Hey everybody, so as you know, we are working on the scripts for the next few country episodes
Which means this is gonna have to be a filler week. Today's episode is gonna be one that was requested the countries of South America
Explained okay
we're not gonna talk about political issues in this episode because although government does play kind of like a big role in their portrayal to
The world stage governments tend to fluctuate and they don't necessarily stand for all the stuff
You need to know about a country and as usual when I make videos like this
I like to have natives in the video with me to help out
So without further ado you remember them the two people from the Colombia and Ecuador episode Cindy and Diego
Are you guys ready to make your country's proud are you are you ready to critique the other countries and possibly get criticized?
First country I'm Tina now a lot of Latin American countries have their opinions on Argentina
I heard a joke from an Argentinean wines
They said all the Latin American countries hate Argentina because Argentinians think they're better than everybody but then Argentina
Responds by saying well, we are so what's your point? No, but in all seriousness
Argentinians are really cool. Nice. Sweet people just they're kind of uh,
They're very proud of their country Argentinians tend to be way more
Connected to their European roots as opposed to the other countries over half. The population is either Italian or has roots from Italy
You're also more likely to see blond-haired blue-eyed people
Of course, they are known for their passionate tango steps mate' and yeah, really cool people just be careful about talking about this
All right, Cindy Diego. What are you gonna say about Argentina? They have the best barbecue like ever
The CD is beautiful. Thank you CDs is just amazing
Okay, so do can you do an Argentinian accent? I'll try. Hey guys. Don't judge me, please. I'll try my best
Chanakya, I think I said let him Dina
Yeah
Surely should be that I got Sheena. There's a shit sounds Oh Livia now, this is a unique one
I've actually been here Bolivia is kind of known for being like the indigenous one
They have the highest percentage of their population being Amerindian in descent mostly being I'm Mata or Quechua
They're kind of like the mysterious
Mountain that dressed differently at family reunions many of the women still wear the traditional dresses and the bowler hats and
Wrestle seriously, you gotta see truly to wrestling if you ever go to La Paz. It's like the coolest thing ever
La Paz is disputed ly the highest capital city in the world
If you go there you're gonna like run out of breath because the altitude is so high. Keep in mind though
Bolivia also has parts of the Amazon rainforest
And they also have a desert in the Atacama
If you go to the rainforest though, you can pass through the youngest road the world's most dangerous road
Sometimes it's only 3 meters wide you could die. So fun. They're kind of known for having a government
That's like really kind of anti outside influence, you know, all the McDonald's were banned there
Although they do have KFC and subway and Starbucks
Oh and because it is the lowest GDP per capita country in all of South America. The exchange rate is
Amazing not even joking. You can buy like a whole meal for 80 cents
I bought an entire like army sack of souvenirs for like 20 people. I ended up spending only like $80
Anyway, Bolivia cool place. Check it out guys. What do you think about Bolivia?
Yeah
Believe people have made their pretty cooler so down to earth brah. See you
I feel like I don't even really have to say too much about this but you guys all know Brazil. It's the big guy
It's the largest country the largest population the largest economy in all of South America South America could not function without Brazil now
there's really no one way to summarize all of Brazil because all the regions and states are so completely different so many different types of
People but overall it's kind of like the dad of South America like it plays such a key thicker role and it speaks Portuguese
Brazilian junk people Nadia says Spanish is like a choppier version of Portuguese. But without the ship ship and Oh,
Sounds country super diverse. You have white black Asian
they have the highest Japanese population outside of Japan and it's interesting though because it doesn't matter who you are like at the core of
Their hearts they're Brazilian first
I mean Brazilians they know how to get down to it and work really hard if they have to but I mean when you're surrounded
By so much natural beauty. It's really hard not to relinquish the Samba from your soul
That's kind of Brazil, you know, Brazil what comes to mind?
Other people they're super cool like you just want to party with him
What are you how much Portuguese can you guys understand when they speak it?
I mean, I would say I will get like 20% 30% 20 30 40, maybe even 40
It's Spanish with an accent. Yeah. It depends analyst of the pens the region goes fertile. Is that happen heavier accents
how Paulo not so much
I gotta look this up Chile. This one's interesting because geographically speaking they are pretty isolated from the rest of the continent
It's like the only country in the world where you cannot do a horizontal landscape layout of the nation's image
Chileans are kind of like the bougie stoic Ralph Waldo Emerson
Writers who drink wine they have like the best wine in the entire continent
It's been known that they are probably the fastest talkers in all of South America and they have a weird accent
They have a ton of weird words. Some of you guys have said that you can understand Portuguese better than you can understand Chileans
That's how thick their accent is and it's interesting because they're kind of like the only country that really has to deal with intense
Earthquakes they are right on the Pacific Rim and they get a lot of penguins but overall
Yeah, it's like they're kind of like the slightly rich uncle with a pipe in his hand
But you just can't understand what he's saying. Chewy what comes to mind for Lowell Lewis
And they're famous for their festival that they have a venue than mine, yeah
Can you do a Chilean accent palatable?
