I went to college with a Spanish guy, Milo I watched this exchange.
Girl: “What kind of Spanish are you?”
Milo: …
Girl: “You know, like Mexican or Colombian or Puerto Rican?”
Milo “No no, I’m from España”
Girl: “But like, which country did you grow up in?”
Milo: " España…uh Spain"
Girl: …
Me: “There’s a country in Europe called Spain, its the place where spanish originated, like England is where english originated.”
Girl: “Duh”
Me: “That’s where he’s from.”
Girl: *suddenly realizes how dumb this whole exchange has been and dies of embarrassment.
At least she acknowledged it, that’s better than other people in this situation
Yeah, she was a very smart person, IIRC she was studying aeronautical engineering, literally a rocket scientist. Just one of those weird ways that you don’t think about your bias until it smacks you in the face.
I had the opposite argument with one Indian guy when I was living in the UK.
He was saying what people speak in countries like Mexico, Argentina, etc. cannot be called Spanish because they are not from Spain and instead they speak Mexican, Argentinian…
I told him what they speak in those countries is still Spanish the same way that what they speak in the US is English even when they are not in England. He replied that what they speak in America is not English either but American instead.
Then I realized how stubborn he was in his wrongness and just gave up.En España se habla español.
Sounds better that way.
This is a troll, it’s not possible otherwise
No, can confirm there are far too many people this ignorant. I work with a good number of them. I’m in North Georgia, and some of these people literally can’t find themselves on a map of the United States and believe the English folks stole English from the Americans…
That’s just crazy to me. Remembers me one time I was in Canada, and we were visiting a museum with First Nation People depicted.
A woman I was with asked me “So, do you also have First Nations in Europe?”
Well…
We have the Sami in Sweden/Norway/Finland/Russia.
They where treated like shit here as well… not genocide bad, but forcefull eradication of culture/language/religion during the 20th century bad.
They where treated like shit here as well… not genocide bad, but forcefull eradication of culture/language/religion during the 20th century bad.
Yup, Sweden drank the “race biology” kool aid.
Did a lot of nasty shit to mentally disabled people too, like giving them super sticky candy to study the effects of sugar on tooth decay.
Port O’ Rico
It’s the perfect joke. I love it.
And then there’s the sequel:
Costo Rico
Lol, I read that as Costco Rico
Spain is called Špania in my language lol
People in Spain don’t speak Spanish, they speak Mexicanish.
Well to be fair: Some regions in Spain really like to prefer to call it “Castellano”.
Yes, because there are multiple Romance languages spoken in Spain, and they’re all “Spanish” to people who live there. Castellano is the one spoken in Madrid, so it’s what the rest of the world thinks of as Spanish, kind of like how Mandarin is often referred to as Chinese even though other dialects are equally Chinese.
