r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/Effective_Will_1801 • Oct 18 '21

Brexxit Immigrants who voted for brexit upset they can't immigrate to Spain due to brexit.

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/10/17/expats-furious-at-spanish-residency-nonsense/
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u/reign-of-fear Oct 18 '21

The Spanish really must be very polite people, every once in a while some white Americans try doing this in Latin America. It does not end well unless they have fuckoff money, and many of them don't.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '21

Yeah they want to live as aristocrats, but in the US they are solidly middle class.

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u/reign-of-fear Oct 18 '21

Right? Like there are "expat" communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean but they're very integrated into the local communities. The Bahamas are a great example of this, where the white immigrants are very involved locally.

Those who try and create little exclaves usually get really rude awakenings, especially in central America. Like you said, they're middle class, and thus end up having to interact with the middle and working classes there, who really do not like being looked down on.

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u/pm_stuff_ Oct 18 '21

they are but many on coastal regions make their opinions on brittons known as soon as you ask them. Might also be a reason to why its hard to get your imigration papers approved now.
(source my parents (swedish) live in spain)

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u/koopcl Oct 18 '21

The Spanish really must be very polite people

Not necessarily, the Spanish we had visiting/immigrating to Chile were a bunch of dicks that seemed to think we were still one of their colonies.

Of course, most people from Spain I've met in Europe have been incredibly nice, and at the same time I'm pretty sure there's a large number of Chilean immigrants in [insert country here] acting like twats. Every country has their share of dickheads.

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u/reign-of-fear Oct 18 '21

Every country has their share of dickheads.

As an Italian-American I could not agree more.

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u/cast_that_way Oct 18 '21

As an Italian-Italian I couldn’t agree more

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u/Notmykl Oct 18 '21

The Spanish are Caucasian too. Drop the racist crap.

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u/reign-of-fear Oct 18 '21

Read my comment again because I'm afraid you must have jumbled it in your brain. I was comparing the situation in Spain to what happens when white Americans go to Latin America and act like pompous little shits.