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No, I did all my education in Spain and starting time was 8-9am with a 1-3pm lunch break. About half of the kids going home for lunch and back to school.
by dmarcos 6y ago
No, I did all my education in Spain and starting time was 8-9am with a 1-3pm lunch break. About half of the kids going home for lunch and back to school.
- NikolaeVarius 6y ago2 hours?
- projektfu 6y agoSpain is somewhat famous for the Siesta, a long lunch and nap break.
- brnt 6y agoIt's normal in France too (12-2pm).
- leesalminen 6y agoChile as well.
- dmarcos 6y agoNo siesta. Commute and some do homework during that time. Kids with both parents working stay at school cantine and lunch break is socializing / sports. I used play basketball during that time.
- projektfu 6y agoApparently an offensive comment?
- pvaldes 6y agoNah. Would be not much different than saying that US is famous for their gallant parties and great cotton fields harvested by singing black slaves (and repeating that again and again each time you talk about US). It just feels stupid currently.
- t-writescode 6y ago... are you really comparing the righteous outrage someone would have over saying Americans are slave owners to ... saying people like to take afternoon naps?
- pvaldes 6y agoIs just an example. But could be an accurate comparison, yes Repeatedly calling all the people in a country as lazy and unproductive is not an innocent move. Is parroting the racist slogans what other people said since decades whereas choosing to be blind to the easily verifiable facts. Therefore can be traced easily to drink from the same racist fountains, even if is of a soft, non-conscious type. Dehumanization is a necessary previous step for racism. From there is easily escalated to "they don't deserve it" and "they must be punished for it" and to "he tried to resist and I don't care if this hispanic scum can breathe (because in my mind is just a parasite)". Can you see the pattern? Lots of people in Spain are as white as the whitest people that you can find in USA. I guarantee that you couldn't guess in photos by their look, who will be classified as "hispanic" and who will be classified as "white/caucasian" in the frontier.
- t-writescode 6y ago> Repeatedly calling all the people in country as lazy and unproductive is not an innocent move I would consider a nap in the middle of the day far from laziness, but an enabler of great productivity. I'm (edit: covetous) of siestas.
- projektfu 6y agoOh, I see. So people are interpreting my mentioning the fact that siestas are a historically cultural aspect of Spain (Biphasic sleep being totally normal and healthy) as implied racism or cultural elitism. That’s fine, but don’t act unprejudiced yourself if that’s how you do. Anyone who questions whether it’s still topical in Spain need only read the news where people fret about losing the siesta or complain that their work doesn’t allow it, or enshrine it into law, or proudly announce that the ‘stereotype’ is gone and Spaniards are now like the rest of Europe.
- pvaldes 6y agoYou have an outdated image of the country, like 200 years outdated, or so...
- ghostDancer 6y agoIt's not because siesta, that's mostly a legend. In Spain lunch is a big meal, the biggest of the day. Add to that the children going home and coming back to school .
- pvaldes 6y agoThis is also a difference, breakfast in Spain is typically a short event.