saludos.
En Chile, nosotros tenemos la costumbre de saludar con un beso en la mejilla, este no es un beso real sino que en realidad le damos un beso al aire, pero sin duda involucra mucha más cercanía y es una práctica que se realiza incluso con desconocidos.
En Estados Unidos, la gente no se saluda con un beso en la mejilla sino que la gente estrecha la mano. En ese sentido, creo que aquí los saludos son mucho más formales.
Greetings
A big difference between Chile and the US- that I know also constitutes a bit of a problem for international students going to Chile- has to do with greetings.
In Chile, when we greet someone, even if it's a stranger, we give each other a kiss on the cheek. However, this is not a real kiss, but what we really do is that we blow a kiss to the air next to the person's cheek. In this sense, it definitely involves much more closeness.
In the US, people greet each other by shaking hands. During my first weeks in the US, I had to battle my habit of giving a kiss on the cheek. Now I am getting used to shaking hands.
2. La propina
1. En Estados Unidos, al igual que en Chile existe la costumbre de dar propina a los meseros en un restaurante. En Chile, la propina sugerida es del 10% del total del valor.
Aquí en Estados Unidos, todavía no puedo entender completamente cuánta propina debo dejar en el restaurante.
In the US, just as it happens in Chile, there's the custom of leaving a tip when you go eat at a restaurant. In Chile the tip constitutes the 10% of the final value.
Here in the US, I still haven't managed to figure out how much money you have to leave for a tip.
3. Meals/Las comidas
In the US people eat lunch very early (usually at around noon). In Chile, we usually eat lunch at around 2pm.
In the US people eat dinner at around 5-6pm. In Chile at around 6-7pm we have what we call once (a kind of breakfast but in the afternoon-evening). Then, we eat dinner at around 9-10pm.
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| Once en Chile: 3rd meal of the day. |
