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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Easy mistake, isn't it? Spain is next door.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

From Spain, we don't get neither good winds nor good weddings...

It's tiresome. We, as a nation, exist for longer. Our language, culture, traditions, manerisms, etc, are different. We are not a part of Spain and we are not their bretheren, unlike many like to tell.

Our first king mother was a spanish woman and he decided to leave home by waging war on his mother, kill her lover and burn the lands where they lived.

So, it is understandable we dislike to be overlooked or mistaken as spanish