I found this guy on Quora who's just your average Mediterranean/South American poster on 4chan, always ashamed of what he isHere are some of his posts>Why do Spanish people add stuff to the end of English words and then that’s their version in Spanish or just pronounce the word differently but spell it the same or add accents?>Spanish people don't “add stuff” to English words, English people copied Spanish words, our words came before yours. You copied Latin words because you liked sounding Latin, because you associated Latin with education, and because you wanted to sound like your fancy Norman rulers. That Latin was, and is, Spanish.>“Sociable” is the same in Spanish but pronounced differently, but that is because you copied us (Romance), not because we added a pronunciation to yours.>Why do Irish have Southern European temperament?The Irish are wrongly located, as a Spaniard I feel they should be an island in the Mediterranean, they are Catholic, they are politically close to Latin countries historically (mostly Spain and France, but also Latin Americans) and they have a bad relation with the British historically. Even when the crisis hit, Ireland was included in the infamous PIIGS along with Portugal, Italy, (Ireland), Greece and Spain (thus PIIGS).
>What country outside of Spain do Spaniards feel closer to?>The French like Spaniards, my experience is that the French appreciate Spaniards, very seldomly hate us, and in plenty of cases even fetishise us. French culture historically appreciates Spanish culture, it's not a new thing… while most of northern Europe acted above the south, it was France drinking from southern cultures (and by extension making our stuff “refined" for northerners, by virtue of becoming French).>Berets? Dirty farmer's hats from the Pyrenees until a Parisian guy liked it, then all of northern Europe thinks it's so elegant and French. Spanish mudéjar architecture? So un-European, until the French started building stuff with it in Paris, then all of northern Europe was “wow this is so exotic". Bullfighting? So bruit, then the French started appreciating the aesthetics of it, and all of northern Europe thought it was so daring and passionate. Spanish Golden Age revivalist fashion? It's was dark and conservative, but Balenciaga moved to Paris with its fashion appreciated by the French, northerners were saying “this is edge-cutting fashion"…>The point is the French like Spaniards, they don't take us seriously, it is a somewhat paternalist way of liking us, but they like us, on all fronts. Pretty undeservingly, for the average French person we are cool, we are nice, we are hot, we are fun, we are artistic, we have good food, we are the best playing sports, our accent sounds cute… definitely our most appreciative neighbours are the French.>But we don't like the French, we find them arrigant, cold, pretentious, paternalistic (this one is 100% true), cheating… their character just isn't our cup of tea. Many Spaniards admire France, it should be said, many Spaniards likr France too, and many who get to know the French actually enjoy them. But in general we are not fond of them in the same way they are of us, it's not that we hate them, we just don't click.
>Why did Spanish food never become as popular internationally as French or Italian food?>Spain has never been on the US spotlight like Italy or France due to a very typically Anglosaxon perception of Spanish culture as inferior. Even Spanish names like Isabel are imported into English as Italian “Isabella”; they avoided anything Spanish for centuries… the same happened with Spanish cultural products since forever, rebranded as Italian or French into English; for example the Spanish play Don Juan is completely ignored in Britain, but the Italian version of the Spanish play called “Don Giovanni” is not interestingly. The only piece they could not stop was Don Quixote although they took 5 years more than France to translate the book, Britons read it in French so they translated it eventually. Velázquez is absolutely ignored by pop Anglosaxon culture, unlike the Italian Da Vinci or the French Monet, why? Because he was Spanish. The only Spanish artist with popular reach in Britain is Picasso (if they even know he was Spanish) because Picasso migrated to France, otherwise he would have remained ignored by Anglosaxon pop culture. Spanish culture is always perceived as inferior to the other two in Britain, the UN ranks Spain culturally ahead of France and barely behind of Italy, 2nd on the planet tied with China for your info. But Spain never received any recognition close to that in Anglosaxon cultures. If you ask any Frenchman or Italian themselves about Spanish culture they will hold it in a ridiculously much higher esteem than Anglos. To give an example, in the Louvre's ceiling there are the names of Velázquez or Murillo written along with 3 more Spanish Baroque artists and the 5 best Italian Renaissance artists, Anglos ignore who one earth is Murillo and barely know Velázquez.
