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  • The answer depends on a LOT of things. Most importantly country of origin.

    If you’re from Latin America, most people won’t even notice. Since we already have huge amount of Latin American immigrants, so we are used to it.

    If you’re from a “white” country, it’s very important that you are respectful to the local culture and try to genuinely learn Spanish. This is mostly a problem with tourists instead of immigrants, but most Spaniards hate with passion when foreigners complain about things not being in English/German/french/whatever.

    If you’re from a “black” country, it depends on where you move to. In some parts of Spain you’ll inevitably face a lot of racism. In others, you’ll find groups of people that will try to protect you. But as always, there’s always at least some racists.

    And of course, don’t do crime. But that goes for locals too.

    And I think this is a global advice. But people will instantly judge if you are lazy or hard-working. If you help your local community without asking much in return, people will probably talk about how hard working you are, and even racists will probably say “for being for country X, he’s a nice guy”.








  • Most legislation is not done through petitions like these.

    The EU is composed of tens of countries with very different cultures. And plenty of parties.

    In the US there are only 2 parties. And they mostly vote in favour of whatever their party wants.

    Having multiple parties means that it is very rare for a single party to have 50% of the vote. Which means they have to make agreements constantly. Which is very time consuming.

    Let’s say you have parties ABCDEF. Parties A and B are big, the other small.

    Party A wants to make a law. It either needs help of B, or 2 of the small parties. Parties BC are immediately opposed. So it has to convince D, E or F. D will only support it if they can pass another bill. That other bill is a deal breaker for E and F.

    Now A’s only option are E and F. So if they want to have that bill passed, they’ll have to give E and F whatever they want. Which probably A doesn’t want. So even though A is a big party, it is impossible for them to pass that bill.











  • And what I’m saying is that what you claim I claimed was never claimed by me.

    Since the discussion seems to have derailed let me do a brief summary:

    • Original guy: here are some opinions I have
    • Other guy: your opinions don’t make sense, some of them contradict other ones
    • Me: they don’t contradict at all. It is perfectly coherent to have those opinions.
    • You (correct me if I’m wrong): your opinion is wrong because it seems you’re a contestant for a contrarian contest.