I don't hate French food, but I'm not enamored with it like many people. I do like the way they eat though with how they order their dishes, but many European countries do that in a similar way.
As a Spaniard myself... The staring part is quite common among us as well. It's not because of your skin color, specially older people are really bold in the way they stare at stragers. It's creepy sometimes for us too.
@@frgv4060 They'll probably smile at you, it is not a challenge or anyhting like that, we usually just look a people looking to start a friendly interaction.
If a southern spaniard stares at you, try smiling and saying hi, 99'9% of times they will smile back and probably this will start a friendly interaction.
Something that people have to understand is that Spain and Mediterranean countries in general are very social and extroverted. It is quite normal to look at or interact with strangers in public, it has nothing to do with your ethnicity. You will also find racist people but they are a minority.
The Spanish are not extroverted. The spanish go out to bars a sit there to be with their friends. They are not intersted in getting to know new people. I've been here long enough to know that. The point is to be with their friends. The idea of "getting to know new people" isn't even reflected in the language.
Just to have an idea of how extroverted our social behaviour is in Spain: I'm actually an introvert but ever since I've been living abroad the local people have always assumed that I was an extrovert just because I display a mild Spanish way of approaching them haha
Spain still has a lot of racism and its rising, which has a lot to do with classist hate/fear of african migrants coming from Morocco and political tension about borders... 😢 Obviously the global alt right ascension won't help. Hope we can build a better future of Unity all together, staring because skin colour is not acceptable but mistreating someone is illegal and rejectable. Sorry for my Broken english, I am spanish 😊
@@beatrizvera5043 Where do you live in spain dude? That is just not true. I have yet to hear a single racist comment and I live in a capital city there. Do not apply commetns from 2 people and apply it to 48 millions
I lived in Spain as a refugee when I was in my preteens. I went back in 2016 and it felt like I never left, it felt like home. Yes, it is a European country but they have a very distinct culture and a wonderful culture. It helps if you get a great grasp of the language too.
What you probably don't realize is that Spaniards stares to each other frequently (it happens to me all the time in MADRID and I'm a pretty standard Spanish guy) It is very different from the US.
Yeh this comes from most of EU countries even in Rusia. This just depends and it is not a generalize thing. You can have people in US with the same stare bro. wtf you talking about
Hola, siento no poder escribir en inglés. Bienvenido a España. Soy un hombre "mayor" criado cerca del Pirineo. Cuando yo era niño, España era un país pobre, y casi no había inmigración. La primera vez que vi a alguien de ascendencia africana fue en un bus de la montaña. No sabía ni que existíais. Mi asombro fue evidente, para vergüenza de mi familia, que me reprendió al instante. Afortunadamente, ese hombre fue más que comprensivo. Le divirtió mucho mi asombro, y se ofreció a explicarme. Me dejó una impronta muy agradable. Hay que decir que yo mismo soy mestizo, de ascendencia europea y americana. En mí se nota físicamente, pero mi piel, aunque cetrina, es clara. Más allá de mi aspecto, la historia de mi familia confirma el mestizaje. El "problema" con los españoles es doble: 1.º) La Historia española, con un pasado más o menos boyante y territorios en los cinco continentes, atrajo mucha inmigración entonces (voluntaria y forzada); y nunca hubo segregación por raza. Veo que vives en Andalucía. El primer catedrático negro del mundo, que sepa, tuvo plaza en Granada hace muchos siglos, Juan Latino. Aún quedan instituciones, como la Hermandad de los Negritos en Sevilla. Hubo zonas de mayoría negra en Andalucía, creo que una estaba en la provincia de Málaga, donde entiendo que resides. -2.º) Gran parte de los españoles no saben que tienen mezcla, porque apenas saben de sus abuelos a no ser que hayan hecho algo relevante. Solo títulos nobiliarios, como el Ducado de Moctezuma, nos recuerdan orígenes en otros continentes. La gran depresión económica del siglo pasado interrumpió la inmigración, de larga data, desacostumbrando al contraste. Debido a la ausencia de segregación es casi imposible distinguir a sus descendientes de cualquier otro español. Como a nadie le importaba el color de piel, y a casi nadie le interesa una historia familiar igual a la de los demás, no se recuerda. Son españoles como cualquier otro. Cuando nací, en la Dictadura, el Estado aún se encargaba de recordarnos nuestro origen multiétnico en las escuelas. Nos enseñaban que España era un "Crisol de razas y culturas". Como bien has dicho, este es el camino. Por desgracia estamos importando ideologías y maneras de otros lugares más "desarrollados"; además de que 1d10tas e interesados siempre ha habido en todas partes. Lamento los episodios de mala experiencia. Suerte.
Bienvenido a España, majo. No te preocupes por el hecho de que te miren. Miramos a cualquiera que nos parezca interesante pero te aseguro que no es por la melanina en tu piel. Espero que disfrutes de estar aquí.
Eso iba a decir yo, de todos los paises que hay por ahi España es en la que menos te tienes que preocupar de eso, somos gente muy sincera y amistosa, como en todos sitios pues hay escepciones pero por lo general si no eres de aqui la gente va a responder de forma muy positiva. Toda persona que se comporte de forma decente y correcta es bienvenida. Ademas aqui se come mejor que en ningun sitio y puedes visitar sitios preciosos. Te recomiendo el norte, asturias y galicia son de lo mas bonito que tenemos, pero hace fresco. Me quedo con lo que dice el amigo del video, viajar es la clave de todo, en mi opinion estados unidos o eres americano o no lo eres,son mas irrespetuosos y mas desconfiados, no me gusta estados unidos. Aqui en españa te vas de copas y lo mismo haces un amigo para toda la vida.
Hombre, algo tendrá que ver la melanina... Al fin y al cabo, como tu mismo dices, miramos a quien nos parece interesante, y alguien con un aspecto claramente diferente de la mayoría resulta automáticamente interesante.
@@andressigalat602 Ya, pero no es específicamente porque es de piel oscura, simplemente porque destaca en una multitud, los altos, los bajos, los de pelo raro, los de ropa rara y los de cualquier cosa que destaque se les mira igual.
I remember the first time I visited the United States, I was in New York with an American friend who lived in Spain a couple of years, he wanted to show me around the city, and the first thing he said to me was: "don't stare people, it's not normal here, especially black men, because that's a sign you want to fight". I was very shocking and spent the rest of the trip trying not to lock eyes with anyone, it was quite overwhelming. In Spain it's normal to exchange a quick glance with people you pass on the street, at least in small cities or towns, even more, in smaller communities and in the countryside, it's polite to exchange a greeting. It's funny that when you meet a foreigner in the middle of the countryside, they don't usually say hello, often they even look away, and here this is seen as very rude.
Yo miro y hablo si hace falta. Y los tímidos o desequilibrados que se adapten o se vayan de este país donde buscamos la felicidad colectiva. Un abrazo.
as a Spanish, the issue with seasoning meat is that good meat tastes great without seasoning, except a bit of salt to increase the flavor. So if you get good meat adding seasoning sort of defeats the purpose. for other meat, specially in a bocadillo we add things like alioli or lemon juice.
@@alpacamale2909 the English, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and even the Spanish in the Philippines were fighting for control of local spice markets. I love Spain, but food tastes better with good spices. After all great nations fought wars over them.
@@lalodaniels1388 I still don't understand why we're having this argument over modern day tastes of food. it doesn't matter. Also every country decides how to use its spices.
I'am a Spaniard, mixed race. When I was born they were almost not foreigners/non-white people. So I was a kind of alien. Everyone looked at me like if I was an exotic animal in the zoo. However I have to say people have been 99% of the time nice with me. I've experienced a bit of racism, but very anecdotic.... Yes, people stare a lot, but it's not that much liked to race, it's just curiosity. We Spaniards are a culture not ashamed of staring other people. Look, we sit at the bar terrace just to stare people walking in front of the bar. In the eyes of a Spaniard there's a huge difference between a USA citizen (doesn't matter if black or white) and an African. You and my father share race, but you come from very different cultures, and under the eyes of a Spaniard, they can also make the difference.
Same here, I feel you 💯. I grew up in Madrid and I was kinda like an alien round here but generally people were just curious. Anyway nowadays nobody looks at me more than anybody else and younger lads are mixed or have black friends or work and party with Dominicans, Colombians and such. I've traveled my country with my African grandmother and zero problems. Saludos.
"racism" in spain xD Next time ask people why staring instead of making up things. Maybe you did sth strage for people sorrund or you were speaking other language so curiosity is a nature from humans. "being alien" Yeh even spanish people has the same feeling sometimes just because in spain we have a pretty mixup culture so dont wait to people not watching anything
Been for more than half my life a guy with long hair made me feel that way for so many years. You just get used to it until it's apparently it's normal and no one gives a fuck.
Absolutely. Don't get upset with people staring at you. You have a beautiful skin indeed, i don't mean the color, i mean the texture. I'm serious, you have lovely skin, as a spaniard i envy you for this. I mean it. We stare at people, it's simply normal behavior, no disrespect. ❤
I've lived in Spain for many years in three provinces.. advice, learn a few words, smile. It doesn't hurt and the smile you get back is worth it. Never had a problem. I love the respect for seniors. Imoa 🇪🇦
My German paternal grandparents always spent part of the year in Spain, where they owned a finca. My mother's parents preferred to spend the winter season in Spain. But unlike my paternal grandparents, they lived in a colony of expats where mainly Germans and, I guess, English people had their own housings, while my paternal grandparents only had Spanish neighbors. They spoke Spanish accordingly well. It never made sense to me to want to live in a country, if even temporarily, without learning the local language at least at a rudimentary level. You miss so many opportunities to get to know a country better.
The explanation about seasoning is crazy. As a spanish citizen, we just love natural flavor in barbecues, but for the rest It is different like pincho moruno, cazón en adobo, pollo al ajillo, etc...
@@isak_art It makes sense, think that in USA most foods are heavily seasoned. In Spain is not very common for restaurants, but for example some grilled chicken doesn't have sauce by default. Or good beef steak usually doesn't have sauce.
Spanish cuisine philosophy IS based around having a few ingredients of a very high quality, without a lot of seasoning so that you admire the quality of the food itself. great video brother
Have you ever came to the north coast of Spain? If you like the scenery of the south..the north will make you go crazy. Its like a totally diferent country 😂.
@@user-wn4kj6wo6c Yo creo que los del norte vamos de vacaciones al sur mucho más que los del sur venís a norte 😅. Las dos tierras tiene su encanto, pero te aseguro que el norte no tiene desperdicio. 😊
@@user-wn4kj6wo6c todos los norteños conocemos el sur, te lo aseguro. Hemos estado mil veces en mil sitios. Y sí, el norte también es una maravilla digna de verse.
Because they are only looking for the offense. As a Spaniard ( and Bolivian) never in my life i've heard the word "mono" used in an offensive way. Here "mono" is cute. But the first time i heard that "insult" was from a British crackhead ( white dude that spoke English) in my neighbourhood and then in tv, in the sports time.🤷🏽♀️ That's not normal and that's why they put it on tv to condenm that. Spain isn't racist country.
They are not common. Do not confuse ultras with fans. And by no means are they representative. They are literally the most extremist representation of any society.
i lived a year in Madrid, and when the landlady saw the amount of seasoning that i put in a steak, she asked me: You cant differentiate the flavor of the different cuts of meat, right? She told me that a good steak you only cook it quick with high heat and only salt and pepper, leave it rest for 1 min and that's it. After that, I have only cooked my steaks like that.
To be honest, in Spain we're not even that special about steaks and meat. Only in the Northern area of the country they're more obsessed about getting the "perfect" steak... And yet even in restaurants around Europe they will only add salt to the steak and leave the black pepper seasoning for the customer (sometimes with a small jug of special cooked sauce).
Qiuizás sea por ser gallego, pero yo nunca le pondría pimienta a un buen filete de ternera o vaca (buey), pero si al cerdo o al pollo a la plancha. con una pizca de sal es suficiente. Tampoco le pondría limón al marisco, porque es enmascarar su sabor, y si el marisco es bueno es un pecado... Un poco de sal y una o dos hojas de laurel en el agua, y listo para comer.
