You're going to south america on short notice, a place you're not familiar with. what can you do to learn from and adapt to the situation?

You can research about the local culture and check the experience that people from your country had there

Explanation:

If you manage to talk to someone has been in the country that you're going to (or at least if you're able to hear about their experience there), you might create already a really good idea on how to behave and how not to, since they'll most likely know the sort of cultural habits that you'd have to avoid in order to get along there and also the main things that you'd have to understand to be able to navigate their society

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