Culture shocks when I moved to Spain!

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  • @rafarequeni822
    @rafarequeni822 4 місяці тому +40

    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.

    • @mitcoes
      @mitcoes 3 місяці тому

      Just one, GMT+0 vs GMT+1=CET. Sometimes is 2 from solar time, because of winter or summer "time".
      But basically you are right.

    • @kevinallwood2730
      @kevinallwood2730 3 місяці тому +9

      Franco was responsible for this. He wanted Spain to be in same time zone as Berlin, to align with his ally Hitler. During WW2 Hitler also changed time zones in many European countries France, Holland, Belgium etc to align with Berlin. It has always amazed me that almost 100 years later, this has never been corrected. Madrid is only 3 degrees west of London so really should be on GMT yet Portugal is on GMT/BST as all these others Western European countries should be. It is why Spanish restaurants ( outside of tourist areas) open so late. Eating at 10:00pm is normal, because their body clocks say it is 8:00pm.

  • @DaveKeenan1956
    @DaveKeenan1956 5 місяців тому +29

    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?

    • @motormouthalmighty
      @motormouthalmighty 5 місяців тому

      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!

    • @enriquejaviercastillomonta1783
      @enriquejaviercastillomonta1783 3 місяці тому

      ...irlandesa!!! Eres casi...española 😂🇪🇦‼️

    • @DaveKeenan1956
      @DaveKeenan1956 3 місяці тому

      @@enriquejaviercastillomonta1783
      Ah sure I'm too tall and too pale, but boy do I love Spain and the Spanish people!

  • @manuelvila8897
    @manuelvila8897 3 місяці тому +17

    I heard a proverb from my grandparents, and it said: the richest is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least. You only live once and in Spain we give more importance to life. We work to live, not live to work.

  • @cesar_onada
    @cesar_onada 3 місяці тому +7

    ¡Nos has calado! 😅
    Me alegro mucho de que te sientas a gusto en España, con lo bueno y con lo malo. Un abrazo.

  • @pedrolardies9597
    @pedrolardies9597 3 місяці тому +5

    There is a saying in Spanish that goes, alla donde vas haz lo que ves, which refers to the fact that locals for generations adapt their schedules to the existing climatology and the ways of socialising in their community, with what is most rational in the place where they live. I invite you to have dinner before eight o'clock in the evening in August with the sun shining brightly in the sky and forty degrees Celsius, and then put your little ones to bed in those conditions.

  • @TheSimmpleTruth
    @TheSimmpleTruth 3 місяці тому +6

    You described my lifestyle, my culture. I’m enjoying listening to it. We like to have dinner super, super late and get up late too. Take life easy and enjoy it.

  • @jjhantsch8647
    @jjhantsch8647 3 місяці тому +3

    I've walked across Spain four times (Camino de Santiago) and I'm always amazed at the milkman deliveries early in the morning. Keep in mind, when hiking during the summer, getting hiking before sunrise is essential so my experience is more morning based. The fresh produce availability is also amazing.

  • @MCoelloF
    @MCoelloF 3 місяці тому +9

    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 ;)

  • @edwardvillate2112
    @edwardvillate2112 4 місяці тому +14

    😅 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 !!! 🎉

    • @David-cm4ok
      @David-cm4ok 3 місяці тому

      🙄

    • @edwardvillate2112
      @edwardvillate2112 3 місяці тому +2

      @@David-cm4ok this wasn't, for YOU 😂 ..LOL , in you're WORLD !!! it's a UFO 🛸 😂...

  • @George-rm7yw
    @George-rm7yw 3 місяці тому +2

    Your channel just popped up in my feed. Although I live in Germany and not Spain, I am an Aussie and am always happy to hear how other cultures roll.

    • @bwana-ma-coo-bah425
      @bwana-ma-coo-bah425 3 місяці тому +3

      Europe has a culture, they have song, dance, architecture and food and they are proud of it. The US has, Levi's jeans, McDonalds, mass shootings, guns and bombs and you are proud of it?

  • @drvgksa
    @drvgksa 4 місяці тому +12

    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.