Sorry guys, that's that sounds so stereotypical. My bad is there such a thing as poorly are in Chile
I don't know like to make a boyfriend or girlfriend like a verb
And now
Diego's time to shine Cindy you're gonna have to sit this one out for a little bit
All right, South America was a family. How would Colombia fit into it?
They said we're the troublemakers, but Lenny cleared party-wise. Yes. We are the troublemakers party-wise party
Yeah, first of all, we're a country that you know
We don't give up like against or like with adversity like facing adversity. You got a lot of yeah
We've gone through a lot. It's interesting. You guys are kind of like the twin of Venezuela, right? You're like very similar, right? Yeah
It's funny. Cuz we like we have this like love and hate relationship. Yeah in the 80s and 90s
Colombians were going to Venezuela. Yeah, they were running away now
It's the opposite Venezuelans are coming into Coulomb. You know, you're right
There is like a unity between you guys no matter what happens exactly
You're always gonna be there for each other in Colombia has taken the most
Venezuelans out of any other country in the world young persons that you know, it surpassed like y'all the million
There's a lot of great food great music
Beautiful girls beautiful women and by the way, guys, we have the original rapist
Venezuelans are gonna argue about yeah so many musicians and artists, right? Yeah
For example, Jay bother you he's been killing it off
You know Shakira horn is everybody knows Shakira and Elise goes on and on
I don't know if it's weird to you guys were like we love to do like cheese queso Quahog is a campesino like into hot
Chocolate and it melts. It's the best thing ever. Alright. Well Cindy, what is it Ecuadorians perspective on Colombian?
Yeah, the chocolate actually was pretty good. I can't I can say that I really liked it and they're pretty cool people. I mean
They're pretty awesome and it's interesting to note that also these countries as well as Venezuela and Panama weren't one country at one point
Ron Colombia
so you're gonna see a lot of
Similarities and you know cultural traits that kind of tie in with each other within all four of those
Countries may be less Panama though because they're kind of a little separated Colombia Venezuela Ecuador. I call it the echo of a
Alliance and now Ecuador, which means Diego you gotta get out of here
Alright Cindy if the South America was like a family how would the Ecuador play into the mix? I don't know
I'm a quitter is very chill. We're very nerdy
We do love education and like all our schools are bilingual like everything is focused in education
We are a very friendly country. We don't like to fight very agricultural kind of like the
Sidekick best friend. I will say totally that. Yes, the second language was official
Um the cat to our language was in 2010. They made it a matter of fishel country
but yeah, now a lot of schools are actually teaching Quechua and the
Darwin Center is actually in the Galapagos. So it's a lot of research. She's a lot of you know a lot of science you see
Okay, sir. Cuenca is a very
Colonial place. It has become like the number one retirement place in South America
Well, uh Diego from a Colombian perspective. What do you guys think of Ecuadorian Chile? You know, we've never had a problem with them
No, they're kind of like the nerdy brother, you know who like never messes, you know you all right guys
Uh, what do you think about the Guyana as in Guiana and CERN em?
Basically these three are like the quiet kids down the hall at school that you didn't even know went to your school and like you
Meet them for the first time at graduation now for a Guyana Suriname and French Guiana
I'm just gonna kind of do them all at once cuz these three just kind of generally go together
Diana speaks English sir. Damn speaks Dutch
Although English is very prevalent there as well in French speaking French Guiana is an overseas region of France
Which is why some people kind of use it as like a backdoor entrance into the EU otherwise, yeah
Guyana and Suriname are also very similar. They're the only two countries in South America that drive on the left side of the road
They both have huge Indian
Populations people that are descended from the indentured servants that were brought over during colonial times
This in turn makes them some of the countries with the highest Hindu populations per capita
You can see Hindu shrines and Hindu temples all over basically in a nutshell
it's kind of like a place where a ton of different people from all over the world were dumped into one spot and had to
Kind of figure out what to do these three areas generally identify as Caribbean in their culture and identity rather than a South American
I talk to my French friend William who was born here Tom Donohue potential in Oakland is a YouTube Belle doc seven
Yeah, we're buddies. He was actually supposed to be in my France episode but you know life stuff happened and he couldn't make it
Oh, yeah, we still keep in contact
anyway
Doc seven wanted me to tell you French Guiana was started out as a prison colony where some of the worst criminals in France were
Sent similar to what the British did to Australia it's super diverse
They have whites blacks Creoles native Indian tribes surprisingly a lot of Hmong people that were brought over after allow had a big war
They're famous for their Space Center the shootable tam
He actually made quite a few videos explaining about this place most of his videos in French
But some of them do have English subtitles, though
So if you don't understand French just turn on the subtitles Paraguay Paraguay is kind of like the middle black sheep
Daughter that doesn't get a lot of attention putter body has two official languages Spanish and the indigenous guaraní language
and it's interesting because more people actually
Understand what I need then Spanish here
If you go outside of the cities into like rural areas
You might even have trouble communicating because the people just don't speak Spanish culturally
They are kind of like more rural and rustic you're known for being good horse riders. They love drinking today
They love playing that bouncy guy Lopez and Wadena is country music and finally the women are famous for doing the danza de la botella
Or the bottle dance, it looks really cool
Like they balanced bottles or jars on their head and sometimes they stack them up like ten I pretty cool very underrated
I say go visit. Alright guys. So what comes to mind when you think of park ride if I'm not mistaken?