Solo le echo limón a la paella cuando no me gusta. Aquí el sabor se lo da los calditos de producto bueno que tenemos, o la propia calidad de la carne... lo demás es disimular mala comida que podría haberse marinado en el Ganges.
@@georgezee5173 Doy fe de que en el norte sí que lo valoramos de otra forma. Pasarte con las especias de un buen chuletón de ternera es como mezclar un buen vino con cocacola. Piensa que si estás pagando por un chuletón añejo de 70€ el kilo, quieres poder saborerar la diferencia a un chuletón normal.
4:15 I had that same conversation with a black girl a while ago (dominican), as she was crying because people stared at her when she came into a cafe, and i told her than that wasn't really racism, it's only because people are interested in you because you are different, but not in a bad way... like if some guy with blue hair comes into the same bar, it's kind of unique and you stare, but you really don't have any negative feeling towards him...
Spain, mostly the north of Spain (e.g. Basque Country, maybe you know San Sebastian) has if not the best, one of the best cuisines in the world. Hands down top 3 in the world.
The staring is something to get used to. When I speak to someone staring (it is cultural) it has never been a negative exchange...NEVER. I have lived here for 25 years. Racism exists, but it is nothing compared to the US.
I'd say in Spain there's more xenophobia than real racism (althoug I'm not denying there's some real racist people here, neither saying that xenophobia is not bad in itself). As he has said, people here associate the darker skin color with African illegal immigration, as we haven't had a lot of black people living here historically. Only in the last few decades have we seen a lot of immigration that has made darker skinned people become more common.
Creo que has explicado bastante bien el contexto en el que te encuentras en España como una persona negra. Hoy ya menos, pero no hace tanto, era realmente excepcional encontrarte a una persona negra en tu día a día. Yo tengo 55 años y soy de Murcia, creo que vi la primera persona negra por la calle a finales de los '80 (88 u 89), y era un jugador de baloncesto del equipo local. Quiero decir, que aunque ahora hay mucha más presencia de distintas nacionalidades, orígenes y etnias, aún hoy y según que sitios, puede ser que te miren con curiosidad (que no significa rechazo). Siento que tuvieras alguna que otra situación negativa por tu tono de piel, y agradezco que lo hayas tomado como casos puntuales. Un saludo desde Murcia.
I'm from Spain, Barcelona. American people are for the most part very welcome. You are respectful and you are amazing. I hope you find happiness here, amigo.
Habla por ti, yo no les tengo ningún respeto a éstos catetos...y cada vez que alguno de ellos abre la boca me da la razón....gente sin historia ni interés en el resto del mundo...
I think sometimes people forget how homogenized the majority of other countries are compared to the U.S. We’re a young country and most of our ancestors traveled across an ocean to get here. It’s not unreasonable to be curious about those who stand out in a crowd, as long as there aren’t any rude remarks, gestures or dirty looks.
We are not homogenized at all in Spain... even neighboors as galicians and asturians are quite different in their personalities, even if they share more in common between them than with people from Andalucia, who are completely different.
@@p.informatico1320tío ni cerca de lo diferentes que son un vietnamita que fue tras la guerra y un descendiente de africanos llevados a américa como esclavos en 1700
@p.informatico1320 Dude... she's talking about race. Most of us are white. It doesn't matter if you are blonde or green eyes, white is white. Even gypsies are mixed with spaniards after generations here. She's 100% right.
Yes the Spanish stare. I’m Irish living in Malaga, but it is very common in Ireland for complete strangers to come up to you in the street in Ireland and talk to you for a long period. So I start speaking nicely to the starers here in Spain and I make them into friendly neighbours. That incident on the train was blatantly racist and that official should be reported. That is a very good insight you have on seasoning in Spain relating it to the influence of Civil War. But what I would say to you from someone who adores food myself and who has lived in different parts of the world and has a unique tolerance of scotch bonnet peppers and I always double up on garlic quantity from a recipe ; the ingredients and self referential flavour and tastes of basic food in Spain and France (western European continent excluding Ireland and UK), are incredible. The meat and vegetables are as close to organic as you’ll get and crucially taste of themselves. A tomato in the Uk tastes of water. A tomato in Spain even from a supermarket tastes of the heaven, a tomato should taste like. The chickens are completely corn fed, which gives the meat a juicy and succulent natural flavouring; that if you roast it without even putting basic seasoning like salt and pepper on it, it is delicious. So the basic food and ingredients have innate natural flavourings in them, that consubstantially taste of itself. In the UK, Ireland and North America, this is not the case, only in small availability and where it is also very expensive. And therefore, cooking in Spain doesn’t often need much seasoning as in fact you end up ruining a beautiful piece of innately flavoured meat. Sorry to hear of your experience in France. By contrast, I have eaten relatively standard simple French dishes in France and thought them supreme in their eating. I wonder if you are visiting the big cities and going to the bistros near the tourist spots which would be the temptation after a tiring long haul through looking at the sites. These are often places just churning out for the tourists and are rip offs. You get the everywhere in all European cities. You must be careful to choose wisely and ask several of the local people to get a consensus of where you might go. I am familiar with a town called Perigueux in the Dordogne region of France. No much tourism, but the Beef Bourguignon there is to die for. The care and length of time spent on dishes is incredible. Do please give France another go, I guarantee you, it’ll be worth it.
About what you said on people staring at you... I'm from South East Spain and have been living in London for 10 years. I actually live in a neighbourhood where easily a third of the population is black. It's 100% normal for me to see black people every single day... And yet, everytime I go back to Spain to visit my family, since there're so few black people in my hometown, I still can't help to kind of react "surprised" when I see them. It's nothing malicious, it's just that they stand out given the context. It's the same if as a white person you visit an African country where you're the only non-Black walking around in the town, I can only guess everyone is going to look out of curiosity (even if it's just a glance) xD
@@georgezee5173 Cuando le comenté la experiencia del joven a mi esposo y también le exclamé: “a mí nadie me miró así en España!”, él me dijo porque tú te ves como ellos (españoles) y eres del mismo color de ellos y no resaltas, pero si fueras de piel oscura también te mirarían. Y me dejó pensando. Es cierto si uno resalta lo miran. Viví en Ucrania en el 96-97 y tuve la misma experiencia que él porque no soy alta, tengo los ojos castaños y el cabello castaño claro, pero no rubio y allá son casi todos súper altos, rubios y de ojos azules. Yo resaltaba y me señalaban con el dedo, hablaban de mí en mi propia cara y me fijaban la mirada sin discreción como un puñal en la piel. Pero lo entendí porque nunca habían visto a alguien diferente y, sin embargo, muchos estaban fascinados con mi físico, simplemente porque era diferente.
Los españoles, nos miramos fijamente , nos tuteamos entre desconocidos, nos abrazamos y nos besamos. Nuestra necesidad de contacto, aunque solo sea con la mirada, es superior a nosotros, muchos abrazos y besos desde Galicia.
Me pregunto si habrá en el mundo un lugar con una actitud intermedia entre el "ni siquiera me mires ni te acerques porque me invades" de los EE. UU. y tanto beso, tanto abrazo y tanta babosería de España. Que tampoco representa ninguna afectividad real.
@mariajesusparga1936 no confundas la falta de respeto al espacio personal con calidad humana. No tiene que ver.
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El individuo que se lió a gritar e insultar a los periodistas que estaban retransmitiendo en directo desde Picanya también debía de tener mucha necesidad de contacto.
Im half Spanish half American living in Spain for the last 25 years, and yea it is not a big deal to stare in Spain, it is considered normal, we do it to each other.
Malagueño here! I'm sorry u had that weird situations. I love when someone loves my city, if i see you sometime on the street, let me invite you to a beer man!
The only really weird situation was the one he suffered in the train. Since he was with his wife, I think she should've reported the staff member from Renfe for his aribitrary and racially-motivated actions. I do understand the fact that that worker is facing the fact that a lot African immigrants won't pay their tickets (that's a fact that happens all around Europe, actually), but that doesn't give him the right to prejudge any situation, especially when he ends up not even acknowledging that this man had indeed bought his ticket.
Be yourself. No need to try hard to appear as a tourist to differentiate yourself from African migrants just to please more people. That in itself kinda gives Uncle Tom-ish vibes. You just be yourself and those who are truly good or bad people will show their colors.
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Actually, he doesn't look much like a black African immigrant, because they tend to be thin and some of them are, at most, moderately overweight.
And if he naturally doesn't look like them, that's fine. I'm just saying there's no need to purposely go out of the way to try to not be confused with them. If he does look like them and he's minding his business it shouldn't matter because this is the 21st century and decent, well educated people shouldn't hold any prejudices.
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@ , I think you're assuming too much about the rabble of southern Spain.
When you identify random black men as Lebron James I automatically assume you are racist. Do what you will with that info but I’m speaking for all of us.
Hola !! Algunas acotaciones: 1) La comida en España se sazona con la propia comida, y si los ingredientes que usas tienen la calidad de los nuestros eso hace de nuestra cocina es una de las mejores del mundo, tanto en su carácter saludable como de sabor. 2) La cocina francesa, que también es mediterránea como la española y la italiana, tiene la misma característica, se sazona la comida con la comida, no sé de dónde has sacado la idea de que la comida francesa es muy especiada. 3) España nunca ha sazonado su comida del modo en el que afirmas, ni para exportarla, ni por las carestías impuestas por la guerra civil. Se usaba el aceite de oliva y la sal para conservar alimentos. Se usan hierbas aromáticas y especias, en cantidades moderadas para resaltar sabores, nunca para que lo único que aprecies cuando comes sean las especias, lo cual resulta algo bastante desagradable, y que como bien dices que decimos los españoles, hace que se pierda el sabor de lo que estás comiendo. Un saludo.
Creo que tu comentario pasa por alto ciertos aspectos de la gastronomía española que involucran un uso considerable de especias. 1. Es cierto que la calidad de los ingredientes en España es excelente, y la cocina española se basa mucho en sabores naturales. Sin embargo, eso no significa que no se utilicen especias para enriquecer los platos. En muchas regiones, el uso de especias como el pimentón, el azafrán, el comino y la canela es bastante común. Por ejemplo, el pimentón de la Vera es fundamental en platos como el pulpo a la gallega y los embutidos ibéricos. También el azafrán es esencial en la paella, dando no solo color sino un toque de sabor único. 2. Sobre la cocina francesa, tienes razón en que no es una cocina predominantemente especiada. Sin embargo, en la cocina mediterránea (que incluye a la francesa, italiana y española), hay un balance entre hierbas y especias que complementa el sabor de los ingredientes principales. Esto varía según la región y la receta, y no debería llevarnos a generalizar. 3. Históricamente, en España se han usado especias y hierbas para conservar y mejorar los sabores, especialmente en platos de origen árabe como el cuscús o el pincho moruno, que integran comino, cilantro, y otras especias que aportan sabores intensos y complejos.
@@martfp88 Está claro que lo que un yanki considera especiado no tiene nada que ver con nuestra cocina, cuando vas a EEUU pides carne y sabe a pimienta, podría ser la peor carne del mundo que nunca lo sabrás, así con muchas otras cosas, todo tiene más sal, más azúcar y más de todo yo creo que es porque la comida es una mierda sinceramente.
No estoy de acuerdo. Sobre los gustos no hay nada escrito. ¿Por qué hay este empeño en declarar siempre que la comida española es una de las mejores del mundo? A alguna gente le gusta y a otra no.
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@@meatmoneymilkmonogamyequal5583, se debe a un fenómeno conocido como chavinismo o chovinismo.
As a Spain myself i consider myself looking right at spanish faces like an spaniard who appreciates spanish culture depending on the spanish perspective 🥰 bocadillo pulpo socarre empanadilla lentejas y tostada de tomate con jamon paella migas chipirones patatas asadas gazpacho
Tampoco pasa nada por ser racista. Que quizá los españoles no lo sepáis, pero no hay más racista que un extranjero de un país tercermundista. De hecho se ríen de vosotros. Salu2
I am Spanish, but I live in the UK (I am sure it's more like America here), I have a take on your comments about people staring at you a lot. There are a lot of black people in Spain, yes, but most of them are african immigrants that live humble lifes. They dress, speak a certain way, work on the fields and similar hard jobs, mainly socialize with other people in their situation... I think in a couple of generations it will be very different, it already is much different than it was 20 years ago. First, Spanish people are more stary than other cultures, it is what it is. But also I am sure those people must have felt a certain dissonance as you are not the kind of person they encounter every day, different from the other black people they encounter every day. They were probably trying to understand what they see. My wife is british, looks like a standard white british woman. When we go to Spain, to not turistic places, she gets a lot of stares as well (Because of the language she speaks, jhow she looks...)
