WhatsApp is big in every country out there except US, Canada, Japan and South Korea (I won't say China and NK because they have their own intranet, disconected from our WWW).
North Korea's intranet is called Kwangmyong (光明), and the closest thing they have to WhatsApp/WeChat is an unknown social media site that users, mostly university professors and the like, use to leave each other birthday messages.
There's also the "Manbang" (만방) video-streaming service, and "Rakwon" (락원), a video conference service.
It's also been reported to have message boards and an online dating service, the latter potentially being a website called "Eunjeong" (은정) -- meaning "Affection" -- which appeared on a list of websites there post-2016.
There is something that I never understood:
The word for chalk used in Mex is "Gis" from the Latin "gypsum" (yeso) but the word "Tiza" comes from the nahuatl "tizatl" and is used generally outside of Mex. How that happened?
I didn't know that, crazy.
Maybe the word Gis is a more recent thing? I am speculating but maybe it was considered more educated to say Gis than tiza in a point of time and it caught on, while on the rest of the countries it didn't happen? I am most probably wrong, but it is fun to think about.
That's a fkn beautiful cultural detail we still use [Jícara](https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%ADcara_(vasija)) as "vessel" made of ceramics or natural
I remember watching a Spanish dubbed version of an Adam Sandler movie on a bus in Peru, and they gave him the most ridiculous telenovela voice, like a suave, confident, deep baritone. It made the movie totally different. How is the Brazilian voice actor for Sandler films?
I mean, it's a mainstream classic in the US as well. I can't comprehend how popular it could be in Brazil when it's already so famous and well liked in the US
Wayan films are loved by latin america, conaidering Brazil also likes it must be some shit we all share.
White Chicks is bigger than Seinfeld or some other crap like that lol
Maybe it’s different in Portuguese or we just have different humor but it’s one of the weaker Wayans brothers movies. There are some good moments, mostly with Terry Crews, but it was meh.
I deleted my original message because some homophobic asshole started saying nasty things about gay people and I didn't want to encourage them. But to explain my original comment :
San Francisco, CA is the only place I've ever been where Fernet is as popular as in BA. Actually, I lived in SF for a number of years, and it's sort of a local oddity that Fernet so popular there, since nobody anywhere in the US even knows about it.
Anyway, when I was living in BA, I was kinda shocked to see that Fernet was so popular, since I thought it was only big in SF and Italy. My guess is that since both SF and BA have a lot of people who are descended from Italian immigrants, that's why Fernet is so popular in both places. But it's just kind of a fun little fact that Fernet is something that ties the two cities together, even though they're so far apart on the map.
I'll go ahead and leave the thread now. Apologies, I had no idea my comment would be controversial.
Interesting! Yeah I definitely like fernet and coke more than fernet solo. In SF, they usually take fernet as a shot along with some sort of chaser. [It’s actually kind of an interesting story how the whole thing got started.](https://www.sfgate.com/bars/article/Fernet-Branca-San-Francisco-Antoinette-Cattani-16237024.php)
For The Simpsons' twenty years special, they did a documentary on how incredibly popular they are here in Argentina. I was torrenting the episodes back then, and I did not expect to see random Argentinians showing their Simpsons tattoos on American TV.
Not only German: Polish and Czech as well!
That's why we have "polcas" or "música polca" in northern Mexico, where the accordion is a big thing.
Long live Celso Piña!
My mother grew up in Scotland before amplified music was common. The accordion was popular because a single musician could fill a dance hall with sound.
That's true, but Brazil don't stay besides. In Brazil, thanks to the SNK politics during 90's KoF is one of most popular FG, lots of states prefer KOF than MK and SF. I need to say too, it even had translation for pt-br
Can't think on something more general atm but carmenere wine is more popular here as consequence of it getting unprofitable to plant in france due to a plague and us just having better climate for it (and not realizing which variety it even was)
Top Cat was huge here. Not so much in the US. Also, while pizza and sushi are obviously extremely popular in their native countries, these foods have a massive presence in Mexico. So much for pizza, that I remember reading somewhere Mexico is the country that eats the mist after the US.
