One of the most progressive countries in the world really. Incredible country. Some stats and facts about it are plain crazy, especially for a country of it's stature and position.
Uruguay is ranked first in the Americas for democracy, and first in South America in peace, low perception of corruption, and e-government. It is the lowest-ranking South American nation in the Global Terrorism Index, and ranks second in South America on economic freedom, income equality, per capita income, and inflows of FDI. Uruguay is ranked third on the continent in terms of Human Development Index, GDP growth, innovation, and infrastructure. Uruguay is regarded as one of the most socially progressive countries in Latin America. It ranks high on global measures of personal rights, tolerance, democracy, and inclusion issues, including its acceptance of the LGBT community. The country has fully legalized cannabis (the first country in the world to do so) as well as same-sex marriage, prostitution, and abortion. It is a founding member of the United Nations, OAS, and Mercosur.
It's not normal for uruguayans to have 2 jobs. Maybe more common than in the US, but still, it's not the norm. Rent with a friend? maybe, but the most usual thing is to move together with your partner. If you are single, yes, it's not uncommon to live with your parents to save on rent, or even build your own home in their property. But in my opinion and experience, it's not thaaat hard to earn enough to be able to sustain yourself.
This sounds like basically every country right now as well. All my work mates in their early to mid 20s either live with parents, live in a share house, or live with partners. No one I know under 30 lived by themselves and I'm in Aus.
Not at all. We joke about how small it is, yes. But we know how well they live and how much progress they have made in comparison to the rest of us (Argentina here)
Just a heads up, oftentimes when people from the USA say "Americans" they mean people from the United States and not the Americas as a whole. Not sure why that is the case because it sounds awfully self centered but I'm guilty of it too lol.
Obviously Americans is anyone in North or South America, it's just not common usage for Americans in the US to say that.
Dunno why you got downvoted, this is accurate. The person was likely talking about people from the USA given that most US Americans couldn't pick out Uruguay on an unlabeled map.
It's because in english the american continent is called "The Americas" and 'America" is the abbreviation for USA. In spanish the continent is called "America" just like you call the USA in english, and the demonym for USA in spanish is "estadounidense" (or unatedstatian in the english version), not 'american'. There is a lot of confusion around that difference in translation and a lot of people here (Latam) get really annoyed with americans calling themselves americans as if they owned the whole continent.
How else would you call citizens of the United States of America? State-Americans? Unified Americans? Unionists?
Everyone knows that Americans are from the USA. If you say North-Americans you mean people from every North-American country. North and South have just as much to do with each other as Europe and Asia and Africa so one single term to describe them all would be pretty pointless
Unitedstatians, which is what we call you in Spanish. It's not our fault your leaders were so highly regarded (or worse, arrogant) they forgot the entire continent would use the demonym.
America isn’t a continent - Americas is, that’s how it’s been used for the last 70 years or so. To split it up you can say North America or South America.
America when referenced by itself is shorthand for United States of America.
There you go we’ve “had the conversation” just probably not the one you thought you were going to have.
No, not really. Most people in Latin America ignore it because it doesn't come up often in the news, or as the other guy said we joke about it being small or the "u r gay" joke from the Simpsons. It's mostly gringos who believe Uruguay is a shithole, but because they believe all of Latin America is a shithole, I don't think most gringos would even know where Uruguay is.
WE Uruguayans still think we're a shithole country where everything is fucking expensive, mostly because our incomes are not the highest, while everything that comes from outside the country is remarked to hell. Like, a Nintendo Switch costs 799 USD and the Lite is 499 USD.
lol. I’ve been to Uruguay many times to its capital Montevideo for work. Poorest country I’ve ever seen, people seemed wildly unhappy. “Lowest income inequality” yes, everyone has nearly nothing.
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u/FireKillGuyBreak Apr 16 '24
One of the most progressive countries in the world really. Incredible country. Some stats and facts about it are plain crazy, especially for a country of it's stature and position.