The Lebron James part was so funny😂😅 now here me out, most of spanish people may have never seen a black american in their whole lifes. Most of them just on TV, so most people may only know Lebron, Myke Tyson or Snoop Dogg. Even to me, as a spanish guy, when traveling to places far away, people have called me Xavi, Villa or about any famous spanish football player, so I feel kind of identified with that experience😂
In my opinion, Spanish food is the best in the world, and not only that, all the renowned chefs think the same, even better, the best flavor in the world is officially Spanish acorn-fed ham.
Black in Spain? That's a modern thing. The first black person I ever saw "apart from on TV" was in 1992. Before that it was VERY rare to see any black person.
I'm watching your videos not reading subtitles to just improve or keep my english level, and they are awesome. Thank you man! Keep going the good work :)
We stare at people and say hello at people just because, it's just the way we are , even when we are in a bad mood, and don't feel like it ,we greet extrangers . If I think it out loud, maybe it makes no sense, but it's so embeded in our culture that we feel like we are making a friendly statement and letting know we are cordial in doing so, making anyone passing us feeling more secure, and as a woman I appreciate it a lot : a kind stare with a quick greet means "Hi, I am not a threat". If you catch someone staring at you, just greet them, you'll be surprised.
Like to start with well wishes for the people of Valencia, and what's happening. I'm seeing some heavy footage of people demanding the local politicians be thrown out, the police hitting people with batons. So I wish them much support in this time of grief over the losses they've suffered. Brother man! Laying it out there, juuuuust a little bit and telling it like it is. I've seen a few different folks with youtube channels who have moved to Spain (despite those taxes!) and like you, they're pretty much happy. And I'm a 100% "get out of America and go SOMEWHERE" guy. I'm gonna bite the bullet and move to Europe (that place where you don't like the food, haha). So I'm prepared. And I really look forward to making trips to Spain SPECIFICALLY to eat meats the way they prepare it (I've seen those videos). And of course to see as many Dali places as I can. But it's hilarious people telling you in the comments "oh it's common to stare" like you haven't BEEN there a decade, like you just arrived yesterday. There's a "curious stare" and a "hostile stare," and every single human being on earth knows the difference. Everybody. They know what it is. YOU know it is. And that's the deal. They just want to know if you're a "good one" or a "bad one." As an American, you've had a lifetime of experience. And as a person who has chosen to move there, you just have to factor it in, "Ok, I'm cool, there's gonna be a 10-15% social tax. Can I live with it, versus, being shot by a cop in Georgia or Florida? Yeah ok, I can take it. I have to have some strategies so they judge me better." But yeah, you ARE being judged. So congrats on having the gumption to leave, the TENACITY to stay, and enjoying the quality of life. Living abroad, long term, is both a challenge and great opportunity.
I live in Chile and we also have like 6% black population, most of them came from poor parts of Venezuela and Haiti a few years ago. I think I have never talked to a black person before here in Chile, but I notice people stare too. Specially in places like restaurants or hikes in national parks, Chileans stare at them for a few seconds because they basically have never seen black peoples doing those kind of activities. They are used to seeing black people working on an expensive restaurant, not eating there (probably the same happened to you). There’s no hate, racism nor bad intentions, it’s just curiosity
Spaniard here. This video made me incredibly happy, thank for speaking so well of Spain, we sure have our rough edges and times, but still, it's incredibly envigorating hearing this from someone that came from the outside.
People looking at you because you look different is not racist. As a native Spaniard, I have been stared at haaaaaaaaaaaaaard in some parts of the world where people look different than me. It's human.
Cultural maybe but not human. In the states it is considered rude and we teach our kids not to. I've been here for years and sometimes it is just annoying.
Yo tengo ansiedad social así que si la gente me mira de forma insistente puedo ponerme nervioso, jaja. Pero por lo general me sentí mejor en España, quando estudié allí, por la forma de ser de la gente, que me pareció más acogedora que en mi propio país.
If you have to teach your children about that, it's because is a natural phenomenon: check-mate. And the US is not a role model for anybody. That attitude is very similar to racism. @@christinecleavest9099
@@christinecleavest9099 well, he is not I the states anymore, so in our culture no one gives a fuck, you have funny hat? we look, even talk to you directly. You look different? we look simple. No bad connotation behind.
@@CarlosPerez-zf1uy first off it is not human it is cultural, that is what I was addressing....saying it's human is not correct. I've lived in other parts of the world where staring isn't cultural. There is a difference between looking one in the eye when talking and just staring. Also you do not get to regulate how one feels. As POC we get pretty used to telling when staring is harmless and when it has bad connotations, especially if you understand a snide remark behind. Now go have the day you deserve.
Una cosa es usar especias ,que en España si se usan ,comino,pimienta, pimentón, hierbas aromáticas como tomillo, orégano,romero, hierbabuena....y otra es echar litros de ketchup a todo lo que comes...😅
As a Malaga native, I appreciate that you are so understanding about the issue of race. There are racists, yes, but the majority is not. We are just still getting used to the fact that there is a greater variety of people... until 10 years ago, the colors ranged from milky white to olive brown, now there are more chromatic nuances. And yes, we tend to stare, but even in situations that are not new. I hope to see you on Calle Larios.
You probably get more stares being different from what we are used to, but in any case staring is not rude in Spain it's just something we do by default not even thinking about it. The Lebron James thing is more like "if you've only seen Boss Baby every movie looks like Boss Baby".
MR. Boyd, My husband and I spent one month in 2022 and one month in 2023 and loved, loved, loved Spain. My husband is African American but speaks Spanish semi fluently and I am half East Indian and speak Spanish passably. We were welcomed wherever we went. I have never experienced such friendliness from strangers in the US. We are desperately trying to move there. Healthcare is an issue as there are age limitations for private healthcare and we are past those limitations but as of this writing we have not given up. We never had problems with "staring" and everyone was so nice. We felt safer than we ever had in the US. Loved your video and it's positive comments about Spain. Cannot say enough good things about this country!!! Beatriz Golden-Hayes, Atlanta, GA
Thanks for refreshing my memories, I can attest that and many other Mediterranean mountains were under the water. I’m a geologist, used to work for Repsol and other French company, during that time had the luck to be involved in field trips and studies on those rock formations. And about ppl starring strange colors, I used to know a woman teacher, who was white like milk, she was Dominican but from Spanish relatives, and she happened to be living in Korea, so when was in a school bus, the little Korean girls would spend the whole trip staring at her like , what your are so different Wow. About racism, I say, I have lived and work in north and South America, in Europe, been in Angola for three short periods, and work and live in two Persian Gulf countries, and visited many other places along the way, found racism in many ways, at different levels and shades, but never so clear cut racism like in USA, to the point that the language, the law, the culture and some extreme ppl behavior had been more impacted by racism than most places I know.
Gran video. Gracias por compartirnos tu visión, es muy enriquecedor. Espero que disfrutes por acá todos los años que sigas estando ^^ PD: Si piensas que la cocina española es sosa no vayas a Japón xD
As others have mentioned in the comments, don’t be put off by the staring! I'm from Malaga, born and raised, and for a while, I had to wear an eye patch. That’s when I really noticed the stares-everywhere, all the time! Haha. It’s just how people can be here; it has nothing to do with racism.
I invite you to come to Galicia, if you are a photographer I can guarantee you that the landscapes are insane. Food is amazing too, happy to hear that you enjoy living in the country
It is a fact that a large part of the population, especially in the inland towns, if they saw a black person it was on TV or in the movies. It has only been since the 1990s that their presence has increased due to immigration policies.
The first black person I saw in real life was when I was 15 or 16 , they were a mixed family from PR who migrated to my town. It was around the 95 or 96.
In Spain is really common that people stares at your doesn't matter your skin or where are you from something for example common is that when they meet someone that is familiar or that they know eachother they kiss eachother on the cheek
Love to see this type of content for a change! When studying at the conservatory of Amsterdam which is very international, I noticed the Spanish community was very close knit and a bit closed of as well. But maybe having a Spanish speaking wife helps? Also a Belgian friend told me that studying in Spain where people are more spontaneous and socially open made it much easier to make new friends than it is around these parts, so there’s that as well.. I love cultural differences, and I get that making it obvious that you’re an American by wearing tourist-drag might help with prejudice which is everywhere due to our brains not having the energy and time to always think carefully before we act, unfortunately… There are of course individual differences in how much seasoning you prefer (my young son and father in law prefer lots of seasoning due to hyposensitivity I suspect), and cultural ones (Dutch cuisine is even less spicy than Spanish), but I also think that eating spicy food all the time makes your tastebuds less sensitive, making subtle flavours subjectively bland. What I’m trying to say is that blandness is relative instead of absolute, and in terms of the amount of salt or sugar you consume it might be rather wise to refine your palate over time so subtleties start to be able to register and give you some healthier dopamine.. 😂
Also: the only time I was in spain to try the food I was in the early stages of pregnancy, so i mostly ate the tomato-spread on a bread roll (wasn’t sure about which meats and cheeses were raw and daren’t ask because i was not supposed tell people yet) and nausea issues of course 🙃
@@Lisdodde in spain every Cheese is "Raw" we Cured our Cheese or even Madurate most of them have a strong taste only Soft Cheese is most "Bland" but thats because we use it to combine with other type of food like Chorizo or Jamon
"AMERICAN LIVING IN SPAIN .. THE BLACK VERSION". That's the problem, seeing things from a race perspective. Forget about your race, forget about the race of others, there are only good people and people not so good or bad and they exist in each and every race in the world. Skin color doesn't matter. If someone treats you badly because of the color of your skin, they are simply an idiot. We do not create cultural and racial ghettos. And it all starts with yourself.
@@meatmoneymilkmonogamyequal5583 The only difference is that if they look at me badly, I think it's rude. But if they look at you badly, you think it's because of your skin. And in this way, all "bad" interactions with people are always interpreted as racism. That doesn't mean there isn't racism, just that your "perspective" is biased by the importance you give to your race. Your comment is an example of what I'm saying. And that prevents people from interacting without fear, the fear of being treated as a "black person" to you. And the fear that you will believe that we are racist, for us. Marking race, a wall is built between us. I live all this every day, do you know? There are not only blacks and whites. Forgive my English, it's very bad...
Decile eso a los marroquíes. Claro que se diferencia en España y claro que hay racismo. Y negar que lo hay y decir que solo hay gente buena y gente mala es intentar taparlo. Obviamente, hay matices, y hay interacciones que se dan por diferencias culturales y se malinterpretan. Pero también hay racismo.
I hope one day it will be as you say. But not today. Not tomorrow. As sad as it is. Spaniards have a somewhat understandable inferiority complex. Some of us, a lot of us, seem to be trying to overcome it the worst way. When I say it's a shame I mean: "Es una vergüenza".
I'm planning a trip to Valencia, and your video was very enlightening. And you are ABSOLUTELY right about people that don't travel; it's such an education. Thank you for posting the video.
I think people stares at you not because you are black , it’s because the kind of black you are. I mean , we are used to see black Africans , u can identify them so fast but it’s kind of exotic to find an African American with United States culture , it’s just feels different. But speaking of little towns from inner regions they might not have seen too much blacks, and if they are like 75 plus years they’ve grew up without a single black in their town. So that might be the answer for most of the people that stares at you 😊
Let's point one thing, Spanish people stare at random people. It's just the way we look at people. we just do. Get use to it. And this does not go for the author of this video, but for anyone visiting this diverse Country. People here just stare. Just like that. You might consider that not polite, but you are not home, you are where you are.
5:58 That is exactly what happens to me in the US. I’m a 100% Puerto Rican, but for most American l am an illegal immigrant, most likely from Mexico. I live with constant judgement of being an illegal immigrant here in the US. I was in Spain in 2023 and I did not have one person stared at me or treat me like I did not belong with the exception of a woman from Madrid that thought I was from Venezuela and given the large number of immigrants from Venezuela in Spain, some Spaniards don’t like them.