They're pretty good like Lorde playing harp harps. Yeah
What kind of comes to mind when you like me or like see Park white people on TV or what do you think
Peru Peru is kind of like the big brother who took a risk played his cards right in business and marketing and
Exploited the crap out of all his tourism spots and made a lot of money it worked
He's kind of like a big-shot now
Keep in mind Peru is also one of the indigenous strong nations a significant portion of their population
Is Amerindian in descent largest one being Quechua? They are known for having really good food. Everybody knows ceviche. Hi guys, Peru
What comes to mind? Where'd you go?
Like we're durian in Peruvian food is very very similar even like the Papas. So they have this really happy. It is very similar
Okay Diego introduced me to this wonderful amazing thing from Peru. What is it guys? Please? Don't hate me
Okay, but a hat - I love it
Laura is like the Jerry Springer of Peru people go on this show and they go crazy and they yell at each other and they
accuse who've
Cheating who and then some of them get a prize and apparently this lady got a hot dog stand as a prize when she was
Cheated on I don't get it, but I love it. I love it. I love it so much
Oh, my the joke is what agua is like Argentina's Canada?
most South Americans say that they can't distinguish the difference between
Argentinians and oregon's but Argentinians and water gwin's can totally tell the difference and they swear by it
They have like generally the same accent in the same general kind of like Eurocentric type of demographic
I mean order boy doesn't really have a native indigenous population the ones that were there were kind of either
Moved or displaced or killed off. So now it's mostly just Spanish and Italian out of all the countries in Latin America
They have the lowest percentage of church attendance and highest unaffiliated population at somewhere around 17%
Landscape wise geography. Adrian says it might be boring. We don't have mountains deserts jungles or snow
We are just a flat plain with lots of happy cows and sheep that eat as much grass as they can
Now, of course, you cannot talk about water by without mentioning soccer football
Now here's the thing like all Latin American countries
Pretty much love soccer football but wonder why it's like it's impressive how well they've done for such a small country. Nonetheless
They have won two World Cups and 15. Copa America wins
They beat Argentina a country that's like 15 times their population
So they take this sport really seriously order by what do you guys think what comes to mind?
I mean, they're cool. I mean
They have like a very famous label so like like yeah who's everybody that goes sergeant Gina they always want to take like there
Yeah, right. Yeah. Yeah, I've heard that and finally Venezuela
Hey guys
So just a heads up while we were filming this video all those crazy things that were happening in Venezuela literally just occurred
So we're gonna do a little video explaining about all that stuff later. But until then let's get back to the main video
Jacques Maria Fernanda says if Venezuela was a student
She would be like a straight-a student that got addicted to Adderall and is in and out of rehab
Okay. Okay jokes aside. Venezuela is actually very unique just like their neighbors
They have almost every single landscape. You can imagine they have deserts they have beaches they have jungles
They have snow-capped mountains now. I know we're not gonna talk too much about politics, but I think it's very interesting to note relationship
They have with Bolivia their governments kind of have similar ideologies with like minimizing outside influence
There's like a unique Bolivia Venezuela Cuba alliance. There's like all these little hidden gems in Venezuela. You know, Angel Falls is here
It's the thing that inspired the movie up
They have like a river slash lake where it has like perpetual lightning all year round
And yeah, Venezuela's though. They are super proud of their country and Venezuelans do have a lot of European backgrounds
It's been said that Venezuelans have like the cleanest Spanish. It's like very pure and untainted. I don't know. That's what I was told
they're very similar to Colombians very
Very outgoing and party people if they want to be apart from all the political stuff
we all know it but when you just meet a
Venezuelan, what do you think the brothers the brothers the twins?
By the way, yeah, they do have a little bit of an accent. Yeah, but can you do the accent?
Well, I think try come on. What eco?
Okay
All right, and that was it thank you guys for being in this video yes for sure -
Any last words you guys want to just say to the whole JA Grinnell community, you know, even though you know
We have a lot of differences, you know, we share a lot of similarities as well and you will find like really good people
Really good food, like blend escapes are some of the best ones you can ever find
Opportunity to travel it's just the nature is like the colors are so vibrant
I feel like the Andes the minerals that we have is everything is just soar again ik and anything is like process
maybe that's the reason why the food is also so good you want to
Fiber organic. Everything is organic
Every country has its beauty and you should visit them all. Yes, specifically which one should they visit?
Well, thank you so much that's it hope you guys have a good one