Coming from a country where being politically correct is almost a law, it´s very interesting being a place where that term doesn´t exist at all. Argentina has no problem calling an overweight person ¨fat¨when they walk by, or ¨hola gordita.¨ But the most foreign part about it is that the victims of this slander don´t really take offense to it. In contrast to the United States, if you tell a random girl walking down the street that she is fat, she´ll either hit you, or skip dinner for a week. It´s quite a different way of speaking here, both in terms of language and word choice.


The better my spanish gets, the more I understand the culture and the distinct differences in comparison to other countries. Argentineans are also very proud people who love to joke about thier pride and arrogance, from what I have witnessed and from what I´ve been told. The owner of my house says that ¨joking around¨is the main language spoken here, whether the terms are socially acceptable or not.

All this was accessible from the http://www.easygolanguages.com/study-abroad/Spanish/Argentina/"> German Language Program