Stereotypes
Like all people, the Catalans also they have hanged us some labels for describing our character.
The stereotype of people from my country is not different from other people around the world. Sometimes our way of being seems like that of other people. For example the Catalans are mean like Scottish people *.
In a first contact the Catalans can seem excessively serious. Although we are Mediterranean people like Andalusians, we don’t have a spontaneous sense of humour like them.
However, the Catalan have always been enterprising businessman and with a great industrial culture. The Industrial Revolution had been developed in Catalonia, not in the rest of Spain. Maybe this short sentence “anar per feina” can be interpreted as that Catalan people don’t like wasting their time.
But the most famous or popular/unpopular stereotype is that we are stingy. There are some sentence that describe this: “ if the bag sounds....” or “ “to stretch the arm more than the sleeve” ….” I don’t know if in English there are similar ones.
Nowadays, there are a lot of different people from different countries, so in some years the Catalans will be a mixture. Then they will be different, neither better, nor worse.
(*I heard that Scottish people are mean people in an English film called Saving Grace. Spanish title El jardin de la alegria.)
The stereotype of people from my country is not different from other people around the world. Sometimes our way of being seems like that of other people. For example the Catalans are mean like Scottish people *.
In a first contact the Catalans can seem excessively serious. Although we are Mediterranean people like Andalusians, we don’t have a spontaneous sense of humour like them.
However, the Catalan have always been enterprising businessman and with a great industrial culture. The Industrial Revolution had been developed in Catalonia, not in the rest of Spain. Maybe this short sentence “anar per feina” can be interpreted as that Catalan people don’t like wasting their time.
But the most famous or popular/unpopular stereotype is that we are stingy. There are some sentence that describe this: “ if the bag sounds....” or “ “to stretch the arm more than the sleeve” ….” I don’t know if in English there are similar ones.
Nowadays, there are a lot of different people from different countries, so in some years the Catalans will be a mixture. Then they will be different, neither better, nor worse.
(*I heard that Scottish people are mean people in an English film called Saving Grace. Spanish title El jardin de la alegria.)
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