![]() ![]() Weirdest Things in Poland for a Foreigner Visiting new countries taught me great things about the cultures of people from other parts of the world. ![]() People from different countries were making their own cultural mistakes as well. Those situations happened a lot to me, but I realized that I was not the only one. Or arriving two hours late to any party I was invited to. ![]() So it was common for me to make ‘mistakes’ in my daily life like kissing on the cheek women I just met, which is something completely normal in Mexico. I was completely clueless about other cultures and foreign traditions. Traveling abroad is something that really opens your mind, and you start realizing that what you consider to be ‘normal’ in your hometown, might be extremely weird for the rest of the world.įor example, the first time I went abroad was in 2012, when I studied in Paris. Travelling Abroad Changes Your Perspective 99.99% of the time when we eat, there will always be tortillas on the table.Random people sell CD’s, candies, ice-cream, phone chargers, etc.We can fit 10 people in a Volkswagen Beetle.You can hang bags of water from the ceiling to make flies go away.Adding lemon and spicy sauce to most of our food, candies, fruit, etc.For any foreigner, they look and taste the same We have different names for dishes that have exactly the same ingredients, but are prepared in a different way: quesadilla, flauta, chalupa, enchiladas, etc.Some other things that I realised that are normal only to Mexicans are: Typical ‘Mordida’ during birthdays in Mexico – Pic by monchor1a in Flickrīefore that birthday party, I was convinced that this celebration was common around the world, but after seeing the face of the German student I realized that this was not the case. We explained to him that what he had just witnessed was a Mexican tradition called ‘ Mordida‘, and we do it when someone is celebrating their birthday. The foreigner looked really confused and he was wondering what was wrong with us. The rest of my cousins started gathering around the birthday boy, and suddenly we all pushed his head really hard and stuck his face into the cake. The German guy didn’t know what was happening, so he just waited patiently. … All of my family started to sing ‘ Mordida, Mordida, Mordida…‘ (in English: bite, bite, bite). When the song was over, my cousin blew the candles, and then something happened that the foreigner couldn’t believe it… In one of those birthday parties we invited one of those foreigners to join us, he was from Germany.Īt the party we had a cake with candles, and we started signing ‘Las Mañanitas’ (Mexican version of Happy Birthday song). Sometimes they invited them over to have dinner, to birthday parties, or to play football with us. Back when I was living in Mexico City, some of my cousins had in their school several foreign students. ![]()
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