Tag Archives: Spain
Mexican Spanish
‘Mexican Spanish is permeated by indigenous languages’
https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-08-13/mexican-spanish-is-permeated-by-indigenous-languages.html
Many Mexicans still feel that Spanish is an imposed language, and do not feel that this is their language
What came to Mexico was Spanish with many dialects influenced by Andalusia and the Caribbean
Because the Habsburgs always had a policy of separating the Indian villages from the Spanish villages. Divide and conquer. Separate them and then each one is in their corner and I can control them better. But in that separation, there was a great respect for their customs, legislation and indigenous ways of life. The Habsburg dynasty respected the separation of Indian villages and they used intermediaries. Documents show that they were Spanish-speaking Indians, in the sense that they spoke both languages. They spoke Zapotec and Spanish, for example.
When the Bourbons ascended the Spanish throne, they totally centralized the administration. They eliminated the separation of indigenous towns and Spanish towns, and of course imposed Spanish. Remember that they had been living together for 200 years, and that the Indians had also adopted Spanish because it was more fluid and faster for them to communicate in Spanish than to communicate in Nahuatl and to look for an interpreter. That was not because of ‘how nice it sounds.’ It was purely for survival.
Tourists and Refugees
Tourists and Refugees Cross Paths on Gran Canaria
Gran Canaria’s tourism industry is doing all it can to survive the coronavirus. Some luxury hotels are even hosting the increasing numbers of migrants arriving from across the ocean. It is a clash of two worlds.
Omar arrived in the port of Arguineguín, located 16 kilometers west of Playa del Inglés, three weeks ago after spending three days on the Atlantic. The Coast Guard pulled him out of the sea along with 22 others. More than 8,000 people like Omar arrived in the Canary Islands in November alone, part of the more than 20,000 for the whole year.
“We all have to die somewhere,” Omar says, adding that he wasn’t afraid during the journey. Once he arrived, he was given a black sweatsuit, the uniform of the new arrivals. He immediately changed, throwing his old clothes into the trash. He then spent a week sleeping on the ground with no running water. His clothes were constantly damp, there was never enough food and, he says, the lines in front of the few portable toilets took forever.
pay off to curb irregular immigration
https://elpais.com/elpais/2019/07/19/inenglish/1563521682_999175.html
The funding is on top of the €140 million the EU has pledged to provide the North African country
My note: as described in https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt7v70q
Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy
HONS 221 Migration and Refugees in a Globalized World
Turkey and some of the North African countries will be asking to exhort money to keep immigrants away from Europe
Far-right Vox Instagram
How Spain’s far-right Vox created a winning social media strategy
The anti-immigration party has more followers on Instagram than any other political group in the country
https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/12/19/inenglish/1545234565_871352.html
Traffic to Vox’s website and social media platforms has soared following the recent elections in Andalusia, where the far-right party garnered 10.97% of the votes and 12 seats in the regional parliament.
There are three individuals between the ages of 23 and 26 who are largely responsible for the fact that Vox’s Twitter, Facebook and particularly Instagram accounts have started attracting huge numbers: a journalist, a sociologist and a broadcast studies undergraduate who were hired between 2016 and 2018 to pump up the party’s online profile. “There’s no longer any trust in the press,” says Manuel Mariscal, head of the party’s online accounts. “We are turning into our own communications channel.”
This is nothing new. It is a tried-and-tested populist strategy that proved effective in getting Donald Trump, Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Italy’s Matteo Salvini into power.