Spanish people in Lat Am

[Simon]

I was going through some old Notes in Spanish on a plane today. There was a question to Ben and Marina about how Spanish people were treated in Latin America.

I've just been in Mexico City for a couple of days.
I was on a bus outside a hotel waiting for some other people, while the driver was getting a bit cross (the people were late). A car driver wanted to get by us, and the driver was trying to say that he'd just be a minute or two. Eventually though he shouted--"this is Mexico....why don't you go to Spain?"
Highly ambiguous, of course!
Simon

[Polly]

¡Muy interesante!
Perhaps the inference was that Spainairds are more concerned with
punctuality? Ambivilant, indeed.

In my years living in a large Hispanic neighborhood in Detroit I lived and worked among people from numerous Latin American backgrounds: Columbian, Venezuelan, Puerto Rican, Cubano, Dominican, and of course, Mexican. It's funny, Every L/A culture had something they didn't quite like about the other L/A cultures.

Speaking very broadly: Mexicans & Puerto Ricans have a long standing political animosity: Mexicans tend to carry a bit of venom towards Puerto Ricans because Puerto Rico is a US Territory, and are US citizens who can come and go to the mainland as they please, while Mexicans, who live right next door, have a much more difficult time with immigration.
Likewise, Dominicans and Cubans have a mutual distrust of one another...and they all had plenty of ethnic epithets for one another. Which I never fully understood.

Still, the WORST name any Latino could call another was
Vasco or Basqueirdo. To call someone a Basque was considered the very dirtiest and deepest of insults. :confused:

What a shame. :'(

[Simon]

I forgot to mention, that I was also in a bar, watching the European cup final between Barcelona and Madrid. ALL the Mexicans supported Barcelona.....