    • @caballoloco100
      @caballoloco100 4 місяці тому +3

      I cannot agree more. There are stark regional differences, ... like the landscape.
      Lunch at 14h00
      Supper at 21h00 ish

    • @DanielSanchez-le3bk
      @DanielSanchez-le3bk 3 місяці тому +1

      In from north Spain, we never have lunch at 1 or dinner at 8! Lunch always from 2 and dinner about 10.............

  • @Joe3D
    @Joe3D 3 місяці тому +4

    It's not that everything happens late, it's that the clock is advanced by 2 to 3 hours year-round. Just buy another watch and delay it by 2/3 hours and follow that so you are in sync with your thoughts.

  • @jesusfernandezgarcia9449
    @jesusfernandezgarcia9449 3 місяці тому +8

    I'm never late. Never. And when someone is late, everyone thinks it is bad. I don't understand this opinion on the part of those who come to Spain. And where I live I can have a coffee at 6 in the morning. There are other worlds, but some of us don't know which ones others inhabit.

    • @enriquejaviercastillomonta1783
      @enriquejaviercastillomonta1783 3 місяці тому +1

      ... jaaaaaahaha 😂

    • @jesusfernandezgarcia9449
      @jesusfernandezgarcia9449 3 місяці тому +1

      @@enriquejaviercastillomonta1783 No sabe de qué hablo ¿verdad?

    • @enriquejaviercastillomonta1783
      @enriquejaviercastillomonta1783 3 місяці тому

      @@jesusfernandezgarcia9449 ...me pareció genial tu comentario

    • @jesusfernandezgarcia9449
      @jesusfernandezgarcia9449 3 місяці тому +1

      @@enriquejaviercastillomonta1783 Perdone entonces, entendí mal y cojo velocidad pronto, es lo que tiene la palabra escrita en estos comentarios, se presta a confusiones, y su mensaje me confundió. Encantado de conocerle ( me encanta toda la gente que me da la razón, le advierto).🙃

    • @txipiron
      @txipiron День тому

      Exacto, por desgracia hay una porción de población española que es mal educada o desconsiderada, desde luego entre mis conocidos o en entorno laboral, la puntualidad es la norma

  • @MariaNI-yf1bz
    @MariaNI-yf1bz 4 дні тому

    You mentioned some interesting habits which thb are common in other Mediterranean countries (Morocco for instance, Egypt, the Levant) as well. Beautiful content, thanks for sharing.

  • @loslaureles1883
    @loslaureles1883 3 місяці тому +2

    I agree. I've been here 21 years and am completely at home.

  • @RompehuevosCompulsivo
    @RompehuevosCompulsivo 3 місяці тому +4

    I think you are mistaking people tolerating others being late, just to avoid confrontation, for "accepting" it. Being late is frowned upon and try being late at work or to an appointment with the Administration, and you'll find out. There are people who are generally late in their social life, and are reprimanded accordingly by their friends and family.

  • @aladelta55
    @aladelta55 4 місяці тому +3

    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.

    • @motormouthalmighty
      @motormouthalmighty 3 місяці тому

      ¿Eh? ¿Por qué no comes tu cena con anticipación? ¿Antes de que la hayas comido?-eh?why not eat your dinner in advance?before you've even eaten it?

  • @javierpobletemedina4702
    @javierpobletemedina4702 Місяць тому

    wow you're so gorgeous despite i can't understand that accent your eyes are stuning

  • @iainmclean2
    @iainmclean2 3 місяці тому +1

    One thing sums up Spain. When there a four of you are given 5 tapas. When you get two coffees, you are given 3 biscuits.

  • @CarlosAlberto-ii1li
    @CarlosAlberto-ii1li 3 місяці тому +2

    What is "Cidy", the stuff that you are spouting only happens if you are foreign, you still think everything is the same as where you come from, exactly like Brits in Spain eating big fried breakfast and egg and chips, the only thing they do not remember is pub opening hours in the UK. Kids go to school at 7 am in Spain so lunch at 2pm is good. People working in the fields start at 6am and finish at 2. 30 go home and keep out of the hottest part of the day. It is sensible, no culture shock, if you been the 10 years you are used to it, i been here since 1988 and no shocks.

  • @richardlocke7264
    @richardlocke7264 3 місяці тому +3

    They have different word for everything! LOL

  • @okey9646
    @okey9646 3 місяці тому +4

    La liga kick offs at 10 pm, so it ends short before midnight. ⚽😃 I peesume ir's due to hot weather dyringbthe say.