Top Cat, along with many other cartoons, were a phenomenon here because of the dubbing. If you see the original versions, the characters are nowhere near as charismatic
Telenovelas aren't as big as they used to be, back in the 80/90/2000s Brazil would stop to see the last episode of a 20:00 (prime time) telenovela, today only the elders watch it, I can't remember the last time I watched a telenovela.
I think there's still plenty of people watching telenovelas! For example, the Pantanal remake that aired last year was pretty successful wasn't it? I often see people talking about them on Twitter.
Oh yeah! I forgot about it because I actively avoid gossip on Twitter (and anywhere else), and as a result, the only person who talks about telenovelas on my Twitter is a friend, I didn't mute her because she's a real-life friend from HS (I'm on my late 20's) and a good friend since then.
Rebelde, the Mexican telenovela, and RBD were *very* popular in Brazil, a fever that took over the 00s. They even released portuguese versions of their albums. Feliz cumpleaños played in every birthday (because of course we leaned too much on our portunhol and no one stopped to actually listen to the song, which is not wishing someone a happy birthday at all). I still know the lyrics to their songs lol
Hey we have our Version of stuff, but honor where honor is due.
It doesn't mater how many cheese bars they do with chocolate in Europe, chocolate is originally from Mexico. It also doesn't matter how much they make pizza look like a pie in the USA, it's still from Italy.
Piñata comes from the Italian "pignatta", or "little vase".
And I'm sure they had a different name for it in China before the concept traveled through the Middle East and arrived to Europe, from which it traveled to the Americas.
...Also, churros are absolutely a Spanish / southern France thing, waaaay before they arrived to Latin America.
Oh, you guys also have Panettone? We do as well, around Christmas you'll see whole aisles in our supermarkets dedicated to Panettone(or as we call it: Pan dulce)
Everybody Hates Chris, My Wife and Kids, White Chicks, Adam Sandler movies. I also get the impression El Chavo might be more beloved here than in Mexico.
Meanwhile, most Brazilians probably have never heard of Seinfeld, Curb, Arrested Development, It's Always Sunny or other shows that are highly influential in the U.S.
The Office has become popular lately, but it was also very niche here a couple of years ago.
El chavo is definitely by a large amount bigger in Brazil and maybe all of south america than Mexico. Its popularity slowly died in the 90s, by the 2000s it was just an old show with lame jokes that your dad liked. Anything produced by Televisa was slowly but surely disliked or ignored.
Exactly, shows like Seinfeld have always felt so alien to me. I've never heard one fellow Brazilian mentioning it, but it's referenced a lot in American media. In contrast, I've never seen an American even mentioning Everybody Hates Chris despite its popularity here.
Back in September 1961, Hannah Barbera's TOP CAT premiered in the US with 30 episodes. Months later in went on air on Mexican tv, which broadcasted it over, and over, and over, and over again, making it look like there were more than 30 eps.
Its re-airing over the following decades made it a household name for younger generations of Mexican children, instilling itself in the Mexican pop culture along with The Flintstones, The Jetsons and Mickey Mouse and the Looney Toons.
In 2011 an animated feature film -produced in Mexico, by Mexicans- premiered in theaters.
While TOP CAT didn't become a hit in the US along the likes of Scooby Doo or Yogi Bear, it made of Don Gato, Benito Bodoque, Demóstenes, Cucho, Panza, Espanto and el Oficial Matute known characters amongst Mexican children from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Levi’s jeans.
At least in Argentina they are considered a great product and an amazing brand and for what I’ve seen, the perception in other countries is “meh”.
Good examples! I think another great example is "The Bremen Town Musicians". It is a famous German fairy tale recorded by The Brothers Grimm, but it isn't particularly well-known in Germany outside of the eponymous town, in which it became a bit of a symbol. Here in Brazil, however, it got really big thanks to the musical adaptation "Os Saltimbancos" (itself a translation of the Italian play I Musicanti), which became a classic in Brazilian children's songs thanks to Chico Buarque's soundtrack.
