Chile Forum

Me thinks it's just admin and his way of poking the stick to stoke the forum fires (activity).

SeNor Gringo wrote:

admin wrote:It is much safer for a women to travel alone in Chile than in the United States. In fact, I would not recommend anyone travel alone in the States.

That's a pretty loaded statement. If you're talking about South Central LA or downtown Detroit, than yeah. You can't really make a blanket statement like "The US is safe" or the "The US is not safe" because the US is incredibly diverse by region, and that includes crime. It TOTALLY depends on the city, region, state, etc.

Both Chile and China start with the Old English letter "Chi" (and RWS will correct me, if I'm wrong). Hence, admin's statement is right.

I call this "logic" -- "the Science of Reasoning". So simple.

Have you been to China, SeNor Gringo?..

awesome thanks to everyone who posted replies! greatly appreciate it. i've been internet-less for a little bit and finally saw all the replies! looking forward to packing all my weekends with some sort of traveling/hiking

As a woman who is not alone in Chile, but frequently traversed the streets and avenues of Santiago, Osorno, Temuco, Valdivia, and places south, and having 6 years of experiences living in Costa Rica and Panama, I have to say that I have never felt safer walking alone and wandering around than in Chile. Crime is everywhere...the cliche...but the experiences I have had here are far more comfortable and safe-feeling than back in my home country where there are home-invasions and drug-store robberies and much more personal-physical crimes than here. I would not walk ANYWHERE in San Jose, Costa Rica, or Panama City, Panama at night, with, or without someone. But, there are also places in Santiago I would not prance or crawl through in the middle of the night. Some things - anyplace - would be unwise. A wise woman anywhere in the world is a woman who takes reasoned precautions, yet is not unreasonably cautious.

RuneTheChookcha wrote:

SeNor Gringo wrote:

admin wrote:It is much safer for a women to travel alone in Chile than in the United States. In fact, I would not recommend anyone travel alone in the States.

That's a pretty loaded statement. If you're talking about South Central LA or downtown Detroit, than yeah. You can't really make a blanket statement like "The US is safe" or the "The US is not safe" because the US is incredibly diverse by region, and that includes crime. It TOTALLY depends on the city, region, state, etc.

Both Chile and China start with the Old English letter "Chi" (and RWS will correct me, if I'm wrong). Hence, admin's statement is right.

I call this "logic" -- "the Science of Reasoning". So simple.

Have you been to China, SeNor Gringo?..

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No I have not been to China, and I have no idea what you're talking about.

I have been to China. Spent a year in Nanjing. Hands down the safest country crime wise, although you are more likly to die from just breathing the air. There is not really anything like crime in China. The last guy that robbed a tourist in China got put to death. The other thing with China is you are never really alone on the street. At 3 a.m. there is only 10,000 people per square mile vs 50,000 people during the day.

As for my blanket statement, I more or less will hold to that. Crime in the States is just all round more violent and frequent. Yea, if you are in some rural town in the Midwest, chances are it is fairly safe to walk the streets at night. For the rest of the country, ....

SeNor Gringo wrote:

RuneTheChookcha wrote:Both Chile and China start with the Old English letter "Chi" (and RWS will correct me, if I'm wrong). Hence, admin's statement is right.
I call this "logic" -- "the Science of Reasoning". So simple.
Have you been to China, SeNor Gringo?..

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No I have not been to China, and I have no idea what you're talking about.

It's clear as day to me. Stick around a few months, S.G., and you, too, will understand.

depends how you go about your travels. if you stay on A travellers path satying in hostels with other travellers etc going to famous landmarks it is secure. the thing is generally latins hate gringos, its as simple as that. it is just luck of the draw, which the same goes anywhere obviouslly.

latin hate gingos? first time i heard about it. most of the time is the opposite, rednecks hating latins-

btw: the girl is asian, no gringa.

estrellamanthey wrote:depends how you go about your travels. if you stay on A travellers path satying in hostels with other travellers etc going to famous landmarks it is secure. the thing is generally latins hate gringos, its as simple as that. it is just luck of the draw, which the same goes anywhere obviouslly.

FAIL xD

Real State wrote:. . . . most of the time is the opposite, rednecks hating latins- . . . .

Not from what I see. There is, of course, a revulsion against illegal immigrants, the vast majority of whom in the States have for decades been Mexicans (Chinese now coming up fast) and other Latin Americans, but that's more (I think) for the dishonesty of crashing the party than for being different in other ways.

Quite a long time ago, a good friend of mine (born in Peru and subsequently emigrating to the US where he obtained a EE degree and an MBA) was chiding me about not having become a naturalized citizen of the US after having lived 20 plus years in the US. He was a proud naturalized US citizen who had done the 'right' thing by applying for citizenship as soon as he was eligible (5 years after he arrived). In response to his chiding, I said that it wasn't necessary for me to become natualized as I was aready fully assimilated and accepted into US society but that he might never achieve that status because of his skin colour and latino accent. Being from an upper middle class background, he politely chuckled at this absurdity on my part and quickly changed the subject.
The moral of the story: A light skinned non-citizen has a better chance of successfully assimilating into US society than a darker skinned naturalized citizen with a latino accent.