What are the biggest misconceptions about your country?

[Tooting Carmen]

As far as phenotypes are concerned, Britain has a lot fewer death-pale people, and a lot more people who can tan well, than is often perceived to be the case. Meanwhile, Colombia is a lot more diverse than is often thought to be the case, with many more Whites/quasi-Whites as well as Blacks/quasi-Blacks than many people think.

[Queue]

Totally true.
And another important issue.
Central American people are very quiet in general with very nice behavior.
I went to Honduras and people there are just the opposite of violent.
The huge problem are just only the maras and as the most of our countries, the drugs.
I've never been in El Salvador but all cuzcatlecos I know are extremely nice people and super quiet.

Yeah, many of us tend to be a bit stoic.

[Tequilo]

Excelente descripcion sobre ellos (no todos los Peruanos claro, Incal no es asi, por si acaso leyese esto)

Estoy pensando en tal vez mas adelante participar en ese foro, solo para darme el gusto de ponerlos en tu lugar. Hazme saber, por favor, si no te importaria si de paso citase este post tuyo, si viniese al caso.

Claro, sin ningún problema. Yo los he puesto muchas veces en su lugar en Youtube y en otros foros, pero esa gente está enferma de chauvinismo, no aceptan la realidad de las cosas aún cuando les dices que 2+2 son 4.

[time67]

As far as phenotypes are concerned, Britain has a lot fewer death-pale people, and a lot more people who can tan well, than is often perceived to be the case. Meanwhile, Colombia is a lot more diverse than is often thought to be the case, with many more Whites/quasi-Whites as well as Blacks/quasi-Blacks than many people think.

Would you say this is a pretty accurate "overlap" matchup for Colombia?

Andean Region = Costa Rica

Orinoquia Region = Venezuela

Caribbean Region = Northeast Brazil

El Choco = Guadaloupe

Amazon Region = Honduras

[Awebo]

The ranking says 10% you illiterate. Read the source I posted below which you omitted: http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVS...=6&COUNTRY=875

That's not what the map shows. Mexico is the same shade of blue as Germany; 5%-9.9%. If it was more than 10% it would be the same shade as Poland... look at them [Germany and Poland] next to one another and tell us which shade is more similar to Mexico's.

That link takes me to stats about Turkey.

[Tooting Carmen]

Would you say this is a pretty accurate "overlap" matchup for Colombia?

Andean Region = Costa Rica

Orinoquia Region = Venezuela

Caribbean Region = Northeast Brazil

El Choco = Guadaloupe

Amazon Region = Honduras

That's too simplistic.

[MiloshN]

If we were worse than Hitler. And that we are the only blame for everything.

[Marco94]

That's not what the map shows. Mexico is the same shade of blue as Germany; 5%-9.9%. If it was more than 10% it would be the same shade as Poland... look at them [Germany and Poland] next to one another and tell us which shade is more similar to Mexico's.

That link takes me to stats about Turkey.

Here’s the full rank:



There’s no direct link since it’s a flash site, but you can use the search engine inside the webside and type “neighbor”: the full rank will display.

In Mexico it’s 10.2% of the population.

[Awebo]

Here’s the full rank:



There’s no direct link since it’s a flash site, but you can use the search engine inside the webside and type “neighbor”: the full rank will display.

In Mexico it’s 10.2% of the population.

Surveys lol, no wonder Argentina is only 1%, they probably asked white bonoarenses if they have ever been victims of racism and of course they were going to say no.

Who in their right mind is going to believe only 1% of Argentines show racist behavior?

[Marco94]

Surveys lol, no wonder Argentina is only 1%, they probably asked white bonoarenses if they have ever been victims of racism and of course they were going to say no.

Who in their right mind is going to believe only 1% of Argentines show racist behavior?

The survey is not about that. They asked “would you like to have a person of another race as neighbor?”. What does it have to do with white porteños facing racism?

The method and the samples gathered are public and you can well see that the survey was carried out with representative samples throughout the countries.

If you want to question it, just post another survey and we compare the method used. If you just don’t like the results, well, it’s your problem.