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.
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.
posted by llavorsi at 1:35 AM
3 Comments:
Hi Llavorsi,
In general I agree with your post. I think that certainly this is the image that other people have about us: mean, hard-workers... Although I see your point when you explain that stereotypes it's not true for all the people, I think that here we have a lot of hard-workers, efficient and serious. On the other hand, we have some of the better comedians in Spain.
See you.
A few things to have a look at..
You say:
-there are quite comedians who are
-it does not that we are stingy
-confortably (spell check!!!)
I'd say:
-there are quite a few comedians who are...
-it does not mean that we are stingy
Thanks for correcting.
Will look forward to reading your new writings.
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