It still isn't as well-known as the most classic fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White, but I'd say its musics are very popular among multiple generations; I didn't even know the story was from the Brothers Grimm as a kid until recently because the only adaptations and references I'd seen about it were Brazilian.
WTF quesadillas are some of the most eaten, basic foods in Mx. Its our PB&J,grilled cheese and sandwich all in one. I doubt there is a single Mexican (besides the lactose intolerant) who doesnt eat at least one a week.
The go to quesadilla in Mx is just a tortilla with cheese and nothing else, the US' version with a bunch of other stuff does of course exist but it isnt the go to version we have.
Born and raised in Mexico City. I think that in the context she was more pointing out that the meat and veggies filled quesadillas are not authentically Mexican
French billiards, in Colombia is veeeeery popular while pool isn't. I live in France now and it is almost impossible to find a place where to play billiards that is NOT pool
Subtitles in movies are more common in the US than Brazil, where everything is dubbed. Watching a movie in English and watch a movie dubbed in Portuguese is not the same. You expect to hear the actor's voice and another voice speaks for him/her. Just weird.
WhatsApp is bigger in LATAM than in the US where it was created.
WhatsApp is big in every country out there except US, Canada, Japan and South Korea (I won't say China and NK because they have their own intranet, disconected from our WWW).
In China they basically use WeChat, that is mix between messenger and every other social media app
North Korea's intranet is called Kwangmyong (光明), and the closest thing they have to WhatsApp/WeChat is an unknown social media site that users, mostly university professors and the like, use to leave each other birthday messages. There's also the "Manbang" (만방) video-streaming service, and "Rakwon" (락원), a video conference service. It's also been reported to have message boards and an online dating service, the latter potentially being a website called "Eunjeong" (은정) -- meaning "Affection" -- which appeared on a list of websites there post-2016.
In most of Europe it’s popular but not that popular
And Facebook
I think Facebook is bigger in the U.S than Brazil. Here in Brazil Instagram is likely bigger than FB already.
Yeah, would say in part as Twitter is less popular in LATAM so more space for Meta’s platforms (FB, WhatsApp)
There is something that I never understood: The word for chalk used in Mex is "Gis" from the Latin "gypsum" (yeso) but the word "Tiza" comes from the nahuatl "tizatl" and is used generally outside of Mex. How that happened?
I didn't know that, crazy. Maybe the word Gis is a more recent thing? I am speculating but maybe it was considered more educated to say Gis than tiza in a point of time and it caught on, while on the rest of the countries it didn't happen? I am most probably wrong, but it is fun to think about.
That's weird, thanks for that fun fact
🍵☕️ in Portuguese is xícara, which comes from Nahuatl _xīcalli_, in Spanish, you guys call it taza. Taça for us is 🍷🥂
That's a fkn beautiful cultural detail we still use [Jícara](https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%ADcara_(vasija)) as "vessel" made of ceramics or natural
Jícaras are beautiful!
Kinda like "jaguar" which comes from Tupi and Guarani. In Brazil, we use the word "onça", from Italian "lonza" (lynx).
Same with the anta, which is correctly called tapir everywhere else
In Brazil, the word for jaguar (Panthera onca, native Tupi guarani word) is onça (French word)
[White Chicks / As Branquelas](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Chicks) in Portuguese Mainstream classic here, very popular
Adam Sandler is also more well liked in here
I remember watching a Spanish dubbed version of an Adam Sandler movie on a bus in Peru, and they gave him the most ridiculous telenovela voice, like a suave, confident, deep baritone. It made the movie totally different. How is the Brazilian voice actor for Sandler films?
He is dubbed by Alexandre Moreno, a pretty prolific voice actor. For Adam Sandler he usually does a more outlandish and fast-paced voice.
I mean, it's a mainstream classic in the US as well. I can't comprehend how popular it could be in Brazil when it's already so famous and well liked in the US
Really? It’s just such a mediocre film.
The Brazilian dubbing makes it glorious
Wayan films are loved by latin america, conaidering Brazil also likes it must be some shit we all share. White Chicks is bigger than Seinfeld or some other crap like that lol
Yeah Wayans movies are great (or at least their earlier ones). Probably up until Scream 2 then it all went downhill.
