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<blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 7738360" data-attributes="member: 6802378"><p>Yes, the black legend is all those horrible things said about Spanish empire and the Catholic Church. You can't imagine how strong is the anti-patriotic feeling in the Spanish society. Showing pride about the past is a taboo in Spain. The guilty feeling is very strong. Can you imagine? Somebody dared to say we should apologize the Muslims for the Spanish Reconquest. In December 2017, Victor Lainez, a 55 years old Spanish, was beaten to death, because he had the Spanish flag in his braces. Can you believe it? This happened really, and you can read it in some English-languange news. I don't lie. Here the patriotism is showed like something by nostalgics for Franco's dictatorship. I would dare to say Spain is the most self-critical in the world, no folk hate their own past like us. But in the last years a reaction starts to happen. The Spanish society is already getting sick of the "hispanophobia", a rebellion againts that guilty feeling for the past. </p><p></p><p>In Spain we have a saying "<em>Cuando veas las barbas de tu vecino secar, pon las tuyas a secar</em>" (= When you see your neighbor's beard drying, put yours to soak). It means you must taking notice, paying attetion, about what happens to you, because you could suffer the same situtation. That antipatriotism may happens also in America, both, Northamerica and Hispanoamerica. Why? A people without proud is more sumussive. Do remember Napoleon couldn't imagine he would lose the control of Latinoamerica because the Spanish common people rebelled, ( el dos de Mayo uprising). Napoleon's soldiers had to enter each house in the town to fight againts the civilians. They weren't used to this, because the rest of Europe wasn't so indomitable. Spain was the beginning of the end of Napoleon's world empire. They don't forgive us it. </p><p></p><p>And in the last years I am watching in social nets a new pro-Hispanist movement who questions the independence of Hispanoamerica. Was that freedom when they become slaves by the doubts with English banks who finance the rebellion, to be controlled by the mason lodges? </p><p></p><p>About the past, yes, sometimes some horrible things happened, but now it is the time to say that Spain wasn't the evil empire, but really we were the first empire who tried to be not so evil. We weren't the worst ones at all, only worse reputation by fault of enemy propaganda. That discredit has been a punishment againts Spain because we were the best ally of Catholic Church. We have to take care with the fiction, not only Historical novels and Hollywood films, but also with the sci-fi and fantasy fiction because theses could be used to encourage false stereotipes. (Do you rembember Castilla, from the rpg "the 7th Sea"? Now let's imagine in that settin the main antagonist is the empire of the crescent empire, the equivalent to Otoman empire, and (from real life) Turkishs start to complain about that negative image. Can you get an idea?). Do you remember the old far-west movies? Now lot of them aren't politically correct because the Northeamerican indigenous are the bad guys. </p><p></p><p>* OK, we shouldn't talk about political matters, but we can talk about, for example, the action-movie "Assasin Creed" and the real historical facts weren't as the moviel tells (the Muslim king Muley Hacen was who declared war to Catholic kings). We also can say "Superman: Red son" had been totally different if the writter was been Ayn Rand and no Mark Millar.</p><p></p><p>* About the background: why not adding more "visitors"? Russia and Morocco kingdom, for example.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LuisCarlos17f, post: 7738360, member: 6802378"] Yes, the black legend is all those horrible things said about Spanish empire and the Catholic Church. You can't imagine how strong is the anti-patriotic feeling in the Spanish society. Showing pride about the past is a taboo in Spain. The guilty feeling is very strong. Can you imagine? Somebody dared to say we should apologize the Muslims for the Spanish Reconquest. In December 2017, Victor Lainez, a 55 years old Spanish, was beaten to death, because he had the Spanish flag in his braces. Can you believe it? This happened really, and you can read it in some English-languange news. I don't lie. Here the patriotism is showed like something by nostalgics for Franco's dictatorship. I would dare to say Spain is the most self-critical in the world, no folk hate their own past like us. But in the last years a reaction starts to happen. The Spanish society is already getting sick of the "hispanophobia", a rebellion againts that guilty feeling for the past. In Spain we have a saying "[I]Cuando veas las barbas de tu vecino secar, pon las tuyas a secar[/I]" (= When you see your neighbor's beard drying, put yours to soak). It means you must taking notice, paying attetion, about what happens to you, because you could suffer the same situtation. That antipatriotism may happens also in America, both, Northamerica and Hispanoamerica. Why? A people without proud is more sumussive. Do remember Napoleon couldn't imagine he would lose the control of Latinoamerica because the Spanish common people rebelled, ( el dos de Mayo uprising). Napoleon's soldiers had to enter each house in the town to fight againts the civilians. They weren't used to this, because the rest of Europe wasn't so indomitable. Spain was the beginning of the end of Napoleon's world empire. They don't forgive us it. And in the last years I am watching in social nets a new pro-Hispanist movement who questions the independence of Hispanoamerica. Was that freedom when they become slaves by the doubts with English banks who finance the rebellion, to be controlled by the mason lodges? About the past, yes, sometimes some horrible things happened, but now it is the time to say that Spain wasn't the evil empire, but really we were the first empire who tried to be not so evil. We weren't the worst ones at all, only worse reputation by fault of enemy propaganda. That discredit has been a punishment againts Spain because we were the best ally of Catholic Church. We have to take care with the fiction, not only Historical novels and Hollywood films, but also with the sci-fi and fantasy fiction because theses could be used to encourage false stereotipes. (Do you rembember Castilla, from the rpg "the 7th Sea"? Now let's imagine in that settin the main antagonist is the empire of the crescent empire, the equivalent to Otoman empire, and (from real life) Turkishs start to complain about that negative image. Can you get an idea?). Do you remember the old far-west movies? Now lot of them aren't politically correct because the Northeamerican indigenous are the bad guys. * OK, we shouldn't talk about political matters, but we can talk about, for example, the action-movie "Assasin Creed" and the real historical facts weren't as the moviel tells (the Muslim king Muley Hacen was who declared war to Catholic kings). We also can say "Superman: Red son" had been totally different if the writter was been Ayn Rand and no Mark Millar. * About the background: why not adding more "visitors"? Russia and Morocco kingdom, for example. [/QUOTE]
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