Hello everyone!

[tady]

I'm new to the board and have been lurking around reading about "latinas".
I would like to ask; What is the difference of a latina from Mexico and a latina from Columbia? I ask this question because I have noticed that majority of you in the latina forum have more interest in a latina from Columbia and not Mexico.

I have read some post that latinas from Columbia are more beautiful than latinas from Mexico.
How about their personality, traits, values, in compairing the two, and so on.

Thanks in advance for in lighting me.
~tady

[braziliangirl]

Welcome, tady!

One thing that I learned here is that Mexican girls don't consider themselves latinas. So be careful when you approach them to not refer as that

I also want to know why Colombians are so highly rated here...

[utopiacowboy]

They don't consider themselves Latinas? That's news to me and I live in South Texas. I am not sure where you got that from.

[braziliangirl]

From poor generalization!

And this topic: http://www.planet-love.com/forum/index.php?topic=5015.msg58438#msg58438

[fschmidt]

You should change the subject of this thread to "Mexicanas versus Colombianas" or something like that.  I would be interested to hear from someone familiar with both countries.  I know Mexico but not Colombia.

[utopiacowboy]

You should change the subject of this thread to "Mexicanas versus Colombianas" or something like that.  I would be interested to hear from someone familiar with both countries.  I know Mexico but not Colombia.

Visited both countries many times. I live very close to Mexico and I am married to a Colombiana. A gringo is never going to get the "Brad Pitt" feeling in Mexico that you get in Colombia.

[robert angel]

Yes--In parts of Mexico, gringos are so common that I got the feeling that a lot of people were so nice to me because it was 'good for business', but not from the heart.

[Alabamaboy!]

I have dated many Colombianas and Mexicanas and they are very different in most respects. 

1. Mexicans in general are not very eager to marry gringos, the prefer to marry other Mexicans
2. Mexicans tend to stay keep more of their own traditions from Mexico
3. Mexicans tend to cook and clean more because it is an area of pride for them. Colombians usually have had servants to do all those sorts of things for them. Because it is so inexpensive.
4. Colombians are usually far more outgoing, style conscious
5. Most Colombianas I have met are more obsessed in their physical beauty and will do just about anything to preserve it, most notably plastic surgery. Mexicanas kind of "let themselves go" many times.
6. Mexicans seem to be far more into the "family life"
7. The food they cook is very different. Mexican food is usually very spicy. Colombian food bland.
8. In the bed Colombianas seem more vocal, more willing to do whatever thing to satisfy their man. Mexicanas are a lot more conservative. But both are great!
9. Most Colombianas seem obsessed with "studying" at the University. Although it seems like this is more for the socialization than learning anything. Mexicanas I met are usually more interested in working and having a family.
10. The music of Colombia is much more different, with a lot of salsa, reggaeton, vallenato, and the number one "sport" there seems to be dancing. In Mexico, seems like 80% of the people love banda or nortena music.  So that sexy, tropical vibe is missing.

These are just generalizations that I have observed. But in reality, for the most part, women of all over the world are more similar than different. So if you are going to Colombia or any other place to find something very different, you will soon find out that there are materialistic  pain in the butt women there, and good women and everything in between.  Just like here or anywhere.

[Pivery]

 I lived in Southern California very close to the border obviously and very near an area where only Latinos feared to tread. I felt while shopping there or looking around
that I was only tolerated for my $ but not welcomed. In Colombia much the same feeling, but unlike Mexico which only recently has a gigantic drug problem spilling over into
the states and bringing the country a lot of bad publicity Colombians were trying to shed their stigma of Pablo Escobar and the perceived notion that everyone is either a drug
trafficker or a part of Las Farc so the Colombians were trying harder to welcome visitors/new transplants then from the Mexican side.

Nothing etched in stone here, just my perception of more than 30 years of living in CA/visiting Mexico...

Oh yeah, welcome to the board tady and good luck to you!

