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carlaerosie:

small cultural & Colombia related details from Encanto 🇨🇴 (part 4)

Vélez Santander trajes típicos – the dress that Mirabel wears is a traditional dress from Vélez (town in the Santander department in Colombia)

men wearing the guayabera shirts

drinking coffee at young age

the village was inspired by Barichara – town in the Santander department in Colombia

the acordeones, tambora and the tiple – typical instruments for Colombian music, traditional in Colombia

Agustín saying ¡Miércoles! – the literal meaning is “Wednesday” but in Colombia we use it as a light version of “oh shit” jajajaja

cucharón – HUGE wooden spoon

our habits – eating meals together

the church, the cross, priest and praying – most of Colombians are religious and Catholicism plays a huge role in our culture and daily life

Bruno’s toc toc toc toc tocó madera – tocar madera (knocking on wood) something that we do when we don’t want bad things to happen

I know I’ve said the next part of it would be short but then I decided to rewatch Encanto (for the 182628th time) and wrote down all of the things I was be able to notice about Colombia and my culture and yeah it turned out there is so much more to say and I may do part 5

Once again I want to say that I know that some of those things can also appear in other cultures but please avoid comments like “it’s not Colombian thing it’s [here a country/ethnicity] thing” etc because now we are focusing on the Colombian aspects of the movie plus such comments make me uncomfortable

I would also be grateful if you could avoid commenting about Raya and how you are mad because Disney disrespected your culture and how they only cared about Colombia and not South Asia. I understand you are mad and you have absolutely right to be but please don’t do it under my post