  • @nestorduque8690
    @nestorduque8690 3 місяці тому

    Nice video, thanks.

  • @Frisbieinstein
    @Frisbieinstein 2 місяці тому

    Istanbul is even later. Strangers may come to your door up to 2am. They sing loudly even later than that.
    Spanish produce is very good, but Japan's is even better.

  • @worldobserver3515
    @worldobserver3515 2 місяці тому

    If they eat dinner so late, what time does the workday begin?

  • @caballoloco100
    @caballoloco100 4 місяці тому +2

    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 ...
    🎉

  • @midei
    @midei 2 місяці тому +1

    It’s not true that “everybody’s always late to everything and it’s perfectly normal and socially accepted”.

  • @Insaniya.humanity
    @Insaniya.humanity 3 місяці тому +4

    Southern Spain is flooded with British people that actually cant speak Spanish because they don’t mix with Spaniards, so I’m very surprised you even noticed any of our cultural traits

    • @bwana-ma-coo-bah425
      @bwana-ma-coo-bah425 3 місяці тому +1

      are they moving there?

    • @Insaniya.humanity
      @Insaniya.humanity 3 місяці тому +6

      @@bwana-ma-coo-bah425 yes, by the thousands. Apparently they don’t like living in the UK

    • @bwana-ma-coo-bah425
      @bwana-ma-coo-bah425 3 місяці тому

      @@Insaniya.humanity well that means that your housing prices will increase. and they will bring their problems to your country, time to close the doors.

    • @MariaNI-yf1bz
      @MariaNI-yf1bz 4 дні тому

      ​@@Insaniya.humanityyes, they complain about foreigners in the UK and than move to Spain and start to complain about the locals in order to start their own (isolated) communities there😅

  • @EndorFine-h3r
    @EndorFine-h3r 2 місяці тому

    It is clear that there is a very different way of understanding everything and it has a lot to do with the Protestant tradition of obsession with money, which is not so deep in the Catholic world, and the inhospitable climate of northern Europe which does not exactly help socialising outside your own home. The importance of the family is inherent to the culture of the Mediterranean Greco-Roman world to which, evidently, northern Europe does not belong more than by contact.

  • @ricardo2573
    @ricardo2573 3 місяці тому

    Smart dress codes only in medium to small towns where the likelihood of come across acquaintances is high and traditions hold better.
    Interpretation in the grounds of a legal framework? Well it is their job and income that is at stake. The more you sue the more the gain.

  • @AS-by8ee
    @AS-by8ee 3 місяці тому

    I’ll never go to Spain again. The whole EFF off tourists thing has changed the way I view Spain.

  • @contrerassev
    @contrerassev Місяць тому

    No puedes tomar un café antes de la 9 am??quéeee?he trabajado siempre a la 6 am y te aseguro wue hay muchos lugares para tomar cafe y desayunar,si no tomas cafe sntes de las 9 am sera porwue es sales a esa hora a tu trabajo.

  • @susanaescriba977
    @susanaescriba977 2 місяці тому

    But have you already started working in a Spanish company?

  • @conchacasado4757
    @conchacasado4757 22 дні тому

    Porque no buscas bien. Yo desayunaba a las siete y media porque entraba a las ocho, en un bar de al lao del trabajo

  • @enriquejaviercastillomonta1783
    @enriquejaviercastillomonta1783 3 місяці тому

    ...be water Nicol ❤

  • @javiermartinez5542
    @javiermartinez5542 3 місяці тому +4

    Entre los países occidentales puede haber costumbres distintas, pero yo nunca he tenido choques culturales. No te estás mudando a Mongolia !!! !!! 😆😆😆

  • @mitchwilden4538
    @mitchwilden4538 3 місяці тому +1

    I hate to eat so late in Spain makes me sleep bad

    • @chrismcnulty7826
      @chrismcnulty7826 3 місяці тому

      Same here. I've tried the Spanish custom of having dinner after 8, but gone back to eating earlier. It's better for digestion.

    • @MariaNI-yf1bz
      @MariaNI-yf1bz 4 дні тому

      Non Mediterranean people should not do that. Your system is not programmed for this habit😅

  • @tedjimenez5954
    @tedjimenez5954 3 місяці тому +1

    Sounds like mexico!!!

