My opinion of them is extremely negative.
Look up what they did to Moroccans in the North and what they did to Canary Islands. Complete genocide, they have colonies in the Maghreb to this day as well. Also complete hypocrite who expelled all their Muslims/Arabs along with Jews but are only allowing Jews to have a right to return apologizing for the Reconquista but all the North Africans are left out, when it was them who built that civilization. They can't even give back Ceuta and Melilla while crying about the Brits in Gibraltar.
They have done horrible things to African and Native Americans, crimes against a group of people that has rarely if ever been matched in human history
I find the civilizations contribution to the culture and human civilization to be much lower than what their grip extended.
Very fascist in mistreating their own ethnic minorities (Catalonians, Galicians and Basques) and have a similar enemy mentality to the entire Arab world to this day
They're an unproductive welfare economy where the people enjoy a standard of living much higher than they contribute, with high unemployment. Living from EU subsides and tourism. I didn't think it was very clean either.
I also read it is a country with the highest amount of infidelity and promiscuity. Such loose morals are not attractive to me either
Also the language in Spain sucks compared to how the Latinos speak it, I found the food to not be very good, the Spanish Empire was even more brutal than the English one, the style/aesthetic doesn't please me, etc. the only positive thing I can say about it is that their descendant countries in the New World have produced very vibrant and diverse locales, only possible because of their abandonment of the more problematic Spanish influence
It's one of the worst European countries for sure, I'm just glad the based Brits treat it how it should be treated.
I like even Fr*nce more tbh.
70 posts and 9 image replies omitted.>>2264409No they didn't retard. They were in the same "racist" a medieval person was, discriminating against non-Christians and pagans in particular. In fact, it was a Spanish monk, Bartolomé de Las Casas, who first argued for the dignity of the indigenous even when they were not Christian.
When the population of the Americas became largely Christian, Anglos couldn't justify slavery and racism on religious grounds anymore, hence they came up with "scientific racism", Lamarcke, skull-measuring etc. - that's what we understand as modern racism.
>>2265208nationalism should be a bannable offense.
everytime the word "historically progressive" is used in this website it literally just means "my genocidal empire is le better than your genocidal empire because… aesthetics!" imagine being this retarded and illiterate.
>>2263909Go ask the citizens of Ceuta and Melilla if they want to be Moroccan or Spanish. They're Spanish cities, not colonies. Go and study the difference.
What a shitty thread. I had to check three times if I was in /pol/ or /leftypol/.
>>2265315Settler colonizer opinion doesn't matter
Your point is like >go ask israelis if they want to be palestinians
>>2265346Historically they and the portuguese invaded, exterminated most of the native moorish population and established a bunch of settler colonizers
Even then, the settlers were a minority up until the 50s when Franco sent a bunch of squatters to these enclaves to make them castillian majority
By all means is literally the same crap as Israel and makes the current Spanish bravado against Israel complete hipocrisy
>>2265381>makes the current Spanish bravado against Israel complete hipocrisynot really, because they're not involved in active genocide anymore. Its children of children of children at this point, the guys living there arent responsible, and they havent an apartheid situation either afaik.
Its one of the great evil of colonizations that it creates awful situation and long term inequalities that are eventually inherited by innocent people. Although young israelis are apparently happy to become murderous criminal in turn to defend their position.
>>2265816Based on being genocidal settler colonizers and the inventors of apartheid they surely are
>>2265604Again, reported for racism
>>2265835>Abortion>Human sacrificeCrypto-/pol/ uyghur image.
Should have used cartel executions instead, it would be even more of a salt rub in racist white peoples wounds.
>>2265835As the other post put it, that pic is literally a selfown born of the cesspits of a poltard mind.
Anyway, the spanish empire is like the roman empire, and all empires really.
Reaaaaaaally evil. end of thread.
And the spanish should have won in invading England and converting Japan, millions lives would have been gained, then lost in some other way but Nanking and all of those demised in the japanese empire as we know it would not have happened. And anime would not have happened >>2265816lol, no. they were so horrible, their ex-colonies have 0 respect for them.
I don't know one single colony that still would like to be part of spain. even the fucking US has Liberia's capital named Monrovia for the amusement of James Monroe, you get nothing close to that in the spanish ex-colonies.
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