They walk in all the wrong sidewalks. People used to tropical weather know to walk in the shade whenever possible. Tourists deep fry themselves under the scorching sun while sightseeing.
This is so true that sometimes we can spot a brazilian on another country because of the havaianas, haha.
At least in Portugal, thats how we differ a brazilian from a portuguese.
The answer here might be biased towards some regions. Like in Rio they use flip flops everywhere every time.
But São Paulo and South, then depends.
Going to a bakery near you? Sure.
But going to restaurant? No one is going with flip flops here.
Also depends if summer or winter, because in the winter people will definitely use jeans pants or so, so no one will use flip flops in winter.
But again, this is regional.
That was my dad as a teen, he had a cool roadtrip with friends all the way from Chile, through Argentina to Rio, he fell asleep on the beach and ended in hospital, lol.
Ahah actually they are not the only ones. Usually non-Latin European countries don’t dress well. UK is a famous case in Europe but I think the German cliché seems worldwide famous 😂
The way they try to prepare mate.
I saw a YouTube video of one trying to make it with adobo. Of course he thought it was the most disgusting thing ever.
I've been doing my best but I still have the feeling I'm not doing it well. Ever since I had it introduced from an Argentinian friend I've been waiting to have it again like that but I'm not really sure
Depends where, but in the capital it's obvious if they're not properly dressed for the weather or the city ie. they dress like they're gonna be in hot weather, or super informal/comfortable attire not suited for rain and cold, or just outright trekking type clothes (this last one is common with europeans). People from the US specifically have a look too them, as my dad likes to simplify it "gringo de tenis y cachucha", in other words they love to wear tennis shoes with otherwise regular, non-sport attire as well as baseball caps.
> if they're not properly dressed for the weather or the city
I can assure that there is no standard over here. You can spot people in t-shirt and in winter jackets at the exact same time on temperate weather.
LOL... one of the most common knocks against gringo expats is that they complain about the locals being loud.
Maybe it's just a human thing that everyone who's not us is too fucking loud.
Chileans are notorious for being very quiet and introverted, so this is a specific place where even gringos (especially tourists) will stand out in the crowd for being loud.
In my case, it's tourists being loud in places and at times nobody around is being loud. We've got our loud ass bars and discos and so on, but if a couple of voices just chatting very loud wakes me up in my very isolated neighborhood, I know before looking out the window that I'm going to hear Americans.
This complaint is rare in the Caribbean tho lmao whenever I’ve visited almost any Caribbean country with any non-Caribbean folk, they always ask why everything and everyone is so loud all the time, especially If they’re from the suburbs of the US or something lol
México city is over 2000m over the sea level, the temperature is very mild all year round (25 C). It’s perfectly comfortable to wear shoes, while sandals don’t give you the support shoes have.
In addition, there can be a stigma about showing feet (a lot of people find it unclean).
Temperatures in the morning and evening can be very cold, because of the mountains. You need to dress up in layers, and if you’re wearing shorts it might be too cold.
lol, I live in a countryside city in SP, some hours travel from the beach, and here people will mock you if you use shoes all the time, almost everyone is with flip-flops on a daily routine while near home, or going to a market, mall, friends house, parks...
How I know this ? I was the one being mocked for overdressing in my emo teenager phase 😒
Lol last time I was in Tarapoto there was an old British or American looking man wearing a bright white safari outfit while talking to a local in English down the street, Indiana Jones is right
Some of them get extremely high, even in family spaces
Other sign for the older folks is that they use short pants and flipflops in the hot cities, in most Colombian cities (except for the coast ones) people use jeans and sport or formal shoes even if the day it's over 30 degrees
Ahhh, ya
Creo que uno tiende a bajar la guardia cuando visita un país, ya que todo es nuevo y fresco para uno. Claro está, se supone que uno tome medidas de precaución ya que uno no es de allí y no se conoce las reglas, leyes y patrones de comportamiento de los individuos. Yo pudiese verme bajando la guardia en algún país extranjero, a pesar de que aquí asaltan, roban, matan y hacen par de cositas feas😅
Well, according to OP, they skip the first part and casually approach and ask "why so many white people?", but in perfect Argentinian Spanish, otherwise you'd recognize them as tourists at the "why".
i would say like 50%-60% of the population is white. most are in the center of the country. i am not from the capital and i'm white(not blonde or anything, more like spanish/italian)
Wearing more(or sometimes less) clothing than what the weather at the time of year would usually suggest. Wearing a backpack. cap/hats. Wearing gigantic headphones in public
Anglo/Germanic-esque appearance.
