stereotypes

About the Catalans, everybody thinks that we are mean and we spend all the day working and we never laugh. People think we are efficient, disciplined and self-confident, even arrogant. They say that we look down on other nationalities and we want to be independent.
Certainly, we are hard-working, efficient and serious, but we also like meeting friends at the weekends and we have an ironic sense of humour, in fact, there are quite comedians who are Catalans.
Although we like saving, it does not that we are stingy, so we like travelling a lot and living confortably. It is not true that we look down on other nationalities, in Catalonia there are more people from other countries than Catalans and this is not a problem.
Personally I think we are very touchy about our language and culture, and a bit, only a bit, arrogant. However, we are sensitive and we are very good at business.
Finally, I have to say that I do not believe in setereotypes, so there are many factors that can influence on people's personality.