Villarejo: The rise and fall of the Spanish state’s secret fixer • Hacker News Board

Re: Villarejo: The rise and fall of the Spanish state’s secret fixer

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Post by pvaldes » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 1:26 PM UTC

nhnhhnl wrote: post #36

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We are quite hard on us. This is a nasty cultural trait of Spain, because this hinders our work. I work in science and I think we would do much better if we didn't have this inferiority complex.

Exactly, seriously why is everyone in Spain like this? Spain is a wonderful and advanced country in most ways. Although I think having an inferiority complex is probably good for the country because it's the only way to improve.

> why is everyone in Spain like this?

Nah, not everyone. You will see all this people singing proud "I'm spanish!, spanish!, spanish!..." in the next UEFA champions league. I assume that we are just a little drama queens sometimes, but in the end we all are very similar to you. You will find exactly the same frolicking behavior in any basketball league.

Being young adults and trying to thrive in a big city is not easy of course, but this is not a problem exclusive from Spain

Re: Villarejo: The rise and fall of the Spanish state’s secret fixer

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Post by kostarelo » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 2:19 PM UTC

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I'm currently learning Spanish and while I'm sure I will understand 50% of what they say, I will give it a try :P

Offtopic, but hello, how are you learning Spanish? Any hacks or cool techniques so far? I’m learning it too and I’d like to think I’m 30% there, and I’m learning for my family .

Absolutely! I personally started using Busuu about two years ago. I'm now at 85% level and almost ready to take the B2 exams.

In the meantime, I joined a Spanish/English exchange Meetup group. We did weekly sessions talking in Spanish.

I started listening to Spanish podcasts made for beginners. I like the Hoy Hablamos. Started listening to Spanish music, tried to read the lyrics of my favourite songs.

At this point, I'm watching Spanish films in Netflix with Spanish subtitles. I think I'm getting 70% of it, quite a lot I need to pause and translate something or rewind a few times.

I'm definitely nowhere close to being fluid but I'm feeling the progress I made over those two years and I just keep going. I'm not in rush in any way so I'm not pushing my self too hard.

My ultimate goal is to be able to go to Spain and talk fluid Spanish with locals. :)

Re: Villarejo: The rise and fall of the Spanish state’s secret fixer

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Post by pvaldes » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 3:06 PM UTC

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We are quite hard on us. This is a nasty cultural trait of Spain, because this hinders our work. I work in science and I think we would do much better if we didn't have this inferiority complex.

> We are quite hard on us. There is no "us" in Spain. There's castillian imperialists and people living in occupied territories. The only possible "us" right now for many Spanish passport-holders is Europe.

> There's castillian imperialists and people living in occupied territories

Sorry but the constitution grants to every citizen the right to work and live peacefully anywhere they wish inside the country boundaries.

I'm pleased to inform you that this includes the grant for YOU to live in MY place without being tagged as "invasive imperialist" or harassed by me to quit the area. That would be simply illegal (the words idiotic and ludicrous would be also good adjectives); but don't worry, we never would do that to your family.

in short, haters gonna hate... Anybody can go and create their own Cat-anon and rewrite the history to fit into their delusions if they want (Is a free country after all), but they only lie to themselves and the reality will hit like a ton of bricks eventually

Re: Villarejo: The rise and fall of the Spanish state’s secret fixer

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Post by pvaldes » Sat, Jan 16, 2021, 3:42 PM UTC

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That's such a ridiculous claim that I have to assume you are spaniard. Spain is actually a pretty average EU country by most metrics. (Not to say that it doesn't have structural problems, but that's hardly exclusive to Spain)

Most metrics is subjective. The metrics most spaniards look are -General Unemployment rate -Juvenile unemployment -Minimun Salaries -Buy and Rent prices in principal cities And in most of these Spain is at the bottom

2020 United Nations World Happiness Report: place 28 (from 156).

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Post by iagovar » Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 7:27 PM UTC

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We are quite hard on us. This is a nasty cultural trait of Spain, because this hinders our work. I work in science and I think we would do much better if we didn't have this inferiority complex.

As a latin-american, I never understood why spain could not capitalize on their relationship and cultural ties with Latin America, like England did with the commonwealth. We speak the exact language across a really vast territory across two continents, some potential there must have been! It is really austonding that there only a loose integration between spanish-speaking countries, despite sharing very similar (good…

Spain spends too much energy dealing with internal problems.