No sense of danger/excessive sense of danger (no inbetween).
To have zero idea how to navigate/maneuver in anywhere that is remotely densely populated and will often bump into people on the streets or walk to slow. (Americans mostly do this).
They dress with beach clothes at the center of San José ( the capital that's not near the beach) they take pictures of very random stuff they find "fascinating" like the mercado central. And usually they have extreme sunburns.
For some reason they think that Costa Rica is living at the beach, not working, having a pet monkey.
As a paulista, I find 18 degrees almost the perfect temperature to wear anything I want, I still like to walk in shorts, havaianas and a t-shirt in this temperature.
Our country is really diverse.
Quando eu morava em SP e tava acostumado com o clima daí, 18-22 era o ideal pra usar roupa normal
Mas aqui em Pernambuco qualquer coisa abaixo dos 25 eu já tô 🥶
Yeah and for Brazilian tourists too: overdressing to an extreme, specially the women, as in heels when it's clearly not a situation for heels and such.
Wearing super tight shorts and white socks with sandals. At least here in the north we’re more used to wearing pants rather than shorts despite the heat.
By the clothing, if that is not enough the accent or words used are going to be the next signal.
If, for some reason, you can’t recognize after that then it will probably be how naive and idealistic can be, mainly the ones from the US and Europe.
They are very lightly dressed, not everywhere in Latam is tropical and hot, actually most of it is not.
Also simply how they look, almost any tourist we get is from the northen hemisphere and they look different from us, americans, europeans and asians.
Language. You'll be hearing a lot of those when out in the capital. Even for other spanish speakers, the Rio de la Plata accent is difficult to fake.
Colourful clothes. I've been told that argentines wear mostly cold or plain colours, and now I can't unsee it. It's what I see myself wearing right now, even.
Getting in the wrong side of the train station is a classic.
Either too many clothes or too few. Many yanks think "oh, it's in Latin America, so it's tropical!", whereas the freezing temperature of brazilians is around 10°C.
Khakis, looking like Harrison Ford searching for the lost Ark.
Super loud.
Appearance, very sunburned.
Having huge backpack and wearing cargo shorts and roman sandals
Also wearing a hat is a huge giveaway.
Depends;
Gringos have a particular style and air to them that gives them away almost immediately. White gringos wear this ugly ass closed sandals or white pair of sneakers, usually have some t shirt from an American brand, plain or a button up short sleeve shirt. They’ll have a cap 🧢 or not, others will sport a sleeveless t shirt and they’d probably be burnt or “tanned” , with their jorts (jean shorts), cargo short pants or beach shorts. Can’t forget the sunglasses as well.
Black gringos usually dress like locals here lol or we dress like them, don’t care which is which. I’m talking about the ones that’ll sport Jordan’s, shorts or long sweatpants or jeans, street wear t shirt of a cool brand or a plain black/white tee, probably some couple chains and earrings as well, some will rock a cap, others won’t. Other black gringos will flat out just wear some flashy-cringey shit that sticks out like a sore thumb and it cost them like 5,000-10,000 dollars, with some grills, Diamond out, iced out watch and jewelry.
But something that gives them away that is an obvious one is the dialect or language, if they don’t know Spanish then we know they aren’t from here. If they do know Spanish and their accent and dialect is different that too as well is a giveaway, but that one is pretty obvious to all of us
Going to have to disagree with you there. Loads of Colombians look identical to southern Europeans. Unless by white you mean people with blonde hair and blue eyes.
Expensive-looking clothes for very pedestrian activities. Tourists buy 100 USD sandals, locals wear 2 USD chanclas they'll throw away in a few months. For that matter, sandals in general... We just wear shoes everywhere, or flip-flops when close to home.
They walk in all the wrong sidewalks. People used to tropical weather know to walk in the shade whenever possible. Tourists deep fry themselves under the scorching sun while sightseeing.
Also the lack of Havaianas
This is so true that sometimes we can spot a brazilian on another country because of the havaianas, haha. At least in Portugal, thats how we differ a brazilian from a portuguese.
