Culture-TRADITIONS, LANGUAGE, CUSTUMES, FOOD.

Their Traditions

In Chile they celebrate:
January 1: New Year's Day
May 21: Navy Day Commemorates the great naval battle of Iquique and other naval victories
June 29: Saint Peter and Saint Paul Catholic feast celebrating these Saints.
July 16: Fiesta de la Virgin del Carmen feast celebrated by Catholics.
August 15: Assumption of Mary rembering Mary's passage to heaven
September 18: Independence Day Chileans clebrate their independence.
September 19: Armed Forces Day Honors the military and their past victories
October 12: Columbus Day (Day of the Race) Remember day Columbus arrived America.
December 25: Christmas Day Christmas in Chile.

Language Changing from El Salvador’s
2 LANGUAGE CHANGING EXAMPLES

1. The words ending in -ado like it is in El Salvador changes to create an -ao sound. Chileans like to talk fast and this helps them.
For example,
pasado (past) = pasao
For example: el tiempo está en pasao. (The time is in past)

lado(side) = lao
For example: se encuentra al otro lao. (It’s in the other side.)

2. “Po” is a means in Spanish “pues” like in El Salvador. In Chile it is often used to link between sentences or phrases. “Po” goes on the end of many things. In El Salvador we don’t do that.
For example:
¿Cómo estás?(How are you?) Bien po. (Good so)
¿Fuiste al mercado?(Did you g oto the market?) Sí, po (Yes so)

Typical Costumes

The Chilean dress up is the typical outfit of the Huaso. Very different to El Salvador’s because women in Chile use big colorful dresses with patterns, the upper part looks like a separated shirt but it is par of the dress but is completely white, with some rag that mach the dresses colors, they use colorful necklaces, sandals and a striped shawl.
Men use some straw made hats, dark trousers, dark moccasins for the shoes, white long sleeves shirt and over the shirt a “sarape” with patterns and many colors.

It's FOOD

Breakfast in Chile is regularly a loaf of bread with toppings and coffey or tea. Bread is bought fresh daily from a corner bakery, shop, or a bread salesman that travels around the neighborhood.
In El Salvador it instead would be 2 tortillas, beans and coffey. (Some carbohydrates and proteins.)

he largest meal of the day is lunch. Which usually has traditional Chilean dishes like Cazuela (a stew), Pastel de Choclo (similar to Shepard pie), or a wide variety of bean dishes. In rural areas, lunch hour means businesses will close. In El Salvador it would be some rice, fruits or vegetables, meat and juice or some tipical food. (Again proteins, carbohydrates and vegetables or fruits.)

"Once" is a light meal eaten between 4 and 7 in the afternoon. Often times this is a repeat of breakfast; with bread and sandwich toppings with some tea or coffee a tradition is that men drink their liquor at that time. In El Salvador we don’t have “Once” it is optional,

Dinner will be the size of lunch with traditional Chilean food for some families; other families would have a dinner bigger than lunch. In El Salvador there can be some typical food with fruit or vegetable juice or something hot like coffey.

TYPICAL FOOD: 1 Pastel de Choclo, 2 Chilean Salad, 3 Salsa de Cilantro Prebe,
4 Chilean Salsa.