Colombia is a beautiful, happy and complete country, because of his different and delightful natural sceneries, his natural wealth, his particular costumes and his happy and joyfull people.
Colombia is a developing country with a classic and democratic state structure. It is an independent country since 1824. It contains 6 regions, 32 departaments and 1118 cities. Its capital city is Bogotá, a very cold city.
OUR PRESIDENT:
CULTURE AND COSTUMES:
Culture is the main characteristic in
common of the population. Here we will see a little bit of Colombia´s
culture:
GREETINGS:
In Colombia, greetings are according
with the context:
- Informal Context:
- Formal Context:
If
you are in a formal context like in a business meeting, you should
take the other person's hand (the right hand is more used for that)
and use a greeting according with the day hour (example: if it's in
the morning, good morning, if it's in the
afternoon, good afternon, and like that).
When you don't know a person, someone
like a friend of you has to introduce hin/her to you. Depending of
the person's gender is the way you have to greet. If it's a man, just
shake his hand, but if it's a woman, it's better to kiss her on the
right cheek.
If you want to greet with your parents,
first you say hello mom/dad, how are you today? and
then you have to kiss him/her on the cheek.
It's not well seen that a man kisses
another man even if it's on the cheek, but it's normally well seen
that a man kiss a woman or a woman kiss another woman, but only on
the cheek.
COMUNICATION STYLE:
Colombian speaking changes according to
the context:
-
Formal Context:
If a Colombian person is in a formal or
elegant context, like a business meeting, they speak very well; they
use elegant and dificult verbs and words. They also speaks in a very
low voice volume.
- Informal context:
If a colombian person is in an informal
context, they speak in a slang and louder speaking manner.
Colombians use bad words
with other meaning to speak with friends.
Some Colombians use words
like “cucho” and “cucha” to speak about their parents.
REGIONALISM:
Colombians are religious people because of the catholic influence in our country.
Colombian people love sports, more specifically soccer.
In general, Colombians are genial,
exciting, ancestral and humorous people.
Each region of Colombia has a typical
dish which represents them in the Colombian cuisine, some of them
are:
Bandeja Paisa:
Tamal Tolimense:
It´s
a combination of corn flour, potatoes, carrots, beef, chicken meat,
pork, peas, all that wrapped in a plantain leaf. Tamal is served with
rice, salad and fried banana. That typical dish represents Tolima in
Colombian cuisine. I think Tamal tolimense is a delicious food that
makes us feel the Colombian flavor.
Ajiaco:

It
is a chicken soup cooked in firewood that contains potatoes,
cassavas, corn and plantains .
It represents Cali and Valle del Cauca in Colombian cuisine. I think
sancocho de gallina represents the happy and exotic Colombian
personality.
Pargo Rojo Frito:

Lechona:
It
represents Tolima in Colombian cuisine too. It is a curious typical
dish because is a fried pig stuffed with rice, peas and pork. It
reflects Colombian inventiveness.
Ternera a la Llanera:
