Cultural differences and ways of relating vary greatly between countries. Currently, social networks highlight these differences more obviously. Platforms like TikTok and Instagram make it easier to access the experiences of people who have taken a life path similar to ours. In this context, listening to the voices of others can influence our own decisions. But not only that, it can also help increase our ability to understand what others are experiencing and, therefore, surpass our level of empathy.
Mia Wein is a young Argentine who has been living in Spain for a few months. In her TikTok profile, where she tells about her daily life in Barcelona, she accumulates almost 300,000 followers. Thus, among his most popular publications, those that talk about the little things stand out.
“I’m going to tell you something that happened to me that made me realize that I now live in the first world,” the young woman begins by saying in one of her videos. And after this confession, she went on to tell a brief anecdote that took place during a work break. “A girl stops me and tells me: forgive me.”Do you have hours?”. This phrase, according to her, awakened a strange sensation in her and activated hundreds of thoughts.
Thus, this situation is understood when we know what the expression “Do you have time?” means in Argentina. “In Argentina, if they ask you if you have time, what you have to do is run away, because they are going to shoot you because they want to steal your cell phone,” clarifies the young woman, who assures that this is a more frequent experience than she thought. people can imagine.
After a few moments, she realized that she was in the center of Barcelona, so, still a little dazed, she told the time to the other young woman, who left, thanking her. “I think this is the first time they’ve asked me the time and I’ve told it,” Mia says.
After having reported the event, the young woman wanted to share a brief reflection with her followers. “I wanted to do it with humor,” she says. “I love Argentina and they ask me why the hell you left and it’s because that’s not normal. It’s not normal for someone to ask you if you have time and you feel so bad. We do not have to normalize living in so much fear all the time, living locked up, living worried”. For this reason, Mia recognized that she does not want to live like this and that this is one of the reasons why she came to live in Spain, although she emphasizes that there are many more reasons behind her decision.
Mía’s video accumulates hundreds of thousands of views and likes. Furthermore, there are those who have not been able resist sharing your opinion in the comments. “How sweet it seems to me to tell it, the same people who came to that reflection came to that reflection 20 years ago and that makes you think that nothing changed,” writes Eduardo. “And hopefully one day when things are better, you can return home