First time I hear about Spaniards not liking Venezualans... We usually welcome those running away from their pseudo-dictatorship. Same with Cubans that fled their regime.
@@georgezee5173 That was my experience with that women. I’m sure many Spaniards don’t have issues with immigrants but others do. This woman treated me contemptuously as if I was of lesser value. Apart from her, Andalusians and Extremadurans were very nice to me. Sorry if I offended you. I was very happy to be in Spain and, to be honest, I love Spain. I can’t wait to go back.
@@TheSimmpleTruth I'm not offended, just surprised, since it's the first time ever I read about a Spaniard having an issue with someone just for being specifically from Venezuela (well, believing so, in this case), when it's usually the other way around: we perceive them as people that are fleeing from a tyrannical government and they don't bring trouble to our country (unlike immigrants from other nationalities). If you said that they thought you were Dominican then I could see some Spanish people prejudging you, since unfortunately we've received lots of Dominican gangs in the past couple of decades, and those are known for being extremely violent (though they are usually violent fighting each other). Anyway... If it makes you feel better, I've been treated badly and with contempt when visiting certain places of Spain (my own country!) where some people are regional nationalists and are full of hatred towards anything that smells Spanish. Unfortunately there're stup1d A-holes everywhere...
I live in a working class neighbourhood of madrid where i am one of the only pale ginger northern europeans. They stare at me too. But it is because they are surprised to see me here more than anything.
I am from a veeeery small town and it took me like... 25 years to see a black person for the first time, until that moment only saw super actors or athletes from tv. I had to force myself not to look because I didn't want to make you feel uncomfortable but omg i love the black skin 😂💗
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You're right! For instance, us mexicans, when we see a person from the United States in one of our resorts, we don't see color. You're all "gringos" to us 😂. You guys don't realize how privileged you are compared to people from other countries. As a person that doesn't share the same sensibilities in terms of race as someone born in the US, it's sometimes hard to understand why race is so important over there. But I'm speaking entirely out of ignorance, I don't mean to minimize anyone's struggles.
Eso es porque hispano se es independientemente del color y eso lo entendemos bien los hispanos. Al final lo que hace que te comportes de una forma u otra es tu cultura. Busca el video del señor que salva las albondigas de su mujer ante una inundacion. El tio ese es mas andaluz (España)que yo y es negro
About people staring at you, I'd like to try to excuse it on Franco's fascism. My mom didn't even know that black people existed for such a long time in her life even after franco died that the first time she saw one she pointed and asked "why are you black"
Córdoba, 1969, íbamos por un parque y nos cruzamos con un chico negro. Mi madre le dijo si podía hacerle una foto junto a mis hermanas pequeñas. Todavía conservo la foto y cuando la enseño siempre nos reímos. Por aquel entonces mi madre solo había visto personas negras en las películas de Tarzán y a Sidney Poitiers, de quien decía que era guapísimo.
@@thegoat9219 No lo digo por eso. Digo que utilizas la Figura de Paquito y el fascismo para una dinámica social que estaba en Italia y en la cosmopolita Londres. Londres ahora mismo en un 36% caucásica. No lo era así en los 60.
Great stories Boyd, and you did it with a smile on your face! I’m an American who is descendant of Spaniards. I’ve never been there. I gotta go now more than ever. By the way, the way you talk about food makes take a shot as to where in the US you might be from, Louisiana with no hint of any kind of Louisiana accent. 🤔
Indeed there are black people in Spain but their numbers are still pretty low compared with the main ethnicity or even other minorities. During the spanish Christmas tradition called Cavalcade of the Three Wise Men there have been cases of some local authorities having difficulties to find black men to portray the black king Balthazar (one of the Three Kings) and relying in white actors painting themselves black to portray him. Although this kind of things are starting to be called out by modern media, they arent seen as something extremely bad as it would have been if it took place in the US because most members of spanish society dont perceive they are done with malicious intent or ill will towards black people. They just accept it happened, ask them not to do it again and move on.
Also you should say that ❤Baltasar the black king is more loved than Santa, sorry fatty, but the black king is the one everybody loves because he is the coolest 😎 of the 3 kings or Wise men 😅
That is so true. I'm from Barcelona, and of course there is going to be bad people, crazy people, racist people... spread around the world. But I appreciate so much that people like this man see through all of that mess, and speaks firmly with his truest life experience. Thank you so much! The people we like in Spain, is people with moral values, who loves this country and wants to integrate. Therefore, ¡bienvenido a España! Un fuerte abrazo desde Barcelona!❤
There have always been Africans in Spain. I'm Spanish with trace amounts of Congolese/Angolan, very proud of that fact. I have some Danish, not so interesting.
Nordic Europeans have the same feeling when they come to Spain that everybody stares and looks at them. And they're quite strict about their personal space so it's shocking for them. I guess we're like that, I never noticed but that's something we do.
Also, even super white people get "nicknames" in Spain. I used to work every summer with a Lithuanian guy who was an amazing waiter who was loved by all the regulars, and most of them would call him "Rubio" (blonde) haha
😂 I’d argue that the strategy of portraying yourself as a tourist might actually make it worse. Especially when folks are notorious for trying to extort more money from perceived outsiders.
Hey! Thanks for this video, it is nice to see how you live your time in Spain. I also loved to hear your thoughts on food because most people don't say that (and you are right, a lot of people don't season at all). Also, I don't know how good or bad your Spanish comprehension might be, but if you are learning or you are good at it, there's a podcast "No hay negros en el Tibet" (title based on the song with the same name in English) and it's three black Spaniards talking about how it is to be black and Spanish in Spain. In case you are curious (they are superinteresting people and fun to listen to)
I enjoy your video so much. Just felt the urge give you feedback on the racial issue. Being from America, for you, it's normal and 100% right to suspect of ANY white person to be racist, and you might be confused here sometimes 😃, but I tell you that spaniards are different. Many japanese tourists have anxiety attacks in Spain, because they are not used to so much unsolicited eye contact, and long stares, though they don't mean any harm or disrespect. Society is very extrovert and communitarian, people seem too "interested" in everyone else in a, sometimes, too candid way. I went to a small village in a non touristic area with a black british friend, and a group of children were behind us all the time, asking questions to my friend, like, are you an NBA player?, and teenage girls secreaming to us guapos! old ladies stopping us to touch my friend, holding his hand, some guy invited us to ham and wine in his cellar with his family and friends, and my friend was delighted, everyone happy with us, excited trying to translate their jokes to him. In the short distance, he never felt the classic condescendent paternalistic treatment he felt sometimes from white british people, as he said to me. There's some background to this. Spain had slavery outlawed from the 15th century, after they finish reonquista from the moors, that were from arab and bereber origin, and obviously, had african slaves. Even christian spaniards captured in battles by the moors were sold as slaves, and since it was against the scriptures and practiced by "the infidels", it was banned. When they discovered America, they used to mix with locals in South America from day one, marrying chieftain's daughters, to gain legitimacy, that's how they build their empire, not with brutal conquest as the British did. Well, far from Europe, some bad things may had happened, but they didn't go unpunished. Many conquistadors were captured and hanged in Spain after some chieftain plead to the king for justice on an atrocity commited. You cannot compare the spanish empire, where all "natives" were citizens and subjects, to the brutal apartheid regime of British, or French colonialism. Just look at the difference between Haiti and Dominican Republic, both share the same island, one former french slave colony, the other, former spanish province, both with black majority population. The social cohesion, low crime, and economic development of the dominicans, and its gdp per capita, is light years ahead of that of the haitians. You really spot on about the pathological obssesion with race in America, it's weird, and needs to go. I'm happy for you that you came here and found your place among our people. Keep posting man! cheers
"I hate french food", you sir are 100% spanish already.
yes
😂😂😂
I don't hate French food, but I'm not enamored with it like many people. I do like the way they eat though with how they order their dishes, but many European countries do that in a similar way.
Hahaha give this man a Spanish Passport
jajajajja total
As a Spaniard myself... The staring part is quite common among us as well. It's not because of your skin color, specially older people are really bold in the way they stare at stragers. It's creepy sometimes for us too.
Las abuelas te miran hasta el alma 😂
Cierto!!
Staring is a cultural thing here. A lot of people do it. I find it uncomfortable to be honest, and I am Spanish.
Indeed. Wink at them and see the reaction 😂
@@frgv4060 They'll probably smile at you, it is not a challenge or anyhting like that, we usually just look a people looking to start a friendly interaction.
If a southern spaniard stares at you, try smiling and saying hi, 99'9% of times they will smile back and probably this will start a friendly interaction.
100% accurate
Yeah southern spaniards just stare at people for a living, im as white as it gets and also get stares
literally every spanish
we don't look bad, we look for friends to hang out!!
I have the bad habit of looking at random people to their faces 😭🙏
Something that people have to understand is that Spain and Mediterranean countries in general are very social and extroverted. It is quite normal to look at or interact with strangers in public, it has nothing to do with your ethnicity. You will also find racist people but they are a minority.
The Spanish are not extroverted. The spanish go out to bars a sit there to be with their friends. They are not intersted in getting to know new people. I've been here long enough to know that. The point is to be with their friends. The idea of "getting to know new people" isn't even reflected in the language.
More probably xenophobic than racist to be honest.
Just to have an idea of how extroverted our social behaviour is in Spain: I'm actually an introvert but ever since I've been living abroad the local people have always assumed that I was an extrovert just because I display a mild Spanish way of approaching them haha
Spain still has a lot of racism and its rising, which has a lot to do with classist hate/fear of african migrants coming from Morocco and political tension about borders... 😢 Obviously the global alt right ascension won't help.
Hope we can build a better future of Unity all together, staring because skin colour is not acceptable but mistreating someone is illegal and rejectable. Sorry for my Broken english, I am spanish 😊
@@beatrizvera5043 Where do you live in spain dude? That is just not true. I have yet to hear a single racist comment and I live in a capital city there. Do not apply commetns from 2 people and apply it to 48 millions
I lived in Spain as a refugee when I was in my preteens. I went back in 2016 and it felt like I never left, it felt like home. Yes, it is a European country but they have a very distinct culture and a wonderful culture. It helps if you get a great grasp of the language too.
What you probably don't realize is that Spaniards stares to each other frequently (it happens to me all the time in MADRID and I'm a pretty standard Spanish guy) It is very different from the US.
Yeh this comes from most of EU countries even in Rusia. This just depends and it is not a generalize thing. You can have people in US with the same stare bro. wtf you talking about
Same for Portugal and I'm white from the UK. It is a thing here.
Hola, siento no poder escribir en inglés. Bienvenido a España.
Soy un hombre "mayor" criado cerca del Pirineo. Cuando yo era niño, España era un país pobre, y casi no había inmigración. La primera vez que vi a alguien de ascendencia africana fue en un bus de la montaña. No sabía ni que existíais. Mi asombro fue evidente, para vergüenza de mi familia, que me reprendió al instante. Afortunadamente, ese hombre fue más que comprensivo. Le divirtió mucho mi asombro, y se ofreció a explicarme. Me dejó una impronta muy agradable.
Hay que decir que yo mismo soy mestizo, de ascendencia europea y americana. En mí se nota físicamente, pero mi piel, aunque cetrina, es clara. Más allá de mi aspecto, la historia de mi familia confirma el mestizaje. El "problema" con los españoles es doble:
1.º) La Historia española, con un pasado más o menos boyante y territorios en los cinco continentes, atrajo mucha inmigración entonces (voluntaria y forzada); y nunca hubo segregación por raza. Veo que vives en Andalucía. El primer catedrático negro del mundo, que sepa, tuvo plaza en Granada hace muchos siglos, Juan Latino. Aún quedan instituciones, como la Hermandad de los Negritos en Sevilla. Hubo zonas de mayoría negra en Andalucía, creo que una estaba en la provincia de Málaga, donde entiendo que resides.
-2.º) Gran parte de los españoles no saben que tienen mezcla, porque apenas saben de sus abuelos a no ser que hayan hecho algo relevante. Solo títulos nobiliarios, como el Ducado de Moctezuma, nos recuerdan orígenes en otros continentes. La gran depresión económica del siglo pasado interrumpió la inmigración, de larga data, desacostumbrando al contraste.
