Hi,

I just wanted to add my own thoughts to this matter. I think that it depends on where you are in Spain. I spent a year in the east of Castilla La Mancha in a small village of 2,000 people. There I lived with a cuban woman who everybody talked about behind her back and everybody made jokes about her and didn't really like her. Also they were all very racist towards morrocans. So i think that Spain is a racist country but towards certain nations due to the past and the problems that the country experiences.
But when i was in Madrid and in Valencia there was no such comments made and everybody was a lot more open-minded. Also there exist a lot of racism to other regions within Spain but this i see as normal as it exist in the UK as well and is a natural response to the situations in which the regions find themselves.
just my opinion

I have a cousin who lives in Madrid. He has lived in Spain since 1977 and he considers it to be home. His esposa is a madrileña and their son and daughter have been educated in the American (?) School. They speak perfect Castillan and Pittsburghese. No easy feat!

Art told me that Spaniards really don´t like Arabs, especially Moroccans. Since I have yet to make my first trip to Spain, I only know what I have read or been told.

My esposa is Latina (caleña, de Colombia) and again, I have read that the Spanish of Cali is very close to that of Madrid. What I don´t know is how Spaniards view Latin Americans. If anyone can shed some light on this please let me know. We are planning a trip to Spain next year, hopefully to coincide wiht a visit to Normandy when the (most likely) final ceremony commemorating the D-Day invasion will take place. A great uncle fought in that battle and managed to make it home, so I want to see that too, even though it´s a little off-topic.

Sounds like the work of a facha to me?....