Dating chileans
HE recites Neruda verses as he pops morsels of empanada de pino into your mouth. He sports an uncouth Che Guevara-like beard and waxes poetic on the ills of Western-enforced capitalism. He can peel an entire avocado in one go. Your Chilean is a god. But it does. For inexplicable reasons, gorda and gordita are favorites in the otherwise pretty great pantheon of Chilean terms of endearment.


13 Customs Only Chileans Can Understand
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13 Customs Only Chileans Can Understand
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Expectations for Chilean Women
You used to roll your eyes when you came across a couple canoodling in public. There are different types of cueca — the most aggressive form consists of the man dance-chasing his female partner in a circle with hops, twirls, and fancy footwork thrown in for good measure. This means they never have to go through the trials and errors of dorm-room cooking or the struggles of learning to feed themselves more than ramen post-college. As women still typically do the family cooking, Chilean men in particular might never learn how to cook, so even if all you can whip up is a cheese omelet, your Chilean boyfriend will be amazed. Dinner and a movie or a night out on the town might not always be on the agenda, so you two will design dates that are a bit more piola chill : going for long walks, hanging out at home, or even trolling a mall — a favorite Chilean pastime.





Santiago, Chile — Since Santiago plunged into a strict, total lockdown to curb record rates of daily COVID infections, Nilda Bravo is not sure when she can go back to her job as a housekeeper — or when she will next get paid. This week, daily COVID cases countrywide surged past the 7, mark — the highest single-day tally in Chile since the pandemic first struck. New lockdown measures, in force since last week, are consequently stricter than before, too: residents can go out only twice a week to buy food and must present permissions to do so.
