> There's no calvinist influence. You traded the Calvinist influence for the Roman Catholic influence in Spain. I'm sure there are tradeoffs involved. For inst

> There's no calvinist influence. You traded the Calvinist influence for the Roman Catholic influence in Spain. I'm sure there are tradeoffs involved. For instance, Dutch people tend to be very direct and matter-of-fact in their criticism of anything, which has benefits w/r/t efficiency and public order. Kind of hard to pull that off in a Catholic country.