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[TreasonousBastard]

BEFORE they fight it with swords ain't too pretty. But, bullfighting is dying a slow death over there. It seems more tourists than Spaniards go to the Corrida.

Only spent two weeks there a while ago, but I got the impression that Spaniards are the "least happy" people in Europe. Even more dour and severe than the Swiss. Dark, moody, and suspicious. Rarely smiling and even more rarely laughing-- not seeming to enjoy life very much. Perhaps the ghosts of Philip II and Franco are too difficult to exorcise.

Perhaps that's changing, or not all that bad after all. The images of millions marching in honor of the dead and praying for peace, not revenge, should be a lesson to us all.