Post: #26

(01-23-2013 03:22 AM)azulsombra Wrote:  

(01-22-2013 12:37 PM)Tenerife Wrote:  

(01-22-2013 03:41 AM)azulsombra Wrote:  My Scale

Argentina 5
Colombia 6
Guatemala 1
Peru 6
Costa Rica 5
Mexico 2
Brazil 7
Ecuador 7
Chile 4
Panama 6
Nicaragua 6
Uruguay 8

You rank peru as harder than argentina? Could you maybe elaborate on why think that?

Personal experience. I'm a brotha so my experience is gonna be different in LatinAm than a white american. Brothas in Argentina are a rarity, and an African American who speaks spanish can do well in Argentina. I wrote about my experience there in some other threads.

This was the opposite of my experience in Peru, and the experience I had there was mirrored by other black travelers I met in the country.

hmmm alright.

but you found uruguay more difficult? I would think blacks are also rare there?

And guatemala was super easy despite that being, at least in my mind, somewhat similar to peru in terms of the indigenous population?

Post: #27

Blacks actually are not as rare in uruguay. 5-10% percent of the population is afro-uruguayan and they have low status. So being black isnt a positive there. Also in general uruguay is a smaller more insular country and social stigma to hooking up with a foreigner seemed higher there. How many guys on here talk about killing it in uruguay? Whether they are black, white or yellow.

Guatemala has a large indigenous population, as does peru but it is a fallacy to assume that all native populations in latinamerica are the same. For example andean natives look a lot different than mayan natives. Also guatemala has belize next door and many guatemalans i met had a desire to visit belize, maybe this also gave them positive associations with being black. Who knows. All i know is how it went down.