Debido a la ausencia de segregación es casi imposible distinguir a sus descendientes de cualquier otro español. Como a nadie le importaba el color de piel, y a casi nadie le interesa una historia familiar igual a la de los demás, no se recuerda. Son españoles como cualquier otro. Cuando nací, en la Dictadura, el Estado aún se encargaba de recordarnos nuestro origen multiétnico en las escuelas. Nos enseñaban que España era un "Crisol de razas y culturas".
Como bien has dicho, este es el camino. Por desgracia estamos importando ideologías y maneras de otros lugares más "desarrollados"; además de que 1d10tas e interesados siempre ha habido en todas partes. Lamento los episodios de mala experiencia.
Suerte.
Magnífico relato y análisis.
Para que después vengan con cuentos.
@@PatadeCabra369🙂 Muchas gracias.
Bienvenido a España, majo. No te preocupes por el hecho de que te miren. Miramos a cualquiera que nos parezca interesante pero te aseguro que no es por la melanina en tu piel. Espero que disfrutes de estar aquí.
Eso iba a decir yo, de todos los paises que hay por ahi España es en la que menos te tienes que preocupar de eso, somos gente muy sincera y amistosa, como en todos sitios pues hay escepciones pero por lo general si no eres de aqui la gente va a responder de forma muy positiva.
Toda persona que se comporte de forma decente y correcta es bienvenida. Ademas aqui se come mejor que en ningun sitio y puedes visitar sitios preciosos. Te recomiendo el norte, asturias y galicia son de lo mas bonito que tenemos, pero hace fresco. Me quedo con lo que dice el amigo del video, viajar es la clave de todo, en mi opinion estados unidos o eres americano o no lo eres,son mas irrespetuosos y mas desconfiados, no me gusta estados unidos. Aqui en españa te vas de copas y lo mismo haces un amigo para toda la vida.
Llevando 9 años aquí, ya debería ser un español más y hablar casi sin acento...
llévatelo a tu casa y lo mantienes
Hombre, algo tendrá que ver la melanina... Al fin y al cabo, como tu mismo dices, miramos a quien nos parece interesante, y alguien con un aspecto claramente diferente de la mayoría resulta automáticamente interesante.
@@andressigalat602 Ya, pero no es específicamente porque es de piel oscura, simplemente porque destaca en una multitud, los altos, los bajos, los de pelo raro, los de ropa rara y los de cualquier cosa que destaque se les mira igual.
I remember the first time I visited the United States, I was in New York with an American friend who lived in Spain a couple of years, he wanted to show me around the city, and the first thing he said to me was: "don't stare people, it's not normal here, especially black men, because that's a sign you want to fight". I was very shocking and spent the rest of the trip trying not to lock eyes with anyone, it was quite overwhelming.
In Spain it's normal to exchange a quick glance with people you pass on the street, at least in small cities or towns, even more, in smaller communities and in the countryside, it's polite to exchange a greeting. It's funny that when you meet a foreigner in the middle of the countryside, they don't usually say hello, often they even look away, and here this is seen as very rude.
Yo miro y hablo si hace falta. Y los tímidos o desequilibrados que se adapten o se vayan de este país donde buscamos la felicidad colectiva. Un abrazo.
@@albertomartin7576 Miras a los ojos? A mi siempre se me hace incomodo mirar a la gente por la calle jajaj
@@user-ki4xw2rb8q no se mira intimidando sino con una sonrisa o simplemente una buena cara.
@@albertomartin7576 No me gusta falsear mi estado de animo la verdad
@@user-ki4xw2rb8q falsear? Es predisposición o interés, como el saludar. Pero lo b dicho.... a un país nórdico a coger depresiones. 🤣🤣🤣
as a Spanish, the issue with seasoning meat is that good meat tastes great without seasoning, except a bit of salt to increase the flavor. So if you get good meat adding seasoning sort of defeats the purpose. for other meat, specially in a bocadillo we add things like alioli or lemon juice.
That's why European kings, princes, and emperors didn't fight wars in India over spices? Because food tastes better when it's bland?
@@lalodaniels1388 Those were the brits whose food is nuclear fallout
@@alpacamale2909 the English, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and even the Spanish in the Philippines were fighting for control of local spice markets. I love Spain, but food tastes better with good spices. After all great nations fought wars over them.
@@lalodaniels1388 I still don't understand why we're having this argument over modern day tastes of food. it doesn't matter. Also every country decides how to use its spices.
@@alpacamale2909 I'm just not into food that is only marinated with salt. It's too bland for me.
I'am a Spaniard, mixed race. When I was born they were almost not foreigners/non-white people. So I was a kind of alien. Everyone looked at me like if I was an exotic animal in the zoo. However I have to say people have been 99% of the time nice with me. I've experienced a bit of racism, but very anecdotic.... Yes, people stare a lot, but it's not that much liked to race, it's just curiosity. We Spaniards are a culture not ashamed of staring other people. Look, we sit at the bar terrace just to stare people walking in front of the bar.
In the eyes of a Spaniard there's a huge difference between a USA citizen (doesn't matter if black or white) and an African. You and my father share race, but you come from very different cultures, and under the eyes of a Spaniard, they can also make the difference.
Same here, I feel you 💯. I grew up in Madrid and I was kinda like an alien round here but generally people were just curious. Anyway nowadays nobody looks at me more than anybody else and younger lads are mixed or have black friends or work and party with Dominicans, Colombians and such. I've traveled my country with my African grandmother and zero problems. Saludos.
"racism" in spain xD Next time ask people why staring instead of making up things. Maybe you did sth strage for people sorrund or you were speaking other language so curiosity is a nature from humans.
"being alien" Yeh even spanish people has the same feeling sometimes just because in spain we have a pretty mixup culture so dont wait to people not watching anything
@@leniedor733 Racism and Spain, never in the same sentence. I was lucky to be born here.
Di que sí mi arma tú si que vales ❤
@@leniedor733 no acabo de entender a quién va dirigido tu comentario.
the spanish stare on everybody. I am white and spanish and they also stare on me many times and that is anoying, but it is not because the skin color
Also in the Netherlands and Germany people stare
Been for more than half my life a guy with long hair made me feel that way for so many years. You just get used to it until it's apparently it's normal and no one gives a fuck.
If you look funny or unusual of course we gonna stare
Absolutely.
Don't get upset with people staring at you.
You have a beautiful skin indeed, i don't mean the color, i mean the texture.
I'm serious, you have lovely skin, as a spaniard i envy you for this. I mean it.
We stare at people, it's simply normal behavior, no disrespect.
❤
@@tonip3598 the texture?? Do Spaniards not have good skin textures looll?😂
I've lived in Spain for many years in three provinces.. advice, learn a few words, smile. It doesn't hurt and the smile you get back is worth it. Never had a problem. I love the respect for seniors. Imoa 🇪🇦
My German paternal grandparents always spent part of the year in Spain, where they owned a finca. My mother's parents preferred to spend the winter season in Spain. But unlike my paternal grandparents, they lived in a colony of expats where mainly Germans and, I guess, English people had their own housings, while my paternal grandparents only had Spanish neighbors. They spoke Spanish accordingly well. It never made sense to me to want to live in a country, if even temporarily, without learning the local language at least at a rudimentary level. You miss so many opportunities to get to know a country better.
The explanation about seasoning is crazy.
As a spanish citizen, we just love natural flavor in barbecues, but for the rest It is different like pincho moruno, cazón en adobo, pollo al ajillo, etc...
@@isak_art It makes sense, think that in USA most foods are heavily seasoned. In Spain is not very common for restaurants, but for example some grilled chicken doesn't have sauce by default. Or good beef steak usually doesn't have sauce.
Spanish cuisine philosophy IS based around having a few ingredients of a very high quality, without a lot of seasoning so that you admire the quality of the food itself. great video brother
Have you ever came to the north coast of Spain? If you like the scenery of the south..the north will make you go crazy. Its like a totally diferent country 😂.
Algunos norteños no conocéis el Sur. Cuando vengas vas a alucinar.
@@user-wn4kj6wo6c 🤭
@@user-wn4kj6wo6c Yo creo que los del norte vamos de vacaciones al sur mucho más que los del sur venís a norte 😅. Las dos tierras tiene su encanto, pero te aseguro que el norte no tiene desperdicio. 😊
@isabelsotocastilla4908 No lo dudo. Conozco desde Galicia al Pais vasco. He ido más de una docena de veces al Norte.
@@user-wn4kj6wo6c todos los norteños conocemos el sur, te lo aseguro. Hemos estado mil veces en mil sitios. Y sí, el norte también es una maravilla digna de verse.
I don't think football ultras are the right people to judge a country by
Why not? They’re quite common. They’re representative of the ethos of the local rabble.
Football fans are the worst kind of people
Because they are only looking for the offense.
As a Spaniard ( and Bolivian) never in my life i've heard the word "mono" used in an offensive way.
Here "mono" is cute. But the first time i heard that "insult" was from a British crackhead ( white dude that spoke English) in my neighbourhood and then in tv, in the sports time.🤷🏽♀️
That's not normal and that's why they put it on tv to condenm that.
Spain isn't racist country.
"Mono" means monkey by the way.
They are not common. Do not confuse ultras with fans. And by no means are they representative. They are literally the most extremist representation of any society.
i lived a year in Madrid, and when the landlady saw the amount of seasoning that i put in a steak, she asked me: You cant differentiate the flavor of the different cuts of meat, right?
She told me that a good steak you only cook it quick with high heat and only salt and pepper, leave it rest for 1 min and that's it. After that, I have only cooked my steaks like that.
To be honest, in Spain we're not even that special about steaks and meat. Only in the Northern area of the country they're more obsessed about getting the "perfect" steak... And yet even in restaurants around Europe they will only add salt to the steak and leave the black pepper seasoning for the customer (sometimes with a small jug of special cooked sauce).
Qiuizás sea por ser gallego, pero yo nunca le pondría pimienta a un buen filete de ternera o vaca (buey), pero si al cerdo o al pollo a la plancha. con una pizca de sal es suficiente. Tampoco le pondría limón al marisco, porque es enmascarar su sabor, y si el marisco es bueno es un pecado...
Un poco de sal y una o dos hojas de laurel en el agua, y listo para comer.
Solo le echo limón a la paella cuando no me gusta.
Aquí el sabor se lo da los calditos de producto bueno que tenemos, o la propia calidad de la carne... lo demás es disimular mala comida que podría haberse marinado en el Ganges.
@@georgezee5173 Doy fe de que en el norte sí que lo valoramos de otra forma. Pasarte con las especias de un buen chuletón de ternera es como mezclar un buen vino con cocacola. Piensa que si estás pagando por un chuletón añejo de 70€ el kilo, quieres poder saborerar la diferencia a un chuletón normal.
@@chiribitosardina6052 si lleva un año en cámara no está madurado, sino podrido...
I'm from Venezuela and living in Spain (Madrid) and I love this country from the bottom of my heart.
espero que disfrutes de estas tierrras hermano hispano!
4:15 I had that same conversation with a black girl a while ago (dominican), as she was crying because people stared at her when she came into a cafe, and i told her than that wasn't really racism, it's only because people are interested in you because you are different, but not in a bad way... like if some guy with blue hair comes into the same bar, it's kind of unique and you stare, but you really don't have any negative feeling towards him...
Spain, mostly the north of Spain (e.g. Basque Country, maybe you know San Sebastian) has if not the best, one of the best cuisines in the world. Hands down top 3 in the world.
The staring is something to get used to. When I speak to someone staring (it is cultural) it has never been a negative exchange...NEVER. I have lived here for 25 years. Racism exists, but it is nothing compared to the US.
I'd say in Spain there's more xenophobia than real racism (althoug I'm not denying there's some real racist people here, neither saying that xenophobia is not bad in itself). As he has said, people here associate the darker skin color with African illegal immigration, as we haven't had a lot of black people living here historically. Only in the last few decades have we seen a lot of immigration that has made darker skinned people become more common.
@@andressigalat602 regardless, there is REAL racism, just not as US potent. Thx...
