Laska, do you like laying in the sun?
Is this your favorite thing to do in the world?
Just lay in the sun and get belly rubs.
[Laughter]
Her tongue. Look at that husky smile! Her tongue just flopped out of her mouth.
Look at this!
[Laughter]
Good morning Tangerineys! So in today's video we are fulfilling a
request that you guys had. You picked this topic, and it is customs in Mexico
that we love! And sort of in contrast, it's like things about the U.S. customs
or parts of the U.S. culture that we don't like. So if you're new to our
channel, we've been traveling throughout Mexico for about four and a
half months. We've been to 15 different cities, and five different Mexican states.
I am Jordan, and I'm Maddie, and we are getting started. So right now we're at
one of our favorite breakfast spots in all of Guadalajara.
We're a Chai, and this reminds us of one thing on this list. And that is that
restaurants don't rush you out after you're done eating. In the US, as soon as
you finish ordering your last thing they're bringing you the bill. Without even asking. Yeah.
Without asking. You feel like they're kind of forcing you to hurry up and get
the heck out of there. But here, you do typically have to ask for the bill and
then they'll bring it out to you. But we think it's really nice that you can just
enjoy your time at the restaurant. Relax, relax. Eat at your own pace. Just spend as much time here as you want.
The check, please. Thank you.
A large mango please with Tajin and lime.
Tajin? Tajin. Yes, please.
Salt? No, but lime.
Thank you. Thank you. Have a good day!
All right, so we just bought some fresh mango, fresh-cut mango, and this is a
double whammy. Two things about Mexico that we really love with this one. One is
that, in Mexico, people pretty much put lime, hot sauce, and chili salt on
everything! And it's amazing! It's, everything is way better. Something
that's good becomes awesome with this stuff. And it's literally on everything!
Even putting hot sauce on your popcorn!
What are you putting on there? Hot sauce. Lots and lots of hot sauce.
Seriously, you guys. It sounds weird, we thought it was weird on some stuff, and
then tried it, and it's amazing. And then the other part about this which is
something that we love, is that you can get so much stuff on the streets all the
time. From fresh fruit to handmade artesanias, candy, all this kind of
stuff. And that's not very common in the U.S. Vendors, in general, on the street.
And we love that because you don't have to go very far to find a good snack or
something. Actually we lied. This encompasses three things that we really
love about the culture of Mexico, and that is how freakin fresh everything is.
You guys, he squeezed all the lime juice right on top of this. He cut the mango
right in front of us. And that's how everything is, fresh squeezed everything
from juice, they make it to order for you. Ah! It's just, oh my gosh, I'm geeking out
about it right now. It's so great. If you've been watching our videos, you may
remember that I found a 500 peso bill, and it was just blowing in the wind. Well
today, we were at breakfast, I went to the bathroom and there on the
ground lies 2,000 pesos. This guy! Luckiest person ever! But, I mean, I picked it up and I looked around no one
was looking at it. Let me know what you would do in this situation. I ended up
giving it to some employees. Hope they do the right thing with it. Another part
about Mexican culture that we really love is how crafty people are, and how
resourceful. So instead of just immediately throwing something away
because it's broken, or it doesn't suit the need anymore, instead people are more
likely that we've noticed, to fix it, rig it, or reuse it in some way, so they
don't have to buy something else. And people will actually drive around in a
truck buying your broken stuff. To reuse it, sell it, or scrap it.
Oh my gosh you guys, we have not seen one of those trucks in a few weeks, and right
after we mentioned this, freaking guy buying microwaves and refrigerators drives by! [Laughter]
Oh my gosh! So one thing we really love about Mexico
is people work for their money. You rarely see people begging on the streets.
They always have something to sell, or some performance to do. Like something
that we think is really awesome, a lot of times if you're stopped at a stoplight
there will be people in front of you, on the street, doing some type of
performance like backflips or cheerleading. Like throwing a girl up and
catching her. We love that they work so hard for their money.
