re: #200 alegrias

I speak Spanish and just this week

Reminds me: I had a conversation the other day with two espaols and a mejicana, who had refreshingly positive things to say about living in the US. All spoke very highly of American civic culture; including the classic story I hear from a lot of foreign expats living here, “I left my cellphone/wallet/purse at the food court/shopping mall/Metro, and half an hour later got a call from the person who found it, and it was returned to me intact… that would never have happened in my country.”

It was a very nice corrective to the usual gringo/yanqui-bashing one hears.