Chilean Culture

All the countries have their own culture that define them. An Chile, were I live have it too. If I have to define Chilean people I can say that we are really affective and workaholic, but we like and we need to have fun.

Going out is one of the most common hobbies here in Chile. Unlike Europe were they have parties until 10pm, in Chile most of the “carretes”, the Chilean word for going out, ends at dawn. When we want to have fun we have a lot of different things to do during the day and also during the entire night.

For an example we have “fantasilandia” it is a funfair were you can spend the entire day with your friends, eat a lot of junk food or just hang out.
For the night is really common to go to bars or to discoteque. Almost all discoteques open at 1:00am in the morning, so you really need to wait until that time if you want to dance. You can also dance in bars but is not really fun because not all of the people are dancing so you may feel embarrass. If discoteques and bars open so late is obvious that they end late too. If you ask me this is the best part of the “carrete”. You are really hungry and tired because you have been awake more than 20 hours. So after we leave the disco or the bar we always go to eat something and to talk about the night. The most common part for eating at 6:00am is Burger King or Mc Donalds. During this part of the night is when you laugh the most because we start tp talk and discuss all the things that had happend during the night.

After all of that you only want to get home and sleep until the next day.