Sorry, I should´ve given you some warning before you saw the picture. But I wanted to show you how extremism is encouraged in some circles here. When a bottle of wine with a long-dead dictator´s face on it, was produced to celebrate New Year, the group didn´t even bat an eyelid. On another occasion a photo is produced with a friend in (presumably fake) military uniform, doing a Nazi salute, in front of the old Fascist Spanish flag, and the group think it´s "gracioso" ("funny"). Absolute intolerance of the nationalist viewpoint of a separate Basque Country and Catalonia, absolute intolerance of literally anything that is not Spain, Spanish and Catholic....well, it´s a point of view I suppose. I cannot abide it. These people aren´t living in today´s multi-cultural, global world. Why are Spanish people asked by my people when they go to UK about their culture, but after 5 years here, these people don´t know the first thing about me, my family and friends, my country, my beliefs.
What makes these people as they are? Peer pressure,sure. But is that all ? There is something hardwired into their head which means they don´t even listen to other points of view. So I´d include a form of brainwashing too. And the fact that in most cases they don´t go out of their own country (and when they do, they don´t learn about where they go), so they only see their own. This last one is a vicious circle I suppose, as the reverse corollary is true too.
It´s all very sad.
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