>Is Iberian Latina? I recently took a DNA test and I got 6% Iberian, and I’m confused if it’s Hispanic or White?>Hispanic is not a race, it is a cultural-linguistic clamp that covers all those whose culture was derived from Spain's.>Among Hispanics you will find all sorts of races, my blond sister and blond father are Hispanic, I am “white” with dark hair and Hispanic too, I have an Asian friend who is Hispanic, a north African-descended friend who is Hisanic, a Peruvian friend mostly native American who is Hispanic.>What do Mediterranean people (Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese, Greeks, etc.) think of Nordic people?>Blond and pale, which is somewhat exotic for us since blondness is common here but a minority>Is Spain the only country in Europe to be mostly brown instead of white?>I am Spanish, all my family is as far as I can trace back. According to pantone the shades of my skin are in a range between golden fleece and shortbread.>Are Southern Spanish people from Andalucía genetically closer to the French or to Moroccans?>ALL Spaniards are closer to the French than to Moroccans, in fact, apart from the Portuguese the French are the closest to us genetically anywhere in the world. No country on the planet is closer genetically to Iberians than France, let alone Morocco.>Andalusians are closer to Britain than to Morocco and with France there is no comparison.
trvthbombs all of them
>>205858457Quora is full of nationalist schizos, they get worse the poorer the nation is
>Has Italian been heavily influenced by another language family (like French with Germanic, Romanian with Slavic, Spanish with Arabic)?Spanish has not been “heavily influenced” by Arabic.>Spanish has quite a few Arabic loanwords, around 8% of the dictionary, of which most words are barely used, much in the same manner that “perambulate” is barely used in English. Certainly comparing Arabic in Spanish to Slavic and Germanic influence in Romanian and French is flat out wrong. Germanic influence in French reaches even some minor grammar points, like the verbal double negation. And Slavic in Romanian was almost like Latin in English before the 19th century.>This is not comparable with Arabic in Spanish, despite this one being very pop-culture known. Meanwhile you are neglecting Gothic influence in Spanish and Italian, not as much as Arabic in Spanish, but certainly not that far behind to be ignored entirely. Italian also has a certain influence from other Germanic languages, not as much as French either, but arguably more than Arabic in Spanish.
>>205858457i am not reading all that shit but if my compadre >>205858584 says it's the truth, it's the goddamn truth
>What makes France not belong to Mediterranean nations, like Italy and Spain?>France IS Mediterranean. France has Latin Mediterranean culture, Latin Mediterranean language, Mediterranean cuisine, perhaps not typically Mediterranean lifestyle but a very similar one…>The problem is power is always linked to north-western Europe by the several racial prejudices of the last centuries, so France being a traditional powerhouse cannot be Mediterranean in the eyes of those people who believe north and west are synonimous of power. Nevermind that 3 out of the 5 most powerful nations in Europe (Spain, Italy and France) are located in the Mediterranean. France is the purest idea of Europe in the eyes of the world, when you think of Europe you most likely think of France so linking France to the Mediterranean kind of contradicts agains those ethnic prejudices of Europe, France is purly European so it has to be purely proper European not tanned Mediterranean.>Of course those are absurd prejudices both from outside Europe or from nordic supremacists who need to claim France for the north, but I always say if France was powerless they would all be calling it southern because culturally and historically France is linked to Latin and Mediterranean culture and people.
>>205858632chile mejor pais de chile
>>205858643>France has always emulated Italy and Spain culturally (and Italy and Spain France as well) even in French literature which imitated Italian poetry examples like La Pléaide or imitating Spanish theatre with the French opera Don Quichotte or the French play Dom Juan or Le Burleur de Seville, even with Spanish Paso Doble with the very famous French piece La Malagueña. Lots of Italian architecture as well all over France…>There are Mediterranean games in which France takes part, the last ones celebrated this summer in Tarragona in Spain; there was a Latin Union last century in which France took part along wih Spain, Italy and Portugal although it became kind of useless with the EU.>It is true that France is not as typically Mediterranean as Spain, Italy or Greece, it is colder, with different lifestyle… but it is fully Latin and Latin culture is forcebly linked to the Med. But it is not included for the same reason many people insist on calling French a half Germanic language or pretending the Germanic Frankish tribe basically repopulated Gaul replacing the Latins there… because some people in Europe like to pretend France is proper northern European and some non-Europeans associate Europe with France symbolically, and Europe with Nordic too so France can't be Mediterranean.