Pivery

 

[robert angel]

In parts of Mexico, the amount of drug related murders and the ghastliness of their methods is incredible. I have been around various ethnic, organized crime groups and I thought the Russians and Albanians were the the most murderous and most inventive in their ways of killing mutilating and otherwise 'making a statement' but there's always some group trying to top things. Them taking the skin/faces off of heads and sewing them to soccer balls is a more current method they're using to instill fear. And more and more innocent people, both there and in now more frequently in the USA, are getting killed in the process.

[utopiacowboy]

I have dated many Colombianas and Mexicanas and they are very different in most respects. 

1. Mexicans in general are not very eager to marry gringos, the prefer to marry other Mexicans
2. Mexicans tend to stay keep more of their own traditions from Mexico
3. Mexicans tend to cook and clean more because it is an area of pride for them. Colombians usually have had servants to do all those sorts of things for them. Because it is so inexpensive.
4. Colombians are usually far more outgoing, style conscious
5. Most Colombianas I have met are more obsessed in their physical beauty and will do just about anything to preserve it, most notably plastic surgery. Mexicanas kind of "let themselves go" many times.
6. Mexicans seem to be far more into the "family life"
7. The food they cook is very different. Mexican food is usually very spicy. Colombian food bland.
8. In the bed Colombianas seem more vocal, more willing to do whatever thing to satisfy their man. Mexicanas are a lot more conservative. But both are great!
9. Most Colombianas seem obsessed with "studying" at the University. Although it seems like this is more for the socialization than learning anything. Mexicanas I met are usually more interested in working and having a family.
10. The music of Colombia is much more different, with a lot of salsa, reggaeton, vallenato, and the number one "sport" there seems to be dancing. In Mexico, seems like 80% of the people love banda or nortena music.  So that sexy, tropical vibe is missing.

These are just generalizations that I have observed. But in reality, for the most part, women of all over the world are more similar than different. So if you are going to Colombia or any other place to find something very different, you will soon find out that there are materialistic  pain in the butt women there, and good women and everything in between.  Just like here or anywhere.

I think you're spot on with all of them except number 6 in my own experience. My wife works with mostly Mexicans and Mexican-Americans at the Toyota plant and they are all of one mind when it comes to the most important thing in life: family! Although my wife and her coworkers are hard workers, they all believe that the Japanese place too much emphasis on work and not enough on family.

[raycjs]

Welcome to the board

[anm8tr]

I think you're spot on with all of them except number 6 in my own experience. My wife works with mostly Mexicans and Mexican-Americans at the Toyota plant and they are all of one mind when it comes to the most important thing in life: family! Although my wife and her coworkers are hard workers, they all believe that the Japanese place too much emphasis on work and not enough on family.

Actually this is true, having been to Japan many times myself. But that is the difference between a world power and a third world country. I hire locals to clean my home in Mexico which I rent out to tourists, and it's amazing, the locals there would rather work 1 day and have 4 off and then after having spent the entire sum of money, scramble to find work again. I tried to keep several different cleaning people busy looking after all my rentals and they told me it was too much work. One guy was making an extra $150 a week for a few hours a day, just off of me, not counting other clients and he would rather have just enough to get by instead of working, saving and investing. Well there you have it, there is no middle class in Mexico they are either dirt poor or filthy rich. Then you have the illegals here who will take all the work they can get, and work their asses off.

[robert angel]

Re:

>>Then you have the illegals here who will take all the work they can get, and work their asses off.<<

If I get up at 5 AM and  drive a ways down the old state highway, I'm bound too see a bunch of Mexican illegals, who regardless of the weather, are standing out there waiting for someone, usually a contractor, to tell them to climb in the bed of his pick up to head off work as day laborers.

Yes, I wish they had papers--that they had 'done it right', but I still have to respect them for wanting to work and their values in supporting their family back home.

I bet my house was mostly built by those guys--a white contractor, who couldn't speak Spanish, running a Mexican crew that couldn't speak English. No wonder my hoome's electrical system is so screwed up, among other issues it has!