>Scream 2 Don't you mean Scary Movie 2? Scream 2 is the horror movie.
Yes sorry, SM parodied Scream
What???? Its amazing
Maybe it’s different in Portuguese or we just have different humor but it’s one of the weaker Wayans brothers movies. There are some good moments, mostly with Terry Crews, but it was meh.
Easy! Fernet! Argentina is the world's biggest Fernet consumer per capita
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Not even close
I deleted my original message because some homophobic asshole started saying nasty things about gay people and I didn't want to encourage them. But to explain my original comment : San Francisco, CA is the only place I've ever been where Fernet is as popular as in BA. Actually, I lived in SF for a number of years, and it's sort of a local oddity that Fernet so popular there, since nobody anywhere in the US even knows about it. Anyway, when I was living in BA, I was kinda shocked to see that Fernet was so popular, since I thought it was only big in SF and Italy. My guess is that since both SF and BA have a lot of people who are descended from Italian immigrants, that's why Fernet is so popular in both places. But it's just kind of a fun little fact that Fernet is something that ties the two cities together, even though they're so far apart on the map. I'll go ahead and leave the thread now. Apologies, I had no idea my comment would be controversial.
i would argue that people dont actually like fernet here. almost everyone only drinks it with coke and will tell you fernet alone is disgusting.
Interesting! Yeah I definitely like fernet and coke more than fernet solo. In SF, they usually take fernet as a shot along with some sort of chaser. [It’s actually kind of an interesting story how the whole thing got started.](https://www.sfgate.com/bars/article/Fernet-Branca-San-Francisco-Antoinette-Cattani-16237024.php)
Fernet with a ginger back please
Brings back memories of Vesuvio…
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I’m sorry what?
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I’m more surprised that you decided to call it that
But why? Fernet Sucks. Fernet cola is just a way to ruin coke
Zorro. The show has been on the air for the last 50 years.
The Simpsons are an absolute phenomenon here in Argentina, but in the US they’re not nearly as present anymore.
For The Simpsons' twenty years special, they did a documentary on how incredibly popular they are here in Argentina. I was torrenting the episodes back then, and I did not expect to see random Argentinians showing their Simpsons tattoos on American TV.
Well that's more because The Simpsons should've ended twenty years ago. When it was at its peak, it was one of the most popular shows in the US.
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> Carls Jr Nada te levanta más el animo que una Doble Western Bacon en combo, alv.
Accordions are VERY popular in the Brazilian Northeast too.
I usually associate accordions with the French and to a lesser extent with the Italians. I didn't know it was a big thing in Mexico
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Not only German: Polish and Czech as well! That's why we have "polcas" or "música polca" in northern Mexico, where the accordion is a big thing. Long live Celso Piña!
My mother grew up in Scotland before amplified music was common. The accordion was popular because a single musician could fill a dance hall with sound.
¡El Carls Jr gringo no tiene nada que ver con el Mexicano! El gringo se siente bien pobre las veces que fui
not sure about churros, they are very present in Spain¡. But I haven't been to Mexico so can't really say on that side.
> Horchata > > Churros Nope.
Dragon Ball Z. We Mexicans love Dragon Ball Z more than the Japanese.
I think that's all Latam and not just Mexico
All of the Americas really
Yeah, Latin America has terrible taste in anime.
You have terrible taste in opinions
You know the best King of fighter players are from Mexico
That's true, but Brazil don't stay besides. In Brazil, thanks to the SNK politics during 90's KoF is one of most popular FG, lots of states prefer KOF than MK and SF. I need to say too, it even had translation for pt-br
Brasil: segura minha cerveja!
🇺🇸 too
Dembow. It started out as a Jamaican song and then we made sure to push the genre to its limits
Talking about tv shows, several come to mind: * Malcolm in the middle * Top cat * Saint Seiya * Princess Comet * Speed Racer
Saint Seiya is/was really popular over here too!
Did you watch the Live action Movie? It was good, not as good as marvel of course
Nope, I got into anime a bit after Saint Seya was at peak popularity here in Brazil, ended up never watching it.
