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Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetI believe a very important reason for Obama’s success is that he does not carry the psychological baggage of the typical African American. He was born of a white mother and an African father and did not experience the systematic discrimination that still is part of the African American culture, especially among the lower middle class. For this reason he does not prosyletize or harbour any resentment towards whites but clearly views himself as any white man’s equal. It is this very measured, intelligent, reasoned and above all unemotional stance that kept him from scaring off the middle class white voter. However, while I would like to believe his election was a result of greater tolerance and respect for African Americans, I think it will only make a small dent in discriminarory stereotyping which I still hear plenty of in the U.S.
While I can’t speak for Spain in particular, Europe does not have the same long history of slavery and discrimination that the U.S. has with respect to Africans. And more importantly the immigrants in Europe are more recent and have a stronger identity which should help them in their quest to be treated as equals in European countries. On the other hand, Europeans are as a general rule very nationalistic and it will be very hard for any “other” to be accepted in a leadership position. In sum, while in the US there is more talk of tolerance in democratic ideals, and more examples of exceptional individuals who broke the barrier, than in Europe, the immigrants in Europe don’t have to “get out of their own way” and are not as accepting of their lot in life the way many African Americans are.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | Tweetmartin,
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Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetWhen I left my job at a big investment bank two years ago, it was just the catalyst to shed the incredible number of print subscriptions I had accumulated over the years (and up the hierarchy!) I thought about re-subscribing but inertia and a sabbatical gave me time to realize that I didn’t miss them and that I got all the day-to-day information I needed (more actually) from my feed-reader (netvibes) and didn’t even miss Bloomberg 99% of the time (thanks to Google Finance etc.)
However, the one area where I remain a fervent print subscriber (and hybrid print/online consumer) is in magazines. The Economist which is a highlight of my week when it arrives on Friday, Fortune (to stay on top of US zeitgeist) and more irregularly (usually having seen an interesting article online) publications like Prospect, Scientific American, Forbes, etc…
I like the UI of magazines and hope they stick around for awhile. At least until I get comfortable with the idea of a Kindle…
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Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetAndres,
I do not think as rigorous considering the nationalities we have in Spain as a way to explain why demographic and cultural distribution can be considered comparable to that in the US1) We have been a very homogeneous country in the last 4 to 5 centuries in many senses (you know which ones, I am not going to detail them to go on with a discussion based on specificities).
2) Although the Kingdom of Spain (as well as Spain as a Nation) is not considered as such until 18th century, the homogeneity of the country has more to do with processes (that as you know) took place 2 to 3 centuries before.
All in all, it is prudent to say that any country that has been living under certain “stable” (in the sense of unchanged) demographic, social, religious, political conditions during quite a long period has to “digest” again what are considered to be significant changes in its social, religious,….composition. 11% of the population has come to the country during the last 5 to 10 years.
Catalans, Basques or Galicians although if considered part of different nations are basically very similar in many aspects to Castilians or Andalusians which is not the case with a Rumanian or an Ecuatorian. Needless to say that this is not racist, this calls more for time and patience….”Rome was not built in a day”
P.S.: Martin, I agree with you Aznar was a great President for Spain during the first 6 years, but a Little arrogant Napoleon in the last two (which is a shame for as Spaniards, as he supported that horrible invasion of Irak and the posterior massacre there).
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetMartin,
I would disagree slightly: as ill-intentioned as Mr Aznar can be, he actually had ideas of his own (that’s too much to ask for GWB). Whether the Spaniards were judge properly whether Aznar’s state vision was fit to where the country really was… that’s something else.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetYes we did. His name is Jose Maria Aznar.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetGreat article and full of useful information. I think the environment in the UK is much better suited for US entrepreneurs. Out of curiosity, could you run a business in let’s say Spain while being registered in the UK? You’d be regulated by UK laws and taxes, what are the drawbacks, which I am sure are many? You could have a small HQ in the UK, and maybe a bigger office for R&D in other european country.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetGuillermo,
a) Few areas in the Old World have been and are as multicultural and multinational as the Iberian peninsula. Geographically it’s a crossroads between Europe and Africa, between the Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean area. Historically, Iberia has been the Balkans of Western Europe.