Cinco pesos los tamales! (Tamales 5 pesos)
Another aspect of the social culture and society in Mexico that we absolutely love, is that people are not glued to
their phones 24/7. So if you're going out to eat with someone, they're not on their
phone texting the entire time, or checking Instagram, or Facebook, or
whatever else. And that also kind of transfers over to the driving as well. We
feel like people are much more aware of pedestrians, and bikes, and other cars. And
yes there still oare car accidents here, but I think it's far less because people
aren't constantly trying to do something on their phone while driving. To be
honest, we're still guilty of using our phones while we're at at a restaurant,
but I do think we're getting better at it. A little bit, yeah. It takes a while. So in the US people have
this mentality, if they don't like something, we should make a law against
it! It should be illegal! When that whole mentality permeates throughout society,
you end up with this society where everything's illegal and you can't do
anything. Not to mention, with that mentality, you also have people going
like, "Oh my gosh, I can't believe someone did that" or "I can't believe this
happened, we should sue them!" That everyone's just afraid of everything and
everyone. I feel like you're trapped in this box, like if you do anything out of
the normal, or against a law, or something you're gonna get sued. Here in Mexico
it's more so like, go with the flow. Seems like people have much more of a tolerant
attitude, like maybe it's annoying that someone's making noise
and going around the streets asking about your old microwaves, but you're just
sort of like, "You know, that's just how it is." and so you kind of take it with a
good attitude, and like, yep that's just how society is, so might as well deal with it. So some people might
disagree with this one, but in our experience, in all the like what? Dozen
times that we've been pulled over in all of our driving throughout Mexico, is
that police are a lot different here in Mexico than they are in the US. And we
mean that in a good way. Many of the times that we've run into police in the
U.S. they have this domineering, aggressive, "I have to be the boss"
mentality. And maybe that's necessary to control people in the US, because it's
just a different society? I'm not gonna get into all that, but what we can say is
the police here seem to be much more calm, polite, mellow. Instead of feeling like you're
being bullied around, it's sort of like "Hey how can I help you? Just trying to
make sure that everything's okay with this that or whatever." And so with us
it's like, "Can I please see your temporary import permit, can I see your
license?" And of course we don't have a plate on the front of the car because
it's not required in Arizona, so they're like "Where's your front plate?" We tell
them, and then they send us on our merry way. In the US, people are always chasing
their next promotion, their next paycheck. Everyone lives to work. Here in Mexico,
it's pretty much the opposite of that. It's kind of cool people work because
it's a necessity, then they spend most of their time enjoying themselves. Along those
same lines, people are pretty relaxed, and they're not in a hurry, which can
sometimes be a pain in the butt when you're trying to get things done. But,
more often than not, we really enjoy that. But if you have that "Go with the flow" mentality that so many people have here,
you get a little crafty, maybe you have to do some of your work at a cafe or
something if the internet goes out. Like what happened with us. But yeah, you just gotta roll with
it. And you might find this one very familiar because we listed this on
things that we don't really understand about Mexican culture, or at least just
that we're not used to it.
But we really like this actually, in this country,
and that is that people are much more affectionate with hugs, and kissing, and
holding hands, and sitting close to each other. That's really not the culture in
the US, which I think leads to some negative things in society, because
kissing and hugging releases a chemical called oxytocin and that makes people
more happy, and more loving, and more willing to do kind things for each other.
So the fact that that is very present in this society in Mexico means, that as a
whole, people are a whole lot more loving, and happy, and joyful, and enjoy each
other more. And this is backed by our extensive research. Extensive research, yes.
Third party studies, double blind. Scientific, mathematical, physiological.
Laska! [Laughter] Hi! Hi! Awe, look at here ears, they're so far back!
Did you miss us?
You guys, have you ever seen this? When you go muah muah, make a kissy sound, she actually kisses
you. So we are curious to know what you guys love about the culture in Mexico?
If you have any favorites that we didn't mention, share those down below in the
comments. We would love to know what you think is so great about this country, and
we definitely had so many more things that we could have put on this list. It's
very long, but, we wanted to keep this short and sweet for you guys. Yeah we
could definitely do a part two. As we were making this video we were adding to
the list. Yeah. [Laughter]
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