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Hey Wintermute, jejejej, ya caught me online (for a change  ) You are very welcome, just offering up my observations. Saludos, jer...
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| Posts: 12232 | Location: ny, u.s.a. --> madrid, spain --> the plaza mayor ! | Registered: 30 June 1998 |  |
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This topic is very interesting and I can speak from the African-American point of view. I was never harrassed in Spain at all. People thought that I was Cuban and that was it. There was one time in a shoe store when the clerk got smart with me, so I returned the attitude and he straightened up and told me to have a nice day. We have to realize that racism is ignorance to the nth degree and that racism exists every where. I agree with Jer about American illegals. I can't be illegal in Spain because of the color of my skin. I know that I would be stopped and that the police would ask for my papers. The legal route is the only way for me because I don't want to go anywhere and feel that I am hiding and dodging the law. Who wants to feel like a criminal and look over their should every minute? Shawn
"Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down" - SONG OF SOLOMON, Toni Morrison
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| Posts: 1255 | Location: Richmond, VA but in MADRID now | Registered: 10 February 2002 | |
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Another minority perspective chipping in here. I am an American with mixed heritage (aren�t we all??)...caucasian (German ancestry) and Filipino. Many people say that I look Latin American if it weren�t for my height (taller than the average Latina  ) I have not had any problem here in Spain. At least none that I have been aware of. I think that I have been modestly successful in my career pursuit here (teaching English) and am respected by my students (high level executives at two multinational companies). As mentioned previously, the racism (classism, sexism, call it what you want) has more to do with how you carry and represent yourself than with the color of your skin. If you act ignorantly, you will be treated as such. If you act with respect you will be treated as such. At least that has been my experience. Madrid is a multinational city and seeing people of other races and ethnicities is not unusual or out of the norm as it might have been 10 or so years ago. I would not let your race, religion or otherwise prevent you from visiting this beautiful country!
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| Posts: 1376 | Location: Madrid | Registered: 24 March 2002 | |
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