Best English Podcast - First name basis and Living by oneself - Brazilian Cultural Aspects IV

Hello everyone. I bring the latest episode of the series of Brazilian Cultural Aspects. I hope you are enjoying the series and becoming more interested in getting to know Brazilian culture. Hi everyone, and welcome to the Best English Podcast by Teacher Bruno Gon. Today’s episode brings other two aspects of Brazilian culture. Here, I will tell you how we handle these two aspects. First aspect is: Living by oneself Unlike what goes on in the US where people leave their parents' house when they go to college, in Brazil the tradition for lack of a better word, is different. Most college and university students who are around 18 years old live with their parents. The reason besides a cultural aspect is that many teens at this age don’t work or are trainees with low salaries, which is not enough to rent an apartment or a studio. Families who have a better financial life, provide this financial support so their sons and daughters don’t need to work. It is a generic sensation of making them busy with their studies only, like they don’t need to work now. It is relatively common that first registered jobs start at around 23 years old for most brazilians. First because what I narrated before, second because companies take advantage of them being in college to hire these young adults as trainees for lower costs. All these aspects combined, make young adults continue to live with their parents. So, you might be asking yourself, when do Brazilians leave home? Culturally, we leave our parents’ home when we get married. Despite this cultural aspect, the number of Brazilians who are leaving their parents’ home before marriage has been increasing. Boyfriends and girlfriends are choosing to move in together, similar to what is already part of US culture. Others are choosing on their free will to move out of their parents’ home just because. Usually, many parents are not happy about it, but they end up accepting it. In general, Brazilian families are very protective and present in their sons and daughters lives even after they leave home. For our second costume today: first name basis.  If you are not Brazilian, this is strange. it is extremely common in Brazil to use only the first name to call people, no matter how intimate you are with the person. You may be the new guy at school, work or any place. You are introduced by your first name and it is pretty common to be only this. Unlike the US and Euroupe for example, there is no social need to use last names or complete names so often in Brazil. Let’s look at some scenarios. If you are a kid and you make a new friend and he takes you home, you will call your friends’ parents as “uncle” and “aunt” + their first names. Believe it or not, this custom is used in many workplaces to call cleaning professionals. This uncle and aunt is used by many students in their first years at school to call their teachers. When students in Brazil get to middle school and high school, they call their teachers as teachers or by their first names. College and university are the same. Unlike the US and Europe, you refer to them as Mr or Mrs + last name. For example, at the school I work at today, I have many workmates and I call every one of them by their first names, without exception, even my principal. Last names are less common. If there is no need to know them, you don’t really care about knowing them.  By that, we close this episode of Brazilian Cultural habits. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate it 5 stars, forward to friends and hit the button for further notifications. If you wanna get in touch with me, follow me on instagram @bestenglish.br and on LinkedIn Teacher Bruno Gon. Thank you.