Please do not degrade the Spanish forum. Those who speak Castilian well are at least adept at the usage of the subjunctive tenses, a facet of grammar lost on today's gabblers of what passes for English amongst the chattering and colonial classes.
The English have, for centuries, referred to a Spaniard as a Dago. This is not a pejorative word but rather an abbreviation of Diego or James. In similar vein might the Englishman call the German Fritz or the German call the Englishman Henry.
perhaps worse, who knows after Dresden? The Spaniard has always been rather better balanced than most Europeans in his racial outlook, if not perhaps historically in his religious one. This is perhaps due to the cultural glories of architecture and intellect bestowed upon their peninsular by the Moors of northern Africa, traditions which, most regrettably, have not been handed down inherent within the teachings of their own kind. So much then for the beneficial influence of the slave trade upon north Africa, with which non sequitur one shall close this little prose passage which bears as much relation to the original post as much else that has been written here before.