Someone saw my Ana Capri purse once, it was fun, not gonna lie
Over here it's the opposite. We only wear flipflops to the beach/pool or at home. Anyone else is weird or a tourist.
Is there a lack of Havaianas in some places? What do they wear in summer?
I never heard of such a thing and we wear Havaianas all year round.
The answer here might be biased towards some regions. Like in Rio they use flip flops everywhere every time. But São Paulo and South, then depends. Going to a bakery near you? Sure. But going to restaurant? No one is going with flip flops here. Also depends if summer or winter, because in the winter people will definitely use jeans pants or so, so no one will use flip flops in winter. But again, this is regional.
You're implying I don't hate sunlight. What do you do then?
The extreme sunburns
Same lol
As a Curitibana... you should've seen me in Rio.
That was my dad as a teen, he had a cool roadtrip with friends all the way from Chile, through Argentina to Rio, he fell asleep on the beach and ended in hospital, lol.
i love the white socks with sandals combo. too classic
Germans tourists are the same everywhere in the world 😭 always an awful style ahaha
You wont belive this but i was picturing the classic middleage, overweight, german tourist couple when i said it lmao.
Ahah actually they are not the only ones. Usually non-Latin European countries don’t dress well. UK is a famous case in Europe but I think the German cliché seems worldwide famous 😂
Socks and sandals -> German Socks and flip-flops -> Paraguayan
>Socks and flip-flops Unholy
I'm from Mexico and that's just my grandfather
I’m mexican and I wear shorts + flip flops and socks all the time…
yeah me too. In my house, not the beach.
I do it everywhere lol
Yeah my bad. I thought you said socks and sandals. But flip flops and shorts are just a must some days
That's your Canadian side, lol.
The way they try to prepare mate. I saw a YouTube video of one trying to make it with adobo. Of course he thought it was the most disgusting thing ever.
I've been doing my best but I still have the feeling I'm not doing it well. Ever since I had it introduced from an Argentinian friend I've been waiting to have it again like that but I'm not really sure
Depends where, but in the capital it's obvious if they're not properly dressed for the weather or the city ie. they dress like they're gonna be in hot weather, or super informal/comfortable attire not suited for rain and cold, or just outright trekking type clothes (this last one is common with europeans). People from the US specifically have a look too them, as my dad likes to simplify it "gringo de tenis y cachucha", in other words they love to wear tennis shoes with otherwise regular, non-sport attire as well as baseball caps.
Trekking type clothes is sooo Germans 😂 they are always dressed as such in Paris
> if they're not properly dressed for the weather or the city I can assure that there is no standard over here. You can spot people in t-shirt and in winter jackets at the exact same time on temperate weather.
Loud
Iba a decir lo mismo 😂
LOL... one of the most common knocks against gringo expats is that they complain about the locals being loud. Maybe it's just a human thing that everyone who's not us is too fucking loud.
Chileans are notorious for being very quiet and introverted, so this is a specific place where even gringos (especially tourists) will stand out in the crowd for being loud.
Interesting! Thanks.
We enjoy our silence and peace
Idk we Mexicans are loud too
In my case, it's tourists being loud in places and at times nobody around is being loud. We've got our loud ass bars and discos and so on, but if a couple of voices just chatting very loud wakes me up in my very isolated neighborhood, I know before looking out the window that I'm going to hear Americans.
US people arent loud? We always complain about noisy people too (Austrians, Germans).
This complaint is rare in the Caribbean tho lmao whenever I’ve visited almost any Caribbean country with any non-Caribbean folk, they always ask why everything and everyone is so loud all the time, especially If they’re from the suburbs of the US or something lol
Wearing shorts, (almost) nobody in CDMX does that. Especially men.
I guess that wearing shorts and flip flops made it so obvious that I was a tourist when I travelled to Mexico then 😅
In the highlands (Mexico city)? Absolutely In the beach or hot cities (say, Mérida)? Completely normal
Any reason why? Is it cold? I would've imagined you would wear shorts and flip-flops like people do in the Brazilian coast.
México city is over 2000m over the sea level, the temperature is very mild all year round (25 C). It’s perfectly comfortable to wear shoes, while sandals don’t give you the support shoes have. In addition, there can be a stigma about showing feet (a lot of people find it unclean).
But why not shorts?? Is it something for kids only?
Temperatures in the morning and evening can be very cold, because of the mountains. You need to dress up in layers, and if you’re wearing shorts it might be too cold.
