Spanish Culture Essay

When I moved to California eight years ago, I always ask myself “why people think that because we speak Spanish we are from the same country and we are classify as Latinos?” at the beginning it was so offensive that people will ask me “Are you Latina from Mexico or EL Salvador?” and used to get so upset and tell them “No! I am from Ecuador and I am Hispanic”. Despite, the fact that Latinos and Hispanics speaks Spanish as their primer language of communication, this does not mean that we are all from the same country. First, it is well known that must of Hispanics and Latinos speak Spanish to communicate with each other’s. However, this does not mean that we are all from the same place and also that we all speak the same Spanish. In fact, the meaning and use of words are very different in each ethnicity, meaning that the use of a word that for me it is not offensive, for others can be a bad word and even
For example, Mexican, Salvadorian, and Guatemalan eat tortillas, enchiladas, sopes, beans, rice, tacos, burritos and much more. However, what people does not know about Hispanics is that we are all from South America and even though we all are Hispanics our countries have huge differences between culture and food. For example, in Ecuador we eat guinea pig at any time of the year and can be found everywhere; unlike, Peru, Colombia, and Brazil to find guinea pigs depends in what part of the country we are and the time of the year. On the other hand, Latinos are consider all the counties from Central America. In this countries the food and culture are more similar within each other’s. For example, I know people from Mexico, El Salvador, and Guatemala and their culture and food look a lot alike; they eat tortillas, spicy food, have the same way preparing food and even their culture look