Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "What Do You Think About British People? | Easy Spanish 253" video.
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@8:03 This guy slightly contradicts himself here from what he said earlier in the episode when he was praising Brits for having a cultural openness he was attracted to; here he appears to be falling into that trap of looking at the Brits in Spain as the stereotypical blinkered, monocultural, monolingual dolts that infest the Costas. They are to be abhorred for their blithe delusion that they are somehow ‘it’ with their fish & chips, tatty tattoos & weak beer. Believe it or not, there are Brits who go to the ‘other Spain’; the Spain where life is recognisably Spanish & not some raggedy British enclave full of morons. It’s no accident that the 2 most ‘British’ places in Spain are also the 2 most physically & culturally repulsive in the whole of the country: Benidorm & Gibraltar (yes, I realise Gibraltar isn’t really in Spain, but you know what I mean). They are also the most deeply boring places for the reasons quoted above & it always astonished me that any self-respecting native Spaniard ever has anything to do with either place. For example, I’m told that there are actually Spanish people who go to Benidorm for a holiday?! Go figure. One last thing to say on all this & it’s pertinent: of all the Spaniards that come to live in the UK I’ve never met one who didn’t speak virtually perfect English & a few other languages besides. This cannot be said for the Bulldog British cretins on the Costas. They never learned Spanish & have no intention of doing so. And why? Well, they’re often thick, which doesn’t help, but also quite simply they don’t have to as they know they can get by with their poorly-phrased English which they never learned properly in the first place.
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