Colombian Culture Vs American Culture Essay

I am a part of the Colombian culture was born and live in Bogota, Colombia until I was fourteen years old. Bogota is the main capital of Colombia and the largest city in Colombia. Growing up in the culture I saw many aspects of economical and status differences. The city is mostly divided in economical class, meaning people who live in the south have less money and people who live in the north have grown into more of luxuries Colombia culture. In many other ways I felt other thing with it the culture was separated like the school system. Colombia has schools that are “mixtos” meaning mixed, and “sólo sexo” meaning single sex. Also most the mixed school are considers to be for high population low income people while the single sex school for more rich people and more religious. To your left is a normal south neighborhood in Bogota, while in the North (the right image) shows more exclusive environment. …show more content…
Eventually one becomes easily very macro-culture where family relationships must stay very close, relationship patterns mainly the kids are though in early age to have manners such as saying hello, or how are you and to talk to elders with respect like “Si Señor “ meaning Yes Sir and “Si Señora” Yes Ma’am. This was a hard part to adjust in the American culture because in the beginning when seeing a kid speak to an adult like a teacher and hearing them say “What” or “Huh” seems so inappropriate and with no respect to the elderly, but eventually I became more liberal and less judgmental. Another pattern of macro culture in Colombia culture is to practice the catholic religion all these seems to me now like an expectation where the sake are high for better economical status and to be integrated in the