Venezuelan girls
I was just browsing today and came across this website called Road Junkie Travel. It’s got blog posts by travelers from many countries, including Venezuela. You can see the Venezuela page here:
http://www.roadjunky.com/article?c=Venezuela
There was a funny post by a guy named Seb Kennedy about dating Venezuelan girls. Apparently there are special challenges in dating a girl who expects drama, cheating, and general bad behavior from her man. He writes:
Put simply, dating Venezuelans is great if you are after a casual fling or a holiday romance. It’s when you enter into a proper relationship when the problems and cultural differences emerge.
Venezuela is an extremely macho country and girls almost expect their men to treat them badly. They expect them to periodically leave them at home and go out drinking all night with their mates, wind up at a brothel, and come home in a mess the next day. Then they will have an insane shouting match where things get thrown about, she ends up in a huff and he goes out on the piss again. Eventually they will make up, and they will be so in love it will make you sick until the next time he goes out to screw hookers.
When a Venezuelan girl doesn’t get this from her foreign boyfriend she will be very surprised and will either ask to marry you on the spot, or spend months trying to figure out why she isn’t being taken for granted. For some girls, haranguing their boyfriends is their second favourite pastime after gossiping, so they may miss the melodrama when they date a man from a country where women expect to be treated as equals.
For a foreign woman dating a Venezuelan man the relationship works in reverse. He will most likely be unfaithful to her, but will still rely on her to perform all manner of domestic duties. She may even find him turning up unannounced at her house with a huge bag of washing and a shirt missing a couple of buttons. Any attempt to engage in a discussion regarding gender equality will fall on deaf ears and will be dismissed as foreign nonsense.
There is a thriving gay scene in Caracas, catered for by a fair selection of gay bars. If you are lucky, you will find one playing host to a karaoke show featuring drag queens and transsexuals grinding away in enormous spangley stilettos to Madonna classics and “Sobrevivire” – “I Will Survive” in Spanish. It may seem unusual to find a lively gay scene in such a macho country, and although the word “marico” (queer) is a common insult among men and even women, the attitude of straight Venezuelans to homosexuality is typically one of slight amusement or bemused indifference, rather than the jeering ridicule you may expect.
Personally I’ve never dated a Latin American woman, but I have North American friends who have, and one of the complaints I’ve heard consistently is the cavalier attitude of the women toward keeping dates and showing up on time. Of course they expect the same thing from the man, so to me it’s miracle that anyone ever actually gets together. Or maybe they get together just long enough to do the deed, which is perhaps why I see so many single young mothers. In some cases the father drops in from time to time to visit. But I’m getting off track.
Another complaint I’ve heard is that once you get something steady going with a girl, her entire family expects you to underwrite their expenses and fund their business ventures. It seems that you do actually have to lay something out – otherwise what would be the benefit to the girl of dating you? – but you also have to know where to draw the line between being generous and being a sucker.
Have you dated a Venezuelan girl? What was the experience like for you? Share your comments.
I am dating a Venezuelan guy and he is great! We definitely had a high learning curve due to cultural differences but he already knew a lot about US culture since he grew up watching US films and tv shows every day. He “forgets” to do his own dishes sometimes but loves cooking for me and is very reliable. But he’s not a typical Venezolano and I can’t say I would ever date a “typical” Venezolano…
DUDE! The Venezuelan women are the hottest, the sexiest and the mos cariñosas women I’ve ever met! They are so much smarter than american women. Being a european, they were al stunned by how gentelman-like my behavior to them was. I enjoyed goo success dating venezuelan girls. If it wasn’t for the obesity that almost outweights :p the US girls, I would say they’re the most beautiful I’ve seen.
Really, obesity is a problem with Venezuelan girls? Why is that, do you think? It’s not because they are junk food addicted like North Americans.
We don’t have an obesity problem! Actually, what is considered to be “thin” in the US is “fat” here in Venezuela.
I am very offended by that man’s comment: “Put simply, dating Venezuelans is great if you are after a casual fling or a holiday romance.”
Venezuela is a very traditional country, of course you can find not-so-innocent girls like everywhere else but making such generalization shows this man’s ignorance about Venezuelan culture.
I’m writing an article about dates across the world. Is there anything interesting about dating in Venezuela? I hear the people there are amongst the most beautiful in the world (with a record in world beauty pageants). I’ve also learnt that the people there are considered among the happiest in the world.
Where would someone go on an interesting date?
Are there any romantic customs, unique to Venezuela?
I’d appreciate any suggestions or help.
Kind regards.
“Another complaint I’ve heard is that once you get something steady going with a girl, her entire family expects you to underwrite their expenses and fund their business ventures. It seems that you do actually have to lay something out”
You didn’t say how many men made this complaint to you, I am a venezuelan woman and although I would accept that it is nice to be spoil by a man, it is also nice for a woman to spoil her man. It’s give and take mate! I resent the the insinuation made that make us sound like users. But then again a man who has had a bad experience with a woman goes on to generalise (same as women I suppose)
man, that is bull crap, girls are very lovely in general, and guys have a tendency to family oriented.
OK, I am a Gringo but in my prime I spent months traveling and visiting friends in Venezuela. I have been to the highest mountains and to the deep rainforests etc. etc.
Venezuelan women can be very hot and are very approachable and they always like a foreigner if you treat them well.
BUT, and I know I am going to have to listen to the Venezuelans complain but truth is Venezuelans are not that happy en general, not sincere, will stick a knife in your back, will steal money from even a friend and are just generally the least reliable or honest Latinos in my experience.
Date Colombian women, they really love men and if you are a foreigner they will come out in droves for you, hey it is that “New Kind In Town” thing on steroids. See the problem is Latino men have everything their way and pretty much screw anything and everything with little respect for the relationship. All Latina women hear foreigners are nicer and more gentlemen whether that is true or not.
Ok, now I must make a run for the trees before those Fckng Caraquenas start chuckin spears at me. Adios! and remember the Colombian women.
It is true there is an obesity problem in Venezuela. You see a lot of hot girls in the 15-25 range but shortly after that a great many start piling on the weight. This is true for men too. Basically it’s the diet… Arepas are very tasty but very very fattening. The same is true for Polarcitos (bottles of beer which people tend to drink like water). Food tends to be fried rather than baked or grilled. Sugary drinks are everywhere, fast food too. See this article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/15/venezuela-obesity-diet-hugo-chavez
i am Pakistani live in Dubai but i want to marry with Venezuelan girl