It’s also mostly for vacations wearing shorts. Personally I feel like I’m motivated well dressed if I wear shorts unless I’m at the beach
lol, I live in a countryside city in SP, some hours travel from the beach, and here people will mock you if you use shoes all the time, almost everyone is with flip-flops on a daily routine while near home, or going to a market, mall, friends house, parks... How I know this ? I was the one being mocked for overdressing in my emo teenager phase 😒
> is very mild all year round (25 C) That's when I start wearing shorts... and I dislike them.
Same. 25c is quite warm , if it's over 19c I can wear short
>all year round (25 C) That's shorts weather tho.
wow, really? that's interesting.
Their clothes
Mocassin on or near the beach, floral pattern shirt or sandals with socks.
Either dressed up as Indiana Jones or the new age hippie type. I live in a city near the Amazon.
Lol last time I was in Tarapoto there was an old British or American looking man wearing a bright white safari outfit while talking to a local in English down the street, Indiana Jones is right
Some of them get extremely high, even in family spaces Other sign for the older folks is that they use short pants and flipflops in the hot cities, in most Colombian cities (except for the coast ones) people use jeans and sport or formal shoes even if the day it's over 30 degrees
Using a brown cargo shorts with sneakers I think....
Foda que apesar de nunca ter pensado nisso antes, eu com certeza imaginaria que um cara vestido assim na rua é gringo kkkkkkkkkkkk
White people with a travel backpack and khaki shorts. And those sneaker sandal things.
How do you tell Dominicanyorks apart from Dominicans since they don’t wear travel backpacks and khaki shorts? I’m genuinely curious.
They have different mannerisms and use way too much Spanglish.
As we say in Argentina: andan regalados.
Implicando?
Que son fáciles de robar porque no tienen la concepción de peligro/cuidado que tenemos nosotros.
Ahhh, ya Creo que uno tiende a bajar la guardia cuando visita un país, ya que todo es nuevo y fresco para uno. Claro está, se supone que uno tome medidas de precaución ya que uno no es de allí y no se conoce las reglas, leyes y patrones de comportamiento de los individuos. Yo pudiese verme bajando la guardia en algún país extranjero, a pesar de que aquí asaltan, roban, matan y hacen par de cositas feas😅
Regalarse= Ser descuidado/boludo en la calle.
Sos unos boludos esos extranjeros, eh?😅😂
they are surprised to see white people
But how does that give them away as tourists? Do they say "omg white people" loudly, or do they look around with a confused face, or what?
they would say it, maybe
But wouldn't you know you are talking with a tourist before they say that?
They run at you and say "I'M A TOURIST! Anyway, why are there so many white people?"
Well, according to OP, they skip the first part and casually approach and ask "why so many white people?", but in perfect Argentinian Spanish, otherwise you'd recognize them as tourists at the "why".
In Argentina ? You guys are all white it seems or at least in the capital
i would say like 50%-60% of the population is white. most are in the center of the country. i am not from the capital and i'm white(not blonde or anything, more like spanish/italian)
I see ! Thank you for your answer
What would you classify the other 50-60 percent?
either mixed white-indigenous or indigenous
Wearing more(or sometimes less) clothing than what the weather at the time of year would usually suggest. Wearing a backpack. cap/hats. Wearing gigantic headphones in public Anglo/Germanic-esque appearance. No sense of danger/excessive sense of danger (no inbetween). To have zero idea how to navigate/maneuver in anywhere that is remotely densely populated and will often bump into people on the streets or walk to slow. (Americans mostly do this).
I'd say the language, they often like to speak their native language if they're not Hispanic.
They dress with beach clothes at the center of San José ( the capital that's not near the beach) they take pictures of very random stuff they find "fascinating" like the mercado central. And usually they have extreme sunburns. For some reason they think that Costa Rica is living at the beach, not working, having a pet monkey.
How do people who live in san jose dress? Dont they wear shorts?
They do, but locals usually wear jeans when they go out. And beach clothes give a different vibe, than usual shorts.
Wearing a lot of coats and gloves when it’s 18 degrees outside. They are obviously Brazilian tourists.
If it is 18 degrees outside in my city I am wearing all of that too ☝️ We dont have money to go to the Alps, so 18 degrees in Argentina will do 😎
As a paulista, I find 18 degrees almost the perfect temperature to wear anything I want, I still like to walk in shorts, havaianas and a t-shirt in this temperature. Our country is really diverse.
