Spain and Mexico?

Question

If you go to Spain, would you expect it to be more similar hispanic countries such as Mexico or to its neighbourings countries such as France?

concerning culture, food, people, climate, landscapes, attitudes, economy, politics, etc? which one would be more similar? Mexico or France?

Answer 1

I have been to Barcelona, Paris, and have traveled through Mexico.  I also speak Spanish.  Barcelona is more like France, and they speak Catalin, which has much French influence.  Mexico is a poor country, with many artisans, cheap beautiful pottery, blankets, and inexpensive restaurants.  The people are poor.  Spain is more similar to France, a modern (post Franco) country, with a growing economy, and large middle class.  Mexico is full of poverty, has a small middle and upper class, mostly poor.  They have poor standards, don't enforce regulations, corruption runs high.  The food is wonderful, as it is in Spain.  Lots of fish, paella is big big big, flamenco dancing.  And, in both places, the people are s**y s**y s**y.

Answer 2

Spain is completely different than Mexico! Everything about it is different. The food, the people, the culture...

I know this for sure because I am European and I have spent most of my summers growing up in Spain. It's a wonderful country with wonderful people.

Mexico is also very nice, but way different ...the people, the food and the country itself.

So to answer your question Spain and France are closer to compare..plus they are neighbors anyway....

Answer 3

I have not been to Spain though I have Spanish friends.  I also have Mexican friends and I lived there and learned Spanish there.  I have seen many movies and videos of Spain as well many of Mexico.  I am avid about anything having to do with Spanish/Hispanic culture.

The two countries are alike only in that they share the common root language of Spanish as we share English with England and other countries.  The architecture is somewhat similar, but attitudes, food, dress, customs, and the socieities vary widely between Mexico and Spain.  France would be the better comparison to make with Spain since Spain certainly is a European country and expresses many Europena attitudes.

Answer 4

mexico i always wanted to go there

Answer 5

Saying that Spain and France are similar because they are neighbours is as absurd as saying that Mexico and the United States are similar because they are neighbours .

Spain today resembles the rest of the European Union countries in the economy and somehow in the way they make politics, precisely because they form a union. However, each country has its idiosyncrasies and its very particular way of being. The nature of the Spaniards is not like that of the French, much less that of the Germans, for example. The Spaniards are by nature warmer, more personalised, less rigid, but also less ordered and rigorous.

Spain, having conquered and dominated for centuries almost all Latin American countries, has left a large imprint on them. In all of them you can still see remnants of the Spanish culture, customs, certain types of food, etc.., and, of course, the language. However, every American Spanish-speaking country has it's personal stamp printed on this inheritance and has maintained, in addition, prehispanic customs of it's own. For the foregoing reasons, it is not possible to simplify the matter by saying that Spain seems more or less similar to Mexico or France. It has similarities and differences with both countries. However, despite the distance, I think that Mexico is closer to the heart of many Spaniards than France.