  • @txapeletxean6116
    @txapeletxean6116 4 місяці тому +8

    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.

    • @sisisisi833
      @sisisisi833 3 місяці тому +5

      Por mi que se queden en su país. Los que viven aquí no se molestan en aprender nuestro idioma. Me gusta mi país, me gusta nuestras costumbres y me gusta lo que hacemos y lo que comemos. Es la mejor comida del mundo diría yo

    • @Appie-rd2bg
      @Appie-rd2bg 3 місяці тому +1

      O quizás será porque ustedes hacen todo menos eficiente y más flojo. Si miras a los países nativos Inglés(o cualquier país Europeo norte), sus economías son más productivos y competitivos que el suyo. Estoy de acuerdo que migrantes deben aprenderse el idioma del país en donde ellos decidieron a vivir. Pero en mi experiencia, los nativos de países españoles también son horrible con hablar otros idiomas(parecido a los de Estados Unidos y el Reino Unido)…el inglés incluido, mientras los países del Europeo norte (no nativos inglés) casi todos saben inglés al lado de su propio idioma…
      No soy de un país nativo Inglés. No quiero ofender a nadie, solo quiero mostrarse los hechos. Es fácil señalar a otros pero a veces es necesario pa’ mirar en un espejo.
      Ten un buen día compañeros.

    • @txapeletxean6116
      @txapeletxean6116 3 місяці тому

      @@Appie-rd2bg no, no es una cuestión de eficiencia. En España, mucha gente dedica tiempo a aprender inglés porque no lo sabe. En los países en los que se habla inglés, apenas hay gente que quiera aprender un segundo idioma, no va con su cultura. Y quien no quiere aprender un segundo idioma no invierte tiempo, y por tanto no es más eficiente, sino menos inquieto.
      Por cierto, tu español es horrible.

    • @pedrolardies9597
      @pedrolardies9597 3 місяці тому

      @@Appie-rd2bg Compulsory learning of English is a sign of cultural colonisation.

    • @sisisisi833
      @sisisisi833 2 місяці тому

      @@Appie-rd2bg. Yo no discuto si sabemos hablar otros idiomas o no. Porque se con seguridad que la calidad es muy baja en este país. Yo digo que los ciudadanos del REINO UNIDO que se "instalan" a vivir su vejez en España y hay MUCHÍSIMOS, no se molestan en aprender el idioma nativo. Y nosotros aún hablándolo bastante mal tenemos que hablar el suyo. ¿Entiendes la diferencia? Un saludo!

  • @dannyesse3043
    @dannyesse3043 4 місяці тому +3

    Don’t agree with the well dressed part. In Spain people dress pretty causal.

    • @themechanictangerine
      @themechanictangerine 3 місяці тому +1

      Yes, but they dress casual with style, unlike Scandinavia😂

    • @dannyesse3043
      @dannyesse3043 3 місяці тому

      @@themechanictangerine Well maybe, but Italians dress better.

    • @MariaNI-yf1bz
      @MariaNI-yf1bz 4 дні тому

      No, the well dressed part is correct. I love that this has no age limit in Spain.

  • @omegoa
    @omegoa 3 місяці тому

    See, the first 2 minutes convinced me that Spain is a no-fly zone for me. What the heck kind of schedule ... no thanks :)

  • @hertzvanrental2024
    @hertzvanrental2024 3 місяці тому

    Dors anyone is Spain actually do anything apart grom hang out? How do they get money 😂

  • @motormouthalmighty
    @motormouthalmighty 5 місяців тому +5

    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!

    • @loloflores123
      @loloflores123 4 місяці тому +3

      We use beta blockers too 😅

    • @clastos
      @clastos 3 місяці тому

      @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.

    • @motormouthalmighty
      @motormouthalmighty 3 місяці тому +4

      @@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!

    • @sisisisi833
      @sisisisi833 3 місяці тому +2

      ​. Me declaro tu fan desde ya 😂😂😂😂😂.

    • @motormouthalmighty
      @motormouthalmighty 3 місяці тому +2

      @@sisisisi833 Respuesta muy extraña, ¡pero me alegro de que hayas podido unirte a nosotros!