Cultural clashes between countries often generate a multitude of anecdotes. Thanks to social networks we discover many of them. It is the case of Danielle Grobman, an American who lives in Spain and who shares what surprises her most about our country through TikTok.
In one of his last videos, he was walking through Valencia. So far everything is normal. What surprised him is that, for it being Christmas, there was a detail in the streets that caught his attention and that had nothing to do with his country of origin.
“Right now I am in Valencia and it is December 25. Something I wasn’t prepared for is that Valencia was a ghost city,” said this young American woman in TikTok through a video that has already accumulated more than 40,000 views.
He continued his speech by indicating that he has specific memories “of waking up in the US on the 25th and seeing that everyone was already awake. It’s 8:54 in the morning and this is a ghost town.”
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This girl says that, even though she has been living in Spain for a reasonable amount of time, she would never have imagined that there would be no movement in the city in the morning, given the dates in which we are.
“It’s creepy because I’ve been walking for about an hour and there’s been no one.”, he assured. Furthermore, he said that “the biggest movement” he has observed is that his morning walk came from a bird.
Finally, he said in the description of the video that life in that iconic city in Spain began to be seen from 12:21 and asked his followers when they started their day.
Some of them responded with the following messages: “In Valencia and throughout Spain, Christmas Day is to be with the family”, “you’ll see on January 1” or “at that time I’m not on the street, but sleeping neither. I’m at home opening presents with my children. It’s called the magic of Christmas.”
Another aspect that surprised this young woman from Spain and that she shared through social networks
In another video, this young woman also talked about something that caught her attention about Spain: how much we dress up to go out.
“In some parts of America, we don’t care much about fashion. In the universidad, it is common to go in a tracksuit. “In my hometown I would go to the mall in sweatpants, and for high school I would even wear pajama pants and no one would say anything to me.”
For this reason, he said that in our country people dress very well and that ““It doesn’t matter what season it is, what time it is, they are ‘dressed to impress.'”
With images of people walking down the street, he showed that they are not wearing “Prada or Gucci” clothes but that it is only a refined style: “Nothing scandalous, just elegant.”
He also took the opportunity to warn the rest of the Americans about the clothes they should include in their suitcases if they come to Spain because it is likely that “they can’t put it on.”
The video, as in the case mentioned above, went viral and reached 40,000 likes. Furthermore, the comments on this social network did not take long to arrive and were very disparate.
“In Spain, if you go out in pajamas, a bathrobe, and slippers, you must wear rosemary,” “at my school, if you showed up in pajamas they punished you,” “dead rather than simple,” or “if you combine your tracksuit well, you can wear it” , are some of them.
But there is more: One user wrote “and I was getting ready to go to the supermarket”, while another remembered and remembered “That a teacher at school told us that we could dress however we wanted except in pajamas, is a lack of respect.”
2024-01-04 08:22:33
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