This face strikes terror directly into the heart of every medjeet
>>205858584The trvke is real
>>205858732Fag Fagernes is despised and mocked here.
>>205858457>always ashamed of what he isIsn't he like the total opposite of that? He seems like a Spanish nationalist but most of the things he says make sense
>>205858774>SAAR I KNOW 10 MILLION BLONDERINOS, btw your country is med
>>205858749Correct.
>>205858485>The French like Spaniards, my experience is that the French appreciate Spaniards, very seldomly hate us, and in plenty of cases even fetishise us. French culture historically appreciates Spanish culture, it's not a new thing… while most of northern Europe acted above the south, it was France drinking from southern cultures (and by extension making our stuff “refined" for northerners, by virtue of becoming French).>Berets? Dirty farmer's hats from the Pyrenees until a Parisian guy liked it, then all of northern Europe thinks it's so elegant and French. Spanish mudéjar architecture? So un-European, until the French started building stuff with it in Paris, then all of northern Europe was “wow this is so exotic". Bullfighting? So bruit, then the French started appreciating the aesthetics of it, and all of northern Europe thought it was so daring and passionate. Spanish Golden Age revivalist fashion? It's was dark and conservative, but Balenciaga moved to Paris with its fashion appreciated by the French, northerners were saying “this is edge-cutting fashion"…
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>>205858973We like Italians, we don't care about Spaniards
>>205859131Well, refute his pointsHint: You can'tSpaniard rocked gabachoid shocked
we like both spaniards and frenchies :3
>>205859256>very seldomly hate usSpanish men are caricatured as mechanics called Manolo and Spanish women as maids called Conchita>BeretsComes from Béarn and Pays basque>Spanish mudéjar architectureDon't know what he talks about, looks like some Arabian shit>Bullfighting?Everybody hates that>Spanish Golden Age revivalist fashionNo idea
>>205859543>Comes from Béarn and Pays basqueIt originated in Aragon, Navarre and Pais Vasco>Spanish men are caricatured as mechanics called Manolo and Spanish women as maids called ConchitaJealousy
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>>205859631>It is not clear who invented the beret. Sculptures from the Middle Ages attest to the presence in the Pyrenees of a headgear very similar to the beret, notably at the church of Notre-Dame de Bellocq (Pyrénées-Atlantiques).
>>205858524>Anglos ignore who one earth is Murillo and barely know VelázquezFunny, as there's a building in my city with reliefs of famous artists and both of those men appear (along with Titian, Raphael, Turner, various pre-Raphaelites and Dutchmen, etc)
>>205859769>It is not clear who invented the beret. Sculptures from the Middle Ages attest to the presence in the Pyrenees of a headgear very similar to the beretI choose to believe we did itMy culture is not your costume
Isn't it funny that the german flag spaming spain threads disappeared and this one appeared after it?
>>205859847Cope
>>205860003I must be Mexican
>>205858584This even though I didn't read any of it
Tl:drFrance suck and the most obscurantist and darkest hour of our history started in year 1699. Holy Roman Empire influences via Trastamara-Habsbourg alliance were like fresh air of wisdom and strenght.Frenchfluences were like smell of rotten fish mixed with pajeet poo.Nothing good ever came from north Pyrenees.
you don't get to claim "but da anglos stole it oh algorithms" when posting on an anglophone website
>>205860700Franck Ribéry had an accident when he was young
>>205858732kek this>>205860003i don't care about you at alli care about thirdies who don't know their placeyou are mere slaves of the italians
>>205860978Take Bourbons with you>>205861165How so? Italians have been historically hostile towards papacy. To them it was an obstacle at their unification.
>>205861222the entire history of iberia is either being controlled (and inseminated by) muslims, controlled by italians (rome/catholics) or controlled by germans
>>205861316I speak German to my dog
>>205858457having two last names makes you behave like that
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>>205858457I don't know why you're obsessing over what some random schizo thinks
