[Tenerife]

(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?

[azulsombra]

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.