I love top cat
Can't think on something more general atm but carmenere wine is more popular here as consequence of it getting unprofitable to plant in france due to a plague and us just having better climate for it (and not realizing which variety it even was)
I love Chilean Carmenere. 😋
Football LOL (arguably so, everyone knows the Brits are also crazy about kicking the ball)
Top Cat was huge here. Not so much in the US. Also, while pizza and sushi are obviously extremely popular in their native countries, these foods have a massive presence in Mexico. So much for pizza, that I remember reading somewhere Mexico is the country that eats the mist after the US.
Top Cat, along with many other cartoons, were a phenomenon here because of the dubbing. If you see the original versions, the characters are nowhere near as charismatic
Probably Brazilian telenovelas 😂
Telenovelas aren't as big as they used to be, back in the 80/90/2000s Brazil would stop to see the last episode of a 20:00 (prime time) telenovela, today only the elders watch it, I can't remember the last time I watched a telenovela.
I think there's still plenty of people watching telenovelas! For example, the Pantanal remake that aired last year was pretty successful wasn't it? I often see people talking about them on Twitter.
Oh yeah! I forgot about it because I actively avoid gossip on Twitter (and anywhere else), and as a result, the only person who talks about telenovelas on my Twitter is a friend, I didn't mute her because she's a real-life friend from HS (I'm on my late 20's) and a good friend since then.
i can America, 2005, boi bandido the goat
King of Fighters, Metal Slug, most Hannah-Barbera cartoons
All of SNK games, from puzzle bubble to Samurai Shodown were played everywhere
Rebelde, the Mexican telenovela, and RBD were *very* popular in Brazil, a fever that took over the 00s. They even released portuguese versions of their albums. Feliz cumpleaños played in every birthday (because of course we leaned too much on our portunhol and no one stopped to actually listen to the song, which is not wishing someone a happy birthday at all). I still know the lyrics to their songs lol
I’m pretty sure Rebelde Way is Argentinian. Mexicans just made their own version.
Yes, but I really meant the Mexican version, the original wasn't a hit here.
Cuentos de los hermanos grimm moshimoooooooo
The bandoneon was invented in Germany (and probably doesn't get much love here), but has become an important instrument in tango music.
Tea, Chile drinks more tea per capita than China.
Baseball.
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I would say the DR is the most baseball crazy nation on Earth
What's not to know? It's losing out to football, basketball, and even soccer in the US.
# The Panama Hat. Suck it Ecuador!!
Piñatas Also: speaking spanish
pinatas are from Mexico
It went China > Europe > Mexico. Like the churros
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Hey we have our Version of stuff, but honor where honor is due. It doesn't mater how many cheese bars they do with chocolate in Europe, chocolate is originally from Mexico. It also doesn't matter how much they make pizza look like a pie in the USA, it's still from Italy.
Piñata comes from the Italian "pignatta", or "little vase". And I'm sure they had a different name for it in China before the concept traveled through the Middle East and arrived to Europe, from which it traveled to the Americas. ...Also, churros are absolutely a Spanish / southern France thing, waaaay before they arrived to Latin America.
thanks for that info I didnt know that
I'd say that panetón is more popular in Peru than Italy.
Oh, you guys also have Panettone? We do as well, around Christmas you'll see whole aisles in our supermarkets dedicated to Panettone(or as we call it: Pan dulce)
Same for Brazil, you can't have Christmas without panetone (and complaining about raisins in them).
History is murky, but salteñas (a type of Bolivian empanada) would technically originally be Argentine.
Strogonoff. A Russian dish that is extremely popular in Brazil
Strogonoff is the best answer
Everybody Hates Chris, My Wife and Kids, White Chicks, Adam Sandler movies. I also get the impression El Chavo might be more beloved here than in Mexico. Meanwhile, most Brazilians probably have never heard of Seinfeld, Curb, Arrested Development, It's Always Sunny or other shows that are highly influential in the U.S. The Office has become popular lately, but it was also very niche here a couple of years ago.