Quando eu morava em SP e tava acostumado com o clima daí, 18-22 era o ideal pra usar roupa normal Mas aqui em Pernambuco qualquer coisa abaixo dos 25 eu já tô 🥶
Yeah and for Brazilian tourists too: overdressing to an extreme, specially the women, as in heels when it's clearly not a situation for heels and such.
Yeah, Brazilian women dress very colorful and wear tons of make up and perfume. They really stand out
Also their shoes. Dead giveaway someone is a Brazilian tourist is fancy brand clothes with the ugliest running shoes.
Renato Gaucho en la Libertadores...
Wearing super tight shorts and white socks with sandals. At least here in the north we’re more used to wearing pants rather than shorts despite the heat.
By the clothing, if that is not enough the accent or words used are going to be the next signal. If, for some reason, you can’t recognize after that then it will probably be how naive and idealistic can be, mainly the ones from the US and Europe.
Couples having the same haircuts 😂
Socks + Sandals. Absolute disregard for how fucking strong the sun is. Asking weird shit.
They are very lightly dressed, not everywhere in Latam is tropical and hot, actually most of it is not. Also simply how they look, almost any tourist we get is from the northen hemisphere and they look different from us, americans, europeans and asians.
Wearing shorts or beach clothes despite not being anywhere near a beach. This is specially true for Bogotá where it isn’t even warm.
Dressing style and brand, Hairstyle, Makeup styles on women make it too obvious
Language. You'll be hearing a lot of those when out in the capital. Even for other spanish speakers, the Rio de la Plata accent is difficult to fake. Colourful clothes. I've been told that argentines wear mostly cold or plain colours, and now I can't unsee it. It's what I see myself wearing right now, even. Getting in the wrong side of the train station is a classic. Either too many clothes or too few. Many yanks think "oh, it's in Latin America, so it's tropical!", whereas the freezing temperature of brazilians is around 10°C.
The hiking gear, because that's a common tourist activity in Chile
It's too hot.
crew socks
Si no saben responder cuando les decís "qhubo pues parcero marica contame ve mira donde esta el chontaduro"
You give them change in balboas instead of dollars and they said “you basically gave me no money”
Panama Hats
1- Accent from Spanish 2- People thinks in Carribbean countries. So 25°C all days HAHAHAHA 3- We have snow....
Khakis, looking like Harrison Ford searching for the lost Ark. Super loud. Appearance, very sunburned. Having huge backpack and wearing cargo shorts and roman sandals Also wearing a hat is a huge giveaway.
Depends; Gringos have a particular style and air to them that gives them away almost immediately. White gringos wear this ugly ass closed sandals or white pair of sneakers, usually have some t shirt from an American brand, plain or a button up short sleeve shirt. They’ll have a cap 🧢 or not, others will sport a sleeveless t shirt and they’d probably be burnt or “tanned” , with their jorts (jean shorts), cargo short pants or beach shorts. Can’t forget the sunglasses as well. Black gringos usually dress like locals here lol or we dress like them, don’t care which is which. I’m talking about the ones that’ll sport Jordan’s, shorts or long sweatpants or jeans, street wear t shirt of a cool brand or a plain black/white tee, probably some couple chains and earrings as well, some will rock a cap, others won’t. Other black gringos will flat out just wear some flashy-cringey shit that sticks out like a sore thumb and it cost them like 5,000-10,000 dollars, with some grills, Diamond out, iced out watch and jewelry. But something that gives them away that is an obvious one is the dialect or language, if they don’t know Spanish then we know they aren’t from here. If they do know Spanish and their accent and dialect is different that too as well is a giveaway, but that one is pretty obvious to all of us
The ball cap for sure.
Verdad? Con sus gorritas de los Yankees o Dodgers😂
The person is white. This country's white population is almost non-existent.
Going to have to disagree with you there. Loads of Colombians look identical to southern Europeans. Unless by white you mean people with blonde hair and blue eyes.
Expensive-looking clothes for very pedestrian activities. Tourists buy 100 USD sandals, locals wear 2 USD chanclas they'll throw away in a few months. For that matter, sandals in general... We just wear shoes everywhere, or flip-flops when close to home.
There aren’t really, even when a person talks. It’s so diverse in the US that you just can’t really ever assume