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Europe is a continent, not one country, then each country in Europe is different from the other. Spain is not more, not less different.

Why do you expect Spain to be especially different from the others??

Spain is actually pretty similar to its neigbours in culture, politics, way of life and economic conditions: (Portugal, France or Italy)

If you compare Spain with more distant northern European nations of germanic culture (UK, Scandinavia, Germany, Autria,Netherlands) or to eastern European nations, then Spain will be much more different... But Britain itself is very different to, say, Russia.

It seems that many people in the US or outside Europe seems to think that all Europeans are like north American in term of look, culture or ways of life... And seem to think latin Europe to be "less European"... This is completely not true, and historically it is the reverse: European civilization was born in southern Europe, and spread to the germanic nations of northern Europe or slavic nations or eastern Europe much later. The US mainstream culture is mainly of Germanic/northern European cultural roots, this is maybe why some people think that countries of latin culture such as Spain, Portugal, Italy or France are somehow different to US mainstream, when the cultures of northern Europe doesn't seems so different. You should not forget that Europe is diverse and here, the latin nations are as much part of European/western civilization than the germanic/Anglo cultures do (if not more).

It is sad that so many people in the US look down on latin nations of the latin-America, thinking that they are not part of western civlisation when they often are as much part of it (if not more) than the US

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