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6 degrees of separationThis forum post is dated 04/28/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it.
| 6 degrees of separation I read this blog today and found his perspective interesting...After Suriname, Uruguay is the second smallest country in South America with only 3, 5 million and a great number of those live in Montevideo€“, the capital. I heard that every two people in Montevideo has a common friend! The theory of "€œ6-degrees of seperation" is false in Montevideo, where it is supposed to be 2 instead of 6! In a short time even I (the foreigner!) have a circle of friends. I met many people during several Couch Surfing meetings I attended and already on the streets I heard people calling my name! It really is a small and lovely city." Do you think Montevideo is really that small? Does everyone know everyone? |
| "Not so small, but netted."
Montevideo is not that small. However, friendship/family nets are wide spread. There's a lot of social activity under the surface, and people comment a lot about themselves and other people, so the net just grows. Another factor is that movility is not as important as in other places. Families and friends in Montevideo don't move around through the country as is common in other countries. They may move to other neighbourhoods in the city, but that is always no more than 30 minutes far. So friendships frequently last during your whole life. The only probable disruption in a montevidean relationship is emigration. However, after many years of steady blooding of people, that also seems to be reducing. |
| "Making Friends"
Shortly after I moved here, I was surprised when a Uruguayan asked me how people make friends in the US. I thought, Well, just like anywhere else, right? They meet people at work, at church, at their kids' school events, at gyms, taking classes, joining groups of mutual interest, in neighborhood shops, etc, etc. Later on it dawned on me where he was coming from -- Uruguayans don't really need to make friends as adults; most of them already have an enormous network of friends from their grade school days and from their extended families, most of whom still live nearby and are still friends. They aren't used to the idea of moving to a place where they know no one, and starting from scratch to form a new social network, something that a lot of people in the US take for granted. (Even people who never move away from their hometown must do it to some extent, because so many of their friends will move away.) |
| "Amigos -"
If I'm going back after 41 years to my old Neighborhood in Montevideo I will find friends or people that know me and they will remember my Mother and Brother.In my 41 years in the USA, I don't think that if I'm going back to any of the Neighborhood that I lived before (maybe only Levittown Long Island) that we will find the same neighbours. When you are raising your kids and they play Sports you get to meet a lot of people, most of them after the kids grow up they are gone. Church and Work are probably the most comun way to create friendships in the USA. Uruguay is very unique in that respect and I lost that NEST and probably I will feel like an outsider when I go back. Friendship is nothing to take lightly it takes years to develop and you need to be present. That is why when you leave your Country you don't only miss your family you also miss your friends. |
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