Gallegos

In my native Argentina, the Spanish are called Gallegos, an overgeneralization of the name properly used only for natives of Galicia, a region in Northeast Spain. Gallegos are the butt of most Argentine jokes --the equivalent of the Polish in the U.S., the Russians in Poland, ... Now everyone who knows me knows some of the people closest to my heart are Spanish, so what follows should be taken with that in mind, and read with a smile on your face.

It turns out Gallegos jokes are not limited to folklore --they occur in reality. Here are two:

  • I was browsing the WWW and ran into a Spanish website that closed on evenings and weekends.
  • When I arrived at Madrid's International Airport, Barajas (the same one hit by an ETA terrorist attack yesterday), a few days ago, the Immigrations checkpoint had four manned counters. Two of them were packed with long lines, and two of them were completely empty. It turns out that the empty ones had a slow-changing electronic billboard over them that read alternately "Swedes and Norwegians", "Swiss" and "Citizens of the EU", so for two thirds of the time, 99% of travelers, most of whom were Spanish, felt they could not use them.





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