Everything Is Closer Here

The people are closer, as in they hug and kiss you even if they just met you. The cars drive closer on the road, yes it can be quite scary at times, but what are horns for? The houses are definitely a lot closer. In the states, or at least wisconsin, a lot of houses have yards and are farther apart, whereas here, teh houses are very close and if people have yards you wouldn´t be able to tell because most houses have a giant wall around them, plus teh yards would probably be very small anyway. The extended families are closer. Latin American culture accepts even distant cousins as being part of teh close family and welcome them into their home often. I would say probably 5 out of 7 days a week we have uncles, aunts, cousins and anyone else over to our house to chare a meal, and ALL of them are extremely friendly and accept me into their homes as well quite often. It´s a very close culture, in all aspects.