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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 7398092" data-attributes="member: 6802378">This matter about stereotypes makes me remember a blockbuster Spanish comedy "Ocho apellidos vascos" (= Eight Basque surnames), but with the tittle "Spanish affair" in other countries. It is the story of boy meets girls, but he is Andalucian (region of South and maybe closest one to tipically Spanish stereotypes) and she is Basque, from Euskadi, north region next to French frontier. Usually we don't like our cinema because is boring propaganda, but this movie was a total success, a comedy about our stereotypes.   Do I feel offended by the vision of Spain in that episode of the Simpsons, with that character, Eduardo Barcelona? I know nobody with that surname, and Spanish are Caucasian like French and Italians, and only in Andalucia, the south region, you could find people with darker skin. 8 wifes and 200 children? We aren't rabbits, and now we are suffering a serious demographic crysys. Enough Spanish children aren't born to pay olders pensions'. But this doesn't offend me, but that chapter when Spanish soccer players paid to win a match. That happened after Spain won the soccer world cup. It was like a slap in the face, it was saying we didn't win because we were the best players, but because this time we paid enough and then our victory had no merit.</blockquote>