Why? I've only met five Spaniards in Texas, and a couple were at the SHOT show.Two were hot blonde chicks, one from Madrid and one from Barcelona.
I've never been in a restaurant here that served tapas or offered Spanish wines, other than Harvey's Bristol Cream sherry. To find fino or oloroso sherry, you have to look for the right liquor store. You can find Torres brand wines.
Many people here aren't sure that "Spanish" isn't just a polite way to describe Mexicans. I kid you not, I knew a woman who was engaged to a man from Spain. He was from Malaga, and on a clear ay, may have been able to look over the ocean with a binocular and see North Africa.
BUT HIS FIANCEE ASKED ME (OUT OF HIS HEARING ) WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS BETWEEN MEXICANS AND SPANIARDS !
This woman was about sixteen frijoles short of a full taco and eventually committed suicide via narcotics. Fortunately, the Spaniard caught on to what she was like and broke off the engagement.
I'd say more about the matter, but would run afoul of the Rules. Just bear in mind that Spaniards are Europeans. To learn what Mexicians were until the fiist mestizo was born to Mallinali (Dona Marina) and Hernan Cortes, read Bernal Diaz del Castilo's book, "A History of the Conquest of Mexico." Been in print since the 1500's.
This is one of the most incredible books ever written, by a member of the Cortes expedition.
Additionaly, find and view the movie, "Captain From Castile", made in 1947 and starring Tyrone Powers, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, and Jay Silverheels. It has some of what you'll find in that book and in scenes where Mallinali interprets for Cortes, you'll hear spoken Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs. You'll probably hear that nowhere else.
I was shown clips of the film in Latin American History class in HS and I bought the DVD a few years ago.
To see Spaniards iN a REALLY GOOD movie, view, "Juana la Loca." Winner of Best Foreign Film at the Oscars the year it appeared, it has a superb cast. In Castilian Spanish with English or French subtitles, it is a sweeping historic epic, with lavish scenes of the Spanih court at Castile and elsewhere and regal surroundigs of that day.
One woman in this is a Moorish (Arab) princess, but the rest are Spaniards. There are no Mexicans. Your wife will like this, too. Read about it on Wiki, etc. I lack time to describe it here.
I'm always deeply embarrased to find Americans who cannot tell a Mexican from a Spaniard. These resources will help and will entertain, terrificly.
Bear in mind that not everyone from South of our border is a Mexican. The wife of the director of small arms production in Argentina complained to me that most here consider everyone from down there to be " just some kind of Mexican." What she said about that cannot be repeated here, but she was right.
BTW, bear in mind that at the time of the Conquest, Tenotchtitlan was as big or larger than Venice and like that city, had complex waterways. It was no small civilization that Cortes and his Tlaxcalan allies defeated, and it took longer and was harder than modern leftist academics usually infer.
BTW, Texas looks like Mexico because until 1836, it WAS part of Mexico!
BTW, our word "coyote" is derived from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word,"coyotl".
