I’m from Spain, and it is surprising to hear someone say we will do that. We have a huge inferiority complex, and our own cainistic version of the black legend

I’m from Spain, and it is surprising to hear someone say we will do that. We have a huge inferiority complex, and our own cainistic version of the black legend, that makes us revere anything foreign as better than the local version. We have petty fights re. official languages about whether traffic signs should read “A coruña” or “La coruña”; or whether the national news anchor should say “Gerona” or “Girona” when speaking in spanish. We have regional governments that push spanish out of their regions. We as a nation obsess over english; we dream of speaking it better, we make it sound cool in the ads. We mock our leaders for not speaking it properly. No one seriously pushes in a coordinated manner for spanish being used in the EU as seriously as the french or german do. At most, we aspire to be the proxy for latin america relationships. As soon as anyone proposes to use english, we will see it as the opportunity to not have half of europe speak in french.