As a spaniard in NYC It feels like y'all try too hard to look tough a lot of times, it looks really unnatural
Creo que has explicado bastante bien el contexto en el que te encuentras en España como una persona negra.
Hoy ya menos, pero no hace tanto, era realmente excepcional encontrarte a una persona negra en tu día a día. Yo tengo 55 años y soy de Murcia, creo que vi la primera persona negra por la calle a finales de los '80 (88 u 89), y era un jugador de baloncesto del equipo local. Quiero decir, que aunque ahora hay mucha más presencia de distintas nacionalidades, orígenes y etnias, aún hoy y según que sitios, puede ser que te miren con curiosidad (que no significa rechazo).
Siento que tuvieras alguna que otra situación negativa por tu tono de piel, y agradezco que lo hayas tomado como casos puntuales.
Un saludo desde Murcia.
Eso sí, lo de la comida no te lo perdono. La comida española es de cojonuda 😂.
Me imagino si se fuera a un país del Este a ver cuántos negros hay😂
I'm from Spain, Barcelona. American people are for the most part very welcome. You are respectful and you are amazing. I hope you find happiness here, amigo.
Habla por ti, yo no les tengo ningún respeto a éstos catetos...y cada vez que alguno de ellos abre la boca me da la razón....gente sin historia ni interés en el resto del mundo...
If people overly stare at you I just stare back, wink, laught at them or whatever. Im from Spain.
I think sometimes people forget how homogenized the majority of other countries are compared to the U.S. We’re a young country and most of our ancestors traveled across an ocean to get here. It’s not unreasonable to be curious about those who stand out in a crowd, as long as there aren’t any rude remarks, gestures or dirty looks.
That "homogenization" only exists in your head. friend.
We are not homogenized at all in Spain... even neighboors as galicians and asturians are quite different in their personalities, even if they share more in common between them than with people from Andalucia, who are completely different.
@@p.informatico1320I think they meant homogenized as in racially.
@@p.informatico1320tío ni cerca de lo diferentes que son un vietnamita que fue tras la guerra y un descendiente de africanos llevados a américa como esclavos en 1700
@p.informatico1320 Dude... she's talking about race. Most of us are white. It doesn't matter if you are blonde or green eyes, white is white. Even gypsies are mixed with spaniards after generations here. She's 100% right.
Yes the Spanish stare. I’m Irish living in Malaga, but it is very common in Ireland for complete strangers to come up to you in the street in Ireland and talk to you for a long period. So I start speaking nicely to the starers here in Spain and I make them into friendly neighbours. That incident on the train was blatantly racist and that official should be reported. That is a very good insight you have on seasoning in Spain relating it to the influence of Civil War. But what I would say to you from someone who adores food myself and who has lived in different parts of the world and has a unique tolerance of scotch bonnet peppers and I always double up on garlic quantity from a recipe ; the ingredients and self referential flavour and tastes of basic food in Spain and France (western European continent excluding Ireland and UK), are incredible. The meat and vegetables are as close to organic as you’ll get and crucially taste of themselves. A tomato in the Uk tastes of water. A tomato in Spain even from a supermarket tastes of the heaven, a tomato should taste like. The chickens are completely corn fed, which gives the meat a juicy and succulent natural flavouring; that if you roast it without even putting basic seasoning like salt and pepper on it, it is delicious. So the basic food and ingredients have innate natural flavourings in them, that consubstantially taste of itself. In the UK, Ireland and North America, this is not the case, only in small availability and where it is also very expensive. And therefore, cooking in Spain doesn’t often need much seasoning as in fact you end up ruining a beautiful piece of innately flavoured meat. Sorry to hear of your experience in France. By contrast, I have eaten relatively standard simple French dishes in France and thought them supreme in their eating. I wonder if you are visiting the big cities and going to the bistros near the tourist spots which would be the temptation after a tiring long haul through looking at the sites. These are often places just churning out for the tourists and are rip offs. You get the everywhere in all European cities. You must be careful to choose wisely and ask several of the local people to get a consensus of where you might go. I am familiar with a town called Perigueux in the Dordogne region of France. No much tourism, but the Beef Bourguignon there is to die for. The care and length of time spent on dishes is incredible. Do please give France another go, I guarantee you, it’ll be worth it.
About what you said on people staring at you... I'm from South East Spain and have been living in London for 10 years. I actually live in a neighbourhood where easily a third of the population is black. It's 100% normal for me to see black people every single day... And yet, everytime I go back to Spain to visit my family, since there're so few black people in my hometown, I still can't help to kind of react "surprised" when I see them. It's nothing malicious, it's just that they stand out given the context. It's the same if as a white person you visit an African country where you're the only non-Black walking around in the town, I can only guess everyone is going to look out of curiosity (even if it's just a glance) xD
What I have always done in Spain is say hello no matter what. Break the ice. Smile. Talking to older people in Spain is a joy.
@@georgezee5173 Cuando le comenté la experiencia del joven a mi esposo y también le exclamé: “a mí nadie me miró así en España!”, él me dijo porque tú te ves como ellos (españoles) y eres del mismo color de ellos y no resaltas, pero si fueras de piel oscura también te mirarían. Y me dejó pensando. Es cierto si uno resalta lo miran. Viví en Ucrania en el 96-97 y tuve la misma experiencia que él porque no soy alta, tengo los ojos castaños y el cabello castaño claro, pero no rubio y allá son casi todos súper altos, rubios y de ojos azules. Yo resaltaba y me señalaban con el dedo, hablaban de mí en mi propia cara y me fijaban la mirada sin discreción como un puñal en la piel. Pero lo entendí porque nunca habían visto a alguien diferente y, sin embargo, muchos estaban fascinados con mi físico, simplemente porque era diferente.
@@siemprestruggle9272 true, old people here are the best, theyre so sweet and sociable
Los españoles, nos miramos fijamente , nos tuteamos entre desconocidos, nos abrazamos y nos besamos. Nuestra necesidad de contacto, aunque solo sea con la mirada, es superior a nosotros, muchos abrazos y besos desde Galicia.
Me pregunto si habrá en el mundo un lugar con una actitud intermedia entre el "ni siquiera me mires ni te acerques porque me invades" de los EE. UU. y tanto beso, tanto abrazo y tanta babosería de España. Que tampoco representa ninguna afectividad real.
@@midei esa necesidad de contacto es real para todo ser humano
@mariajesusparga1936 no confundas la falta de respeto al espacio personal con calidad humana. No tiene que ver.
El individuo que se lió a gritar e insultar a los periodistas que estaban retransmitiendo en directo desde Picanya también debía de tener mucha necesidad de contacto.
bueno, si tu casa se ha inundado y hay 7 muertos en el garaje de al lado, estaras nervioso no?
Im half Spanish half American living in Spain for the last 25 years, and yea it is not a big deal to stare in Spain, it is considered normal, we do it to each other.
Europeans just stare. I am Dutch and white and people stare all the time. I hate it 😂
I'm a Spaniard and I'm with you. :D
Malagueño here! I'm sorry u had that weird situations. I love when someone loves my city, if i see you sometime on the street, let me invite you to a beer man!
The only really weird situation was the one he suffered in the train. Since he was with his wife, I think she should've reported the staff member from Renfe for his aribitrary and racially-motivated actions. I do understand the fact that that worker is facing the fact that a lot African immigrants won't pay their tickets (that's a fact that happens all around Europe, actually), but that doesn't give him the right to prejudge any situation, especially when he ends up not even acknowledging that this man had indeed bought his ticket.
Be yourself. No need to try hard to appear as a tourist to differentiate yourself from African migrants just to please more people. That in itself kinda gives Uncle Tom-ish vibes. You just be yourself and those who are truly good or bad people will show their colors.
Actually, he doesn't look much like a black African immigrant, because they tend to be thin and some of them are, at most, moderately overweight.
And if he naturally doesn't look like them, that's fine. I'm just saying there's no need to purposely go out of the way to try to not be confused with them. If he does look like them and he's minding his business it shouldn't matter because this is the 21st century and decent, well educated people shouldn't hold any prejudices.
@ , I think you're assuming too much about the rabble of southern Spain.
Hmm..so then maybe Vinicius is right..
I look Spanish and Spaniards are always staring at me😅
I don't think I'm special though, I think it's just a thing here
I'm Spanish, and I clicked on this video because the guy from the thumbnail kinda looks like Lebron James.
We all look alike
Lebron james is the guy who acted in the Matrix?
@cmolodiets LaBron James is the Power Forward and team captain of the Los Angeles Lakers NBA basketball 🏀 team.
When you identify random black men as Lebron James I automatically assume you are racist. Do what you will with that info but I’m speaking for all of us.
Yes, LeMorpheus
Hola !! Algunas acotaciones: 1) La comida en España se sazona con la propia comida, y si los ingredientes que usas tienen la calidad de los nuestros eso hace de nuestra cocina es una de las mejores del mundo, tanto en su carácter saludable como de sabor. 2) La cocina francesa, que también es mediterránea como la española y la italiana, tiene la misma característica, se sazona la comida con la comida, no sé de dónde has sacado la idea de que la comida francesa es muy especiada. 3) España nunca ha sazonado su comida del modo en el que afirmas, ni para exportarla, ni por las carestías impuestas por la guerra civil. Se usaba el aceite de oliva y la sal para conservar alimentos. Se usan hierbas aromáticas y especias, en cantidades moderadas para resaltar sabores, nunca para que lo único que aprecies cuando comes sean las especias, lo cual resulta algo bastante desagradable, y que como bien dices que decimos los españoles, hace que se pierda el sabor de lo que estás comiendo.
Un saludo.
Creo que tu comentario pasa por alto ciertos aspectos de la gastronomía española que involucran un uso considerable de especias.
1. Es cierto que la calidad de los ingredientes en España es excelente, y la cocina española se basa mucho en sabores naturales. Sin embargo, eso no significa que no se utilicen especias para enriquecer los platos. En muchas regiones, el uso de especias como el pimentón, el azafrán, el comino y la canela es bastante común. Por ejemplo, el pimentón de la Vera es fundamental en platos como el pulpo a la gallega y los embutidos ibéricos. También el azafrán es esencial en la paella, dando no solo color sino un toque de sabor único.
2. Sobre la cocina francesa, tienes razón en que no es una cocina predominantemente especiada. Sin embargo, en la cocina mediterránea (que incluye a la francesa, italiana y española), hay un balance entre hierbas y especias que complementa el sabor de los ingredientes principales. Esto varía según la región y la receta, y no debería llevarnos a generalizar.
3. Históricamente, en España se han usado especias y hierbas para conservar y mejorar los sabores, especialmente en platos de origen árabe como el cuscús o el pincho moruno, que integran comino, cilantro, y otras especias que aportan sabores intensos y complejos.
@@martfp88 Está claro que lo que un yanki considera especiado no tiene nada que ver con nuestra cocina, cuando vas a EEUU pides carne y sabe a pimienta, podría ser la peor carne del mundo que nunca lo sabrás, así con muchas otras cosas, todo tiene más sal, más azúcar y más de todo yo creo que es porque la comida es una mierda sinceramente.
Tiene las papilas gustativas atrofiadas de tanto "seasoning", no es capaz de apreciar el sabor propio de cada alimento
No estoy de acuerdo. Sobre los gustos no hay nada escrito. ¿Por qué hay este empeño en declarar siempre que la comida española es una de las mejores del mundo? A alguna gente le gusta y a otra no.
@@meatmoneymilkmonogamyequal5583, se debe a un fenómeno conocido como chavinismo o chovinismo.
As a Spain myself i consider myself looking right at spanish faces like an spaniard who appreciates spanish culture depending on the spanish perspective 🥰
bocadillo pulpo socarre empanadilla lentejas y tostada de tomate con jamon paella migas chipirones patatas asadas gazpacho
As also Spain myself I love that spanish people love the ESPAÑA of Spanish toro
Saludos desde Región de Murcia, ciudad de Murcia de una pedanía de Murcia! Saludos
Saludos desde la provincia de London, España
I'm from Málaga. We are not racists. You walk down the street and you see: gay couples without problems, many people with different skin colors.
Tampoco pasa nada por ser racista. Que quizá los españoles no lo sepáis, pero no hay más racista que un extranjero de un país tercermundista. De hecho se ríen de vosotros. Salu2
I am Spanish, but I live in the UK (I am sure it's more like America here), I have a take on your comments about people staring at you a lot.
