THIS IS SPAIN

THIS IS SPAIN

A example of how the world sees Spain is easy to find by watching how TV shows portrays us.

Series such as ‘How I Met Your Mother’, ‘Lost’, ‘CSI’ or ‘The Unit’ describes Spain as a place where everybody is loud and impolite.

They also commit serious mistakes about our culture, such as people speaking Mexican instead of Spanish, or wearing typical clothes that aren’t ours.

The sitcom ‘How I Met Your Mother’ even created new names for Spanish cities and placed them in a mistook place.

OPINION

For us, what these TV shows are doing is disrespectful. We know some of them are only joking, but some other didn’t even bother in doing research about Spanish culture and just filmed what they think our life is like.

We would like to ask these directors, would it bother them if we did the same to them?