Today, Spain *is* multinational. Catalans and Basques *are* nationalities.
b) Political union was a really lousy excuse, if it was an excuse at all. Political union in Spain was only achieved in the second decade of the 1700s, after a civil war and a change of dinasty. Under the Habsburg all the Spanish territories in the Iberian peninsula retained all their political institutions.
c) Spain was once actually a rich country in terms of natural resources. The thing is that everyone that has come here has been able to use and abuse them, even before the Romans arrived. By kicking out all Jews and Muslims, Spain simply shot itself in the knee by expelling a big deal of its human capital, the urban and economic fabric of a potentially powerful metropolis. What did remain? A handful of bureaucrats/members of the court and a mass of peasants.
After that, the exploration and exploitation of the New World had to be financed by big wealths in Central Europe. Although the Castilian Empire was able to claim the rights over most of America, all the benefits were reaped by someone else.d) Remember to use your words wisely: “Muslim” and “Arab” mean *really* different things.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetMartin, I admire you as a successful entrepreneur, but not because of that your opinions are accurate or rigorous in any matter. Please contrast them. I have found lots of inaccurate statements.
1) As I told before, USA or Argentina have had this multicultural and multinational demographic distribution for a long time.
2) Process of expulsion or Arabs and Jewish, although a mistake as you state, it was a generalized process in Europe, to achieve political union.
3) Spain was a poor country in resources before and after Arabs and Jews leave it.All in all, your comparison and judgment of Spanish Society is not fair and does not rightly reflect the reality in a country in the initial stage as an immigrants receiver country.
Please compare it with Argentina in the 1930s or with other countries at the same stage.
This is a back-ended analysis the one that you do.
With all my respect,
Guillermo
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetInmigration process in Spain is very recent. This is not an apples to apples fair comparison.
Please tell us how is the integration of the different inmigrants in Argentina when they first arrived? Tell us about the “Gallegos” (Spaniards) or the people from Southern Italy. USA was in its origin a multinational country, Spain has been not until very recently.
Argentineans are very racist towards indigenous people from Paraguay, Chile, etc…
Please be more balanced, Argentina is not a role model in this matter and unfortunately not in others.
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Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetAriben, There is no novelty in Zapatero not speaking English. Nor did Aznar when he was Prime Minister, nor did Felipe González. If you consider the basis of ignorance to be a lack of knowledge of the English language, you are implying that the vast majority of the Spanish population are ignorant.
Very few people in Spain, and I mean very few indeed, have a credible knowledge of English. I have worked here for eight years among highly educated Spaniards and I struggle to count on more than one hand those that were capable of having a serious analytical discussion or writing intelligible business English. Many of those considered in Spain to have an Upper Intermediate level can barely communicate.
This is a problem with the education system, a legacy of Spain’s past fascist dictatorship in which all languages other than Castillian Spanish were prohibited, and a consequence of the shortage of teachers with the necessary qualifications and ability to pass the language on. So if you accuse Zapatero of being an idiot, try to use other arguments to defend your case rather than focussing on the fact that he has a similar linguistic ability to most of the people who elected him.
Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetFrance has his Obama, its Sarkozy. I am disgusted and ashamed of letting my country being led by such an ignorant (he does not even speak english) and useless person such as Zapatero. I count the days eagerly for the end of his second term.
But, what is worse, is Rajoy supposed to be our ‘Sarkozy?’
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Reply | Original | Permalink | Share | TweetMartin,
Yes, I agree that newspapers will fade fast and then remain there for a good long time.
My current model for the future of newspapers is a free daily edition distributed in public places (mass transit, coffee shops) and supported by advertising.
On the weekends, however, there is a premium value newspaper that is more magazine-like and glossy. This one costs five or six dollars and people buy it to read in leisure.
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