There are a lot of black people in Spain, yes, but most of them are african immigrants that live humble lifes. They dress, speak a certain way, work on the fields and similar hard jobs, mainly socialize with other people in their situation... I think in a couple of generations it will be very different, it already is much different than it was 20 years ago.
First, Spanish people are more stary than other cultures, it is what it is. But also I am sure those people must have felt a certain dissonance as you are not the kind of person they encounter every day, different from the other black people they encounter every day. They were probably trying to understand what they see.
My wife is british, looks like a standard white british woman. When we go to Spain, to not turistic places, she gets a lot of stares as well (Because of the language she speaks, jhow she looks...)
The Lebron James part was so funny😂😅 now here me out, most of spanish people may have never seen a black american in their whole lifes. Most of them just on TV, so most people may only know Lebron, Myke Tyson or Snoop Dogg. Even to me, as a spanish guy, when traveling to places far away, people have called me Xavi, Villa or about any famous spanish football player, so I feel kind of identified with that experience😂
@@alesolano9081 it is true, when I am abroad they all call me Nacho Vidal.
I guess it's because they're both black and have shaved heads.
In my opinion, Spanish food is the best in the world, and not only that, all the renowned chefs think the same, even better, the best flavor in the world is officially Spanish acorn-fed ham.
Black in Spain? That's a modern thing. The first black person I ever saw "apart from on TV" was in 1992. Before that it was VERY rare to see any black person.
I'm watching your videos not reading subtitles to just improve or keep my english level, and they are awesome. Thank you man! Keep going the good work :)
We stare at people and say hello at people just because, it's just the way we are , even when we are in a bad mood, and don't feel like it ,we greet extrangers . If I think it out loud, maybe it makes no sense, but it's so embeded in our culture that we feel like we are making a friendly statement and letting know we are cordial in doing so, making anyone passing us feeling more secure, and as a woman I appreciate it a lot : a kind stare with a quick greet means "Hi, I am not a threat". If you catch someone staring at you, just greet them, you'll be surprised.
Like to start with well wishes for the people of Valencia, and what's happening. I'm seeing some heavy footage of people demanding the local politicians be thrown out, the police hitting people with batons. So I wish them much support in this time of grief over the losses they've suffered.
Brother man! Laying it out there, juuuuust a little bit and telling it like it is. I've seen a few different folks with youtube channels who have moved to Spain (despite those taxes!) and like you, they're pretty much happy. And I'm a 100% "get out of America and go SOMEWHERE" guy. I'm gonna bite the bullet and move to Europe (that place where you don't like the food, haha). So I'm prepared. And I really look forward to making trips to Spain SPECIFICALLY to eat meats the way they prepare it (I've seen those videos). And of course to see as many Dali places as I can.
But it's hilarious people telling you in the comments "oh it's common to stare" like you haven't BEEN there a decade, like you just arrived yesterday. There's a "curious stare" and a "hostile stare," and every single human being on earth knows the difference. Everybody. They know what it is. YOU know it is. And that's the deal. They just want to know if you're a "good one" or a "bad one." As an American, you've had a lifetime of experience. And as a person who has chosen to move there, you just have to factor it in, "Ok, I'm cool, there's gonna be a 10-15% social tax. Can I live with it, versus, being shot by a cop in Georgia or Florida? Yeah ok, I can take it. I have to have some strategies so they judge me better." But yeah, you ARE being judged. So congrats on having the gumption to leave, the TENACITY to stay, and enjoying the quality of life. Living abroad, long term, is both a challenge and great opportunity.
I live in Chile and we also have like 6% black population, most of them came from poor parts of Venezuela and Haiti a few years ago. I think I have never talked to a black person before here in Chile, but I notice people stare too. Specially in places like restaurants or hikes in national parks, Chileans stare at them for a few seconds because they basically have never seen black peoples doing those kind of activities. They are used to seeing black people working on an expensive restaurant, not eating there (probably the same happened to you). There’s no hate, racism nor bad intentions, it’s just curiosity
Spaniard here. This video made me incredibly happy, thank for speaking so well of Spain, we sure have our rough edges and times, but still, it's incredibly envigorating hearing this from someone that came from the outside.
People looking at you because you look different is not racist. As a native Spaniard, I have been stared at haaaaaaaaaaaaaard in some parts of the world where people look different than me. It's human.
Cultural maybe but not human. In the states it is considered rude and we teach our kids not to. I've been here for years and sometimes it is just annoying.
Yo tengo ansiedad social así que si la gente me mira de forma insistente puedo ponerme nervioso, jaja. Pero por lo general me sentí mejor en España, quando estudié allí, por la forma de ser de la gente, que me pareció más acogedora que en mi propio país.
If you have to teach your children about that, it's because is a natural phenomenon: check-mate. And the US is not a role model for anybody. That attitude is very similar to racism. @@christinecleavest9099
@@christinecleavest9099 well, he is not I the states anymore, so in our culture no one gives a fuck, you have funny hat? we look, even talk to you directly. You look different? we look simple. No bad connotation behind.
@@CarlosPerez-zf1uy first off it is not human it is cultural, that is what I was addressing....saying it's human is not correct. I've lived in other parts of the world where staring isn't cultural. There is a difference between looking one in the eye when talking and just staring. Also you do not get to regulate how one feels. As POC we get pretty used to telling when staring is harmless and when it has bad connotations, especially if you understand a snide remark behind. Now go have the day you deserve.
It's nice yo see you here in Málaga
Una cosa es usar especias ,que en España si se usan ,comino,pimienta, pimentón, hierbas aromáticas como tomillo, orégano,romero, hierbabuena....y otra es echar litros de ketchup a todo lo que comes...😅
Se nota que no conoce la cocina criolla.
Mucha gente fuera de España y de países mediterráneos entienden que las especias deben ser cosas entre picantes y muy picantes. Roza lo ridículo.
@@klaymor73 la cocina criolla lleva ketchup?
@@momcrash La de verdad no. Otra cosa es lo que Heinz quiera que pienses.
@@klaymor73 no conozco al tal Heinz, ¿es un criollo de criollolandia?
Afrospanish here. Welcome to my country !
As a Malaga native, I appreciate that you are so understanding about the issue of race. There are racists, yes, but the majority is not. We are just still getting used to the fact that there is a greater variety of people... until 10 years ago, the colors ranged from milky white to olive brown, now there are more chromatic nuances. And yes, we tend to stare, but even in situations that are not new. I hope to see you on Calle Larios.
You probably get more stares being different from what we are used to, but in any case staring is not rude in Spain it's just something we do by default not even thinking about it.
The Lebron James thing is more like "if you've only seen Boss Baby every movie looks like Boss Baby".
1:21 Hold on... My hometown??
Yo cuando dijo Benalmádena 🔥🔥🔥🔥
MR. Boyd, My husband and I spent one month in 2022 and one month in 2023 and loved, loved, loved Spain. My husband is African American but speaks Spanish semi fluently and I am half East Indian and speak Spanish passably. We were welcomed wherever we went. I have never experienced such friendliness from strangers in the US. We are desperately trying to move there. Healthcare is an issue as there are age limitations for private healthcare and we are past those limitations but as of this writing we have not given up. We never had problems with "staring" and everyone was so nice. We felt safer than we ever had in the US. Loved your video and it's positive comments about Spain. Cannot say enough good things about this country!!!
Beatriz Golden-Hayes,
Atlanta, GA
"the food in Spain is...ok" says an American
A good palate is cultivated from childhood, at home. Don't ask for more.
Thanks for refreshing my memories, I can attest that and many other Mediterranean mountains were under the water. I’m a geologist, used to work for Repsol and other French company, during that time had the luck to be involved in field trips and studies on those rock formations. And about ppl starring strange colors, I used to know a woman teacher, who was white like milk, she was Dominican but from Spanish relatives, and she happened to be living in Korea, so when was in a school bus, the little Korean girls would spend the whole trip staring at her like , what your are so different Wow. About racism, I say, I have lived and work in north and South America, in Europe, been in Angola for three short periods, and work and live in two Persian Gulf countries, and visited many other places along the way, found racism in many ways, at different levels and shades, but never so clear cut racism like in USA, to the point that the language, the law, the culture and some extreme ppl behavior had been more impacted by racism than most places I know.
Come to the north too. Worse weather, spectacular landscapes. The way nature surrounds everything is just magic.
They probably look at you, not for being black, but for being an afroamerican black. Good video, man!
Gran video. Gracias por compartirnos tu visión, es muy enriquecedor.
Espero que disfrutes por acá todos los años que sigas estando ^^
PD: Si piensas que la cocina española es sosa no vayas a Japón xD
As others have mentioned in the comments, don’t be put off by the staring! I'm from Malaga, born and raised, and for a while, I had to wear an eye patch. That’s when I really noticed the stares-everywhere, all the time! Haha. It’s just how people can be here; it has nothing to do with racism.
I invite you to come to Galicia, if you are a photographer I can guarantee you that the landscapes are insane. Food is amazing too, happy to hear that you enjoy living in the country
I'm from spain and I can tell you, we stare at people idk why, but we stare at everyone hahahha
wow I didn' tknow you lived in Spain, having followed you for quite some time. I'm from Valencia btw
It is a fact that a large part of the population, especially in the inland towns, if they saw a black person it was on TV or in the movies.
It has only been since the 1990s that their presence has increased due to immigration policies.
Aka rednecks or hillbillies.
The first black person I saw in real life was when I was 15 or 16 , they were a mixed family from PR who migrated to my town. It was around the 95 or 96.
If rather say immigration "emergencies" than "policies", but whatever
In Spain is really common that people stares at your doesn't matter your skin or where are you from something for example common is that when they meet someone that is familiar or that they know eachother they kiss eachother on the cheek
Love to see this type of content for a change! When studying at the conservatory of Amsterdam which is very international, I noticed the Spanish community was very close knit and a bit closed of as well. But maybe having a Spanish speaking wife helps? Also a Belgian friend told me that studying in Spain where people are more spontaneous and socially open made it much easier to make new friends than it is around these parts, so there’s that as well.. I love cultural differences, and I get that making it obvious that you’re an American by wearing tourist-drag might help with prejudice which is everywhere due to our brains not having the energy and time to always think carefully before we act, unfortunately…
There are of course individual differences in how much seasoning you prefer (my young son and father in law prefer lots of seasoning due to hyposensitivity I suspect), and cultural ones (Dutch cuisine is even less spicy than Spanish), but I also think that eating spicy food all the time makes your tastebuds less sensitive, making subtle flavours subjectively bland.
What I’m trying to say is that blandness is relative instead of absolute, and in terms of the amount of salt or sugar you consume it might be rather wise to refine your palate over time so subtleties start to be able to register and give you some healthier dopamine.. 😂
Ik denk niet van well. Onze Spaans eten is niet pittig. Een Spaanjaard.
Flauwer dan aardappelen, groente en wat licht gekruid vlees kan bijna niet hoor 😂! Maar we hebben ondertussen veel wereldkeuken invloeden natuurlijk..
Also: the only time I was in spain to try the food I was in the early stages of pregnancy, so i mostly ate the tomato-spread on a bread roll (wasn’t sure about which meats and cheeses were raw and daren’t ask because i was not supposed tell people yet) and nausea issues of course 🙃
@@Lisdodde Ik vind een broodje haring met auin lekker.
@@Lisdodde in spain every Cheese is "Raw" we Cured our Cheese or even Madurate most of them have a strong taste only Soft Cheese is most "Bland" but thats because we use it to combine with other type of food like Chorizo or Jamon
As a spaniard I can confirmate that we're not that racist , looking at eachother is normal in **EVERY** town , specifically in the smallest ones.
Here in Europe, well Spain, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium...people stare, it is normal :-)
im in malaga, the food is as good as you make it, al the fresh ingredients are there.very nice very welcoming folk.
¿Has probado el pollo al ajillo? ¿En pepitoria? ¿Al chilindrón? ¿En salsa española? ¿A la catalana? ¿Con almendras? ¿En escabeche?
Vale, ahora me ha entrado hambre ¡Estarás contento!
