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However I employ a new techiques for those textbooks I must buy....I write my own conservative comments and actual facts in the margains..for the next student
Consider the school and who selected the work book. Perhaps you should look into learning the language without the brain washing.
On the other hand, perhaps its a valid survey, I would try to find out who was interviewed. Was it latinos in this country or Spaniards from Spain?
Just use this as an experience about the opinion of the authors and expect more of the same in later chapters.
They are doing you a favor Hildy. Of course Americans are stupid, immoral, cheap and materialistic. I know that after being sheltered from the Truth during your earlier school days, the Truth can be shocking, but it's all part of growing up.
Just be thankful you aren't studying French!! :)
Folks in Northern and Western Europe have a favorite saying about Spain anyway ~ it goes "African begins at the Pyranees", the implication being that Spain and Portugual have much more in common with Africa than with Europe.
Americans have a different opinion of Spain, Spaniards and other Spanish speaking people ~ for one thing we tend to differentiate among them ~ for Europeans they are considered all the same thing.
BTW, don't you live in formerly Mexican territory anyway?
Yes. It probably is a true reflection of what Spaniards think. Not they they are correct by any means.
Are you in a class with other students? Maybe you could bring this up, in a polite way.
48,9% of Spanish people think Americans are superior, that's a step in the right direction. LOL
"Viva La Migra!"
One might wonder why so many people would be trying to reach a land they think so poorly of...?
The press in Spain, as in all of Europe, is not kind to the U.S. The Spaniards read and listen to a lot of news, but all of their sources give them the same negative view of us. So, it is not surprising that that is their opinion.
Add to that the fact that the Spaniards, French, Germans, Dutch, etc., all think that their country is superior to the other European countries, and FAR superior to the U.S., and you have an audience ready to hear and believe the worst about us.
It's probably a realistic survey. I wouldn't be too concerned about it.
How do you get opinions of Americans versus just others?
Burn an old phone book. Put ashes in a paper bag. Hand them to the 'professor' with your notice of withdrawal from his class.
Although I live in Barcelona so I speak spaniard spanish you can count with my help if ever need.
Unfortunately every country speaks a different spanish so you can't learn a general one. Anyway we understand each other quite well unless you talk to someone with a very very low education level.
You only have to be careful about those words that in one country mean something normal and in others are offensive or sexual. "coger" is the most usual example, in Spain means "take" and nothing else ("coger el autobus") but in latin america it means... well, you already know what it means... obviously mexicans LOL when a spaniard says the sentence of the bus... there are dozens of things like this...