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I don't think that most Americans would confuse Mexicans with Spaniards. By the term "Hispanic" we mean "Spanish-Speaking" not from Spain! �� OK? Perhaps the ". Brown skin" stereotype comes from them tanning really well. I don't really know. It's only a stereotype.
Many Mexicans are confused about their own heritage.
- Germans: efficient, committed to order, discipline and rules, and with a strong sense of citizenship. They used to be very cohesive (as a nation).
- Italians: kickass and bad guys, very dishomogenous people, lawless (because they're not a people), very creative, possess innate sense of taste, luxury, beauty, poetry or any sort of art, everything that is metaphorically sweet and pleasant.
- French: lovers of a big and burdensome form of government, they have very good taste and style very similar to the italians, but they are snobby.
- Spaniards: bullfighting, great dancers, lazy (quite true stereotype), full of passion and spirit.
- Brits: very efficient, they used to be very proud of their country, good businessmen (avid capitalists), loyal to their country, disastrous in creativity, bad looking (due to many factors), easily conformable by the rules.
Yet have produced dozens of world class and worldwide musical talent over the last 50 years, The Beatles, The Stones, The Who, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Queen, David Bowie, The Clash, Deep Purple, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath (Ozzie Osbourne), The Kinks, The Cure, ELO, Yes, Massive Attack, Eurythmics, The Verve, Small Faces, The Police (Sting), Rod Stewart, The Jam, Joy Division, Duran Duran, Moody Blues, Dire Straits Fleetwood Mac, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Stone Roses, Blur, Oasis, Def Leppard, Coldplay, James Blunt, Adele, Lisa Stansfield, Joe Cocker, Tom Jones, The Animals, Radiohead Kate Bush - there is no country in Europe in fact the world that can boast a list like that and in fact I could go on some more if I could be bothered? The British have a worldwide TV and film industry (most UK films get lumped in with Hollywood), from the James Bond Genre, to Harry Potter, It has the BBC, it has also given the world its 'major' sports, it has writers the calibre of Chaucer, Shakespear, Dickens, the Bronte Sisters, Jane Austin, Orwell, Tolkein more recently JK Rowling etc etc etc etc (again I could go on and on). Now I know I have missed out an awful lot but to suggest that the British 'lack creativity' is laughable!
Very true, especially in the southwest. I actually heard someone at my work refer to English as a white language as opposed to Spanish which they must have thought was the language of the Aztecs. People are so stupid. I had to give them a little history lesson on why Mexicans speak Spanish, LOL.
I live in the Southwest. I disagree that this is "very true". I have never heard anyone here describe English as a "White language" in contrast to Spanish especially considering that many of the Spanish speakers in these parts are pretty White looking.
We call English speakers 'Anglo', not 'White'. Maybe you live in a very different part of the Southwest.
I find Italians to speak a lot less with their hands than French and Spanish.
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Italian men are perhaps more "masculine" than French males, thus women fall for them.
Quite the contrary. Here Italians are considered mama's boys who live with their moms until they are 40, and then they move one story below their mamas. Their awful display in the last big f**kup commonly known as WWII doesn't reinforce any masculine ideas.
Meanwhile the French, stubborn, rioting and constantly engaging in war are considered more masculine.
The Spanish school students who attend a year in USA to improve their english language are astonished that many of his fellow american asked them where was located Spain.
Some asked if stood the alongside Spain of Mexico
And in many cases they were States which for centuries they had been of Spain as Texas or California
His thought was that the student in USA study very little of geography and history the world and only they studied very well USA and some countries of english-spoken as England
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I wonder how people do to get enough sleep in spain because apparently everyone sleeps late, stays at work until late and takes no break.
When exactly do you think we go to sleep?
If we're sleep deprived it might not be by much. Recommended minimum is 7 hours, go to sleep at 1AM, wake up at 6 and you're still not missing that much sleep.
Yes, you are fairly right here. Italians tend to have more curly hair aswell and as awhole tend to look "older" comparatively at the same age than spaniards do. Also features such as deep eyeset are more common among them. Compare buffon to casillas or iniesta to pirlo.
Oh well I have seen quite a few Spaniards with curly, black hair too, so I don't know much on that aspect. However they seem as a whole to have narrower facial features than the Italians or Greeks, maybe that what you're equating to the "older" look. This is only my opinion.
I find Italians to speak a lot less with their hands than French and Spanish.
Quite the contrary. Here Italians are considered mama's boys who live with their moms until they are 40, and then they move one story below their mamas. Their awful display in the last big f**kup commonly known as WWII doesn't reinforce any masculine ideas.
Meanwhile the French, stubborn, rioting and constantly engaging in war are considered more masculine.
At least up here.
Oh well as a whole, Latin people (French, Italians, Spanish, Portuguese, etc...) as a whole use a lot of hand gestures when speaking and expressing themselves. They put much more emotion in what they say, making their speech more vibrant. For me it is the Italians who use more hand gestures, but we all differ in the way, we see things.
When exactly do you think we go to sleep?
If we're sleep deprived it might not be by much. Recommended minimum is 7 hours, go to sleep at 1AM, wake up at 6 and you're still not missing that much sleep.
1+7 = 8 for me, so if you wake up at 6 that's only 5 hours of sleep, that can be tiring after a few days.
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