España es un país increíble con gente maravillosa,. El mundo es muy grande, hay que vivir donde uno es feliz.
"AMERICAN LIVING IN SPAIN .. THE BLACK VERSION".
That's the problem, seeing things from a race perspective. Forget about your race, forget about the race of others, there are only good people and people not so good or bad and they exist in each and every race in the world. Skin color doesn't matter. If someone treats you badly because of the color of your skin, they are simply an idiot. We do not create cultural and racial ghettos. And it all starts with yourself.
No, as a Black Person in Spain, it's not the same a Danish perosn. I have been here long enough to know that
@@meatmoneymilkmonogamyequal5583 The only difference is that if they look at me badly, I think it's rude. But if they look at you badly, you think it's because of your skin. And in this way, all "bad" interactions with people are always interpreted as racism. That doesn't mean there isn't racism, just that your "perspective" is biased by the importance you give to your race. Your comment is an example of what I'm saying.
And that prevents people from interacting without fear, the fear of being treated as a "black person" to you. And the fear that you will believe that we are racist, for us. Marking race, a wall is built between us.
I live all this every day, do you know? There are not only blacks and whites.
Forgive my English, it's very bad...
Decile eso a los marroquíes. Claro que se diferencia en España y claro que hay racismo. Y negar que lo hay y decir que solo hay gente buena y gente mala es intentar taparlo.
Obviamente, hay matices, y hay interacciones que se dan por diferencias culturales y se malinterpretan. Pero también hay racismo.
I hope one day it will be as you say. But not today. Not tomorrow. As sad as it is. Spaniards have a somewhat understandable inferiority complex. Some of us, a lot of us, seem to be trying to overcome it the worst way. When I say it's a shame I mean: "Es una vergüenza".
I'm planning a trip to Valencia, and your video was very enlightening. And you are ABSOLUTELY right about people that don't travel; it's such an education. Thank you for posting the video.
I think people stares at you not because you are black , it’s because the kind of black you are. I mean , we are used to see black Africans , u can identify them so fast but it’s kind of exotic to find an African American with United States culture , it’s just feels different.
But speaking of little towns from inner regions they might not have seen too much blacks, and if they are like 75 plus years they’ve grew up without a single black in their town.
So that might be the answer for most of the people that stares at you 😊
Saludos con cariño desde Madrid! I used to watch your reactions without knowing your connection with my country.
Let's point one thing, Spanish people stare at random people. It's just the way we look at people. we just do. Get use to it. And this does not go for the author of this video, but for anyone visiting this diverse Country. People here just stare. Just like that. You might consider that not polite, but you are not home, you are where you are.
Bro talking down on French Food. Hehe! WOO! 😅
5:58 That is exactly what happens to me in the US. I’m a 100% Puerto Rican, but for most American l am an illegal immigrant, most likely from Mexico. I live with constant judgement of being an illegal immigrant here in the US. I was in Spain in 2023 and I did not have one person stared at me or treat me like I did not belong with the exception of a woman from Madrid that thought I was from Venezuela and given the large number of immigrants from Venezuela in Spain, some Spaniards don’t like them.
First time I hear about Spaniards not liking Venezualans... We usually welcome those running away from their pseudo-dictatorship. Same with Cubans that fled their regime.
Nevermind. Some spaniards disklike even ourselves.
@@georgezee5173 That was my experience with that women. I’m sure many Spaniards don’t have issues with immigrants but others do. This woman treated me contemptuously as if I was of lesser value. Apart from her, Andalusians and Extremadurans were very nice to me. Sorry if I offended you. I was very happy to be in Spain and, to be honest, I love Spain. I can’t wait to go back.
@@TheSimmpleTruth I'm not offended, just surprised, since it's the first time ever I read about a Spaniard having an issue with someone just for being specifically from Venezuela (well, believing so, in this case), when it's usually the other way around: we perceive them as people that are fleeing from a tyrannical government and they don't bring trouble to our country (unlike immigrants from other nationalities). If you said that they thought you were Dominican then I could see some Spanish people prejudging you, since unfortunately we've received lots of Dominican gangs in the past couple of decades, and those are known for being extremely violent (though they are usually violent fighting each other). Anyway... If it makes you feel better, I've been treated badly and with contempt when visiting certain places of Spain (my own country!) where some people are regional nationalists and are full of hatred towards anything that smells Spanish. Unfortunately there're stup1d A-holes everywhere...
Welcome brother ❤
I live in a working class neighbourhood of madrid where i am one of the only pale ginger northern europeans. They stare at me too. But it is because they are surprised to see me here more than anything.
Welcome brother🤝
How could I possibly describe this video? It's... INTRIGUING
I am from a veeeery small town and it took me like... 25 years to see a black person for the first time, until that moment only saw super actors or athletes from tv. I had to force myself not to look because I didn't want to make you feel uncomfortable but omg i love the black skin 😂💗
You're right! For instance, us mexicans, when we see a person from the United States in one of our resorts, we don't see color. You're all "gringos" to us 😂. You guys don't realize how privileged you are compared to people from other countries. As a person that doesn't share the same sensibilities in terms of race as someone born in the US, it's sometimes hard to understand why race is so important over there. But I'm speaking entirely out of ignorance, I don't mean to minimize anyone's struggles.
Eso es porque hispano se es independientemente del color y eso lo entendemos bien los hispanos. Al final lo que hace que te comportes de una forma u otra es tu cultura. Busca el video del señor que salva las albondigas de su mujer ante una inundacion. El tio ese es mas andaluz (España)que yo y es negro
@@josemariaruizdevelascoaugu8886 ¿Albóndigas? Creo que es lo más surrealista que he oído este mes. 🤣
@@josemariaruizdevelascoaugu8886 Un verdadero Héroe español. Doy Fe
How nice is it of Lebron James to dedicate some time to tell us his experience with Spanish people.
Keep on balling, man! 🏀
About people staring at you, I'd like to try to excuse it on Franco's fascism. My mom didn't even know that black people existed for such a long time in her life even after franco died that the first time she saw one she pointed and asked "why are you black"
Córdoba, 1969, íbamos por un parque y nos cruzamos con un chico negro. Mi madre le dijo si podía hacerle una foto junto a mis hermanas pequeñas. Todavía conservo la foto y cuando la enseño siempre nos reímos. Por aquel entonces mi madre solo había visto personas negras en las películas de Tarzán y a Sidney Poitiers, de quien decía que era guapísimo.
Si crees que no había negros por Tito Paco no los dejaba entrar tienes 9 años, asi que colacao y a la cama que es tarde.
@@ProteoEuthismos Bro yo cuento lo que me dijo y vivió mi madre. Claramente no vivió en todos los pueblos de España
@@thegoat9219 No lo digo por eso. Digo que utilizas la Figura de Paquito y el fascismo para una dinámica social que estaba en Italia y en la cosmopolita Londres. Londres ahora mismo en un 36% caucásica. No lo era así en los 60.
Great stories Boyd, and you did it with a smile on your face! I’m an American who is descendant of Spaniards. I’ve never been there. I gotta go now more than ever. By the way, the way you talk about food makes take a shot as to where in the US you might be from, Louisiana with no hint of any kind of Louisiana accent. 🤔
Indeed there are black people in Spain but their numbers are still pretty low compared with the main ethnicity or even other minorities.
During the spanish Christmas tradition called Cavalcade of the Three Wise Men there have been cases of some local authorities having difficulties to find black men to portray the black king Balthazar (one of the Three Kings) and relying in white actors painting themselves black to portray him. Although this kind of things are starting to be called out by modern media, they arent seen as something extremely bad as it would have been if it took place in the US because most members of spanish society dont perceive they are done with malicious intent or ill will towards black people. They just accept it happened, ask them not to do it again and move on.
Also you should say that ❤Baltasar the black king is more loved than Santa, sorry fatty, but the black king is the one everybody loves because he is the coolest 😎 of the 3 kings or Wise men 😅
That is so true. I'm from Barcelona, and of course there is going to be bad people, crazy people, racist people... spread around the world. But I appreciate so much that people like this man see through all of that mess, and speaks firmly with his truest life experience.
Thank you so much! The people we like in Spain, is people with moral values, who loves this country and wants to integrate.
Therefore, ¡bienvenido a España!
Un fuerte abrazo desde Barcelona!❤
Don't worry, here in Spain, people have a habit of staring at everyone. Don't think to much about it✌🏻
Im from a little town nearly to Antequera, welcome to Málaga!!!
There have always been Africans in Spain. I'm Spanish with trace amounts of Congolese/Angolan, very proud of that fact. I have some Danish, not so interesting.
Si lo dices del reves suena racista. 🤪
@ Un porcentaje negro aunque parezco guiri me párese guapo.
To be fair. Some parts of Spain are in Africa.
@@LuDa-lf1xd Canarias. Yes.
@@padredemishijos12 La mezcla siempre es guapa.
Hey lad, have u been in Nerja? There’s a massive geological cave. East Malaga. Check that out! Bless
Yup, Fundación Cueva de Nerja
Nordic Europeans have the same feeling when they come to Spain that everybody stares and looks at them. And they're quite strict about their personal space so it's shocking for them.
I guess we're like that, I never noticed but that's something we do.
Also, even super white people get "nicknames" in Spain. I used to work every summer with a Lithuanian guy who was an amazing waiter who was loved by all the regulars, and most of them would call him "Rubio" (blonde) haha
Heeeyyy, welcome to my country!!! Thank for your words, have you a nice day!
PD: I'm from Málaga but living in the north of Spain.
😂 I’d argue that the strategy of portraying yourself as a tourist might actually make it worse. Especially when folks are notorious for trying to extort more money from perceived outsiders.
Glad to see someone was thinking of that as well!
@@davidribeiro1064 yep. The outsider tax is legit
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Hey! Thanks for this video, it is nice to see how you live your time in Spain. I also loved to hear your thoughts on food because most people don't say that (and you are right, a lot of people don't season at all). Also, I don't know how good or bad your Spanish comprehension might be, but if you are learning or you are good at it, there's a podcast "No hay negros en el Tibet" (title based on the song with the same name in English) and it's three black Spaniards talking about how it is to be black and Spanish in Spain. In case you are curious (they are superinteresting people and fun to listen to)
I enjoy your video so much. Just felt the urge give you feedback on the racial issue. Being from America, for you, it's normal and 100% right to suspect of ANY white person to be racist, and you might be confused here sometimes 😃, but I tell you that spaniards are different. Many japanese tourists have anxiety attacks in Spain, because they are not used to so much unsolicited eye contact, and long stares, though they don't mean any harm or disrespect. Society is very extrovert and communitarian, people seem too "interested" in everyone else in a, sometimes, too candid way. I went to a small village in a non touristic area with a black british friend, and a group of children were behind us all the time, asking questions to my friend, like, are you an NBA player?, and teenage girls secreaming to us guapos! old ladies stopping us to touch my friend, holding his hand, some guy invited us to ham and wine in his cellar with his family and friends, and my friend was delighted, everyone happy with us, excited trying to translate their jokes to him. In the short distance, he never felt the classic condescendent paternalistic treatment he felt sometimes from white british people, as he said to me. There's some background to this. Spain had slavery outlawed from the 15th century, after they finish reonquista from the moors, that were from arab and bereber origin, and obviously, had african slaves. Even christian spaniards captured in battles by the moors were sold as slaves, and since it was against the scriptures and practiced by "the infidels", it was banned. When they discovered America, they used to mix with locals in South America from day one, marrying chieftain's daughters, to gain legitimacy, that's how they build their empire, not with brutal conquest as the British did. Well, far from Europe, some bad things may had happened, but they didn't go unpunished. Many conquistadors were captured and hanged in Spain after some chieftain plead to the king for justice on an atrocity commited. You cannot compare the spanish empire, where all "natives" were citizens and subjects, to the brutal apartheid regime of British, or French colonialism. Just look at the difference between Haiti and Dominican Republic, both share the same island, one former french slave colony, the other, former spanish province, both with black majority population. The social cohesion, low crime, and economic development of the dominicans, and its gdp per capita, is light years ahead of that of the haitians. You really spot on about the pathological obssesion with race in America, it's weird, and needs to go. I'm happy for you that you came here and found your place among our people. Keep posting man! cheers
Great message!!