For the most part you can ask anyone anything you don't know and they'll try and help you figure it out. People tend to be curious about us, ask where we're from, what we're doing here, what we think of it all, etc.
Occasionally though, people are kind of stand-offish and cold.
On one hand, we're invading their space and so i'm willing to have a little humility about it.
But on the other hand, we're really careful to be respectful of how Bolivians do things, and peoples' attitudes towards us are occasionally sort of demeaning or antagonistic in situations where we probably haven't done much to deserve it.
Not the end of the world, but still a really alienating experience.
This made me think a lot about the way i've seen people in medicine hat, alberta,(and many other places in canada) act really standoffish towards mexicans, or south/central americans, or africans. Or, of course, first nations people. There's this cliquishness and sense of implicit superiority that i find really juvenile and disgusting. And i think Canadians do this a lot more than Bolivians do. I hope we can eventually grow up a little bit and learn to appreciate each other.
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