It is more than clear that there are many cultural differences between the United States and Spain, starting with the language and ending, for example, with the education provided in their schools and universities. And it is just the latter that we are going to talk to you about today.
Lucía Castellini is a young American who studies in Barcelonaat Pompeu Fabra University, and which has gone viral on TikTok by pointing out the differences between what we do in Spain and what is done in the United States.
The difference between US and Spanish universities
“People are already smoking cigarettes at half past seven in the morning. It’s a ‘European thing’ but it’s crazy to see because it never happens in the United States,” he says. Although it is not the only thing that surprises her. That they drink beers at 10 in the morning in the university cafeteria also attracts his attention.
To go to the bathroom, in Spain we ask the teacher for permission and in the United States it is not done, and he is also surprised that in the classes you cannot eat, something that is allowed in his country.
She has also freaked out with the class hours, much longer in Spain, and with the fact that there are classes late in the afternoon, because at 7:30 for this young woman it is already night (although we are just beginning). “There were days that she had class at seven-thirty in the morning and others at seven in the evening and finished at nine-thirty at night. She didn’t even know this was a possibility.” AND he was surprised with the correction of the exams type test because here if you fail, you subtract points and not there.
Very healthy with that of not smoking and not drinking, but in what has been geography, for example, they are regular if we pay attention to How do they see the Spanish in the US according to this other tiktoker.
But the video is not the best. are the comments. “Friend, it’s the Mediterranean diet, coffee and cigarettes”, or one that mentions its well-known scarce geography worldwide “here we know the countries, or for example that Paris is in France” or a mention of something very ours, the nap, of which they assure that he does not complain about it.
Photos | TikTok @lucia_castellini
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