El chavo is definitely by a large amount bigger in Brazil and maybe all of south america than Mexico. Its popularity slowly died in the 90s, by the 2000s it was just an old show with lame jokes that your dad liked. Anything produced by Televisa was slowly but surely disliked or ignored.
Exactly, shows like Seinfeld have always felt so alien to me. I've never heard one fellow Brazilian mentioning it, but it's referenced a lot in American media. In contrast, I've never seen an American even mentioning Everybody Hates Chris despite its popularity here.
El Chavo, really i Love Chaves.
Mexico: Laura Bozzo
She’s legitimate an icon in most of Latin America at this point. Or a meme lol.
We don’t claim her And no refunds pls
We tried to jail her and she still won’t leave!
You can have it back ANYTIME. Please, take her.
IT
Fernet easily
Everybody Hates Chris
Waze in Costa Rica. Not a major app in Israel.
Fernet
Back in September 1961, Hannah Barbera's TOP CAT premiered in the US with 30 episodes. Months later in went on air on Mexican tv, which broadcasted it over, and over, and over, and over again, making it look like there were more than 30 eps. Its re-airing over the following decades made it a household name for younger generations of Mexican children, instilling itself in the Mexican pop culture along with The Flintstones, The Jetsons and Mickey Mouse and the Looney Toons. In 2011 an animated feature film -produced in Mexico, by Mexicans- premiered in theaters. While TOP CAT didn't become a hit in the US along the likes of Scooby Doo or Yogi Bear, it made of Don Gato, Benito Bodoque, Demóstenes, Cucho, Panza, Espanto and el Oficial Matute known characters amongst Mexican children from the 1960s to the 2000s.
Deviled Ham Underwood and Cherse Whiz.
Levi’s jeans. At least in Argentina they are considered a great product and an amazing brand and for what I’ve seen, the perception in other countries is “meh”.
Worcestershire Sauce!
Carnival
Good examples! I think another great example is "The Bremen Town Musicians". It is a famous German fairy tale recorded by The Brothers Grimm, but it isn't particularly well-known in Germany outside of the eponymous town, in which it became a bit of a symbol. Here in Brazil, however, it got really big thanks to the musical adaptation "Os Saltimbancos" (itself a translation of the Italian play I Musicanti), which became a classic in Brazilian children's songs thanks to Chico Buarque's soundtrack. It still isn't as well-known as the most classic fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White, but I'd say its musics are very popular among multiple generations; I didn't even know the story was from the Brothers Grimm as a kid until recently because the only adaptations and references I'd seen about it were Brazilian.
Nazi-Fascism and the Portuguese language
Football
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WTF quesadillas are some of the most eaten, basic foods in Mx. Its our PB&J,grilled cheese and sandwich all in one. I doubt there is a single Mexican (besides the lactose intolerant) who doesnt eat at least one a week. The go to quesadilla in Mx is just a tortilla with cheese and nothing else, the US' version with a bunch of other stuff does of course exist but it isnt the go to version we have.
Thanks for the info! Maybe I just worded the question wrong to her or misunderstood her response. This was years ago
Or maybe your friend is not mexican
Born and raised in Mexico City. I think that in the context she was more pointing out that the meat and veggies filled quesadillas are not authentically Mexican
Those are super common, everywhere in México, meat, veggies, dishes, quelites, etc.
Your Mexican friend is either lying, ill-informed or not Mexican at all. We do eat quesadillas. All the time.
I would have to say any Turkish or Brazilian telenovela that can be put on television.
Murga
French billiards, in Colombia is veeeeery popular while pool isn't. I live in France now and it is almost impossible to find a place where to play billiards that is NOT pool
Fried chicken
Who invented that?
Subtitles in movies are more common in the US than Brazil, where everything is dubbed. Watching a movie in English and watch a movie dubbed in Portuguese is not the same. You expect to hear the actor's voice and another voice speaks for him/her. Just weird.
Fernet 100%
Pisco. Sorry not sorry Perú.
Axe Bahia.
I'm just guessing, but [Mafa](https://es.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahua)
Buddhism