How does Spanish culture differ from American culture?
Spanish culture includes a lot of festivals and at any given time you can find a festival in one city or other. The meal times are later than the U.S., with lunch around 2 p.m. and dinner around 9 or 10 p.m… Meals always include the first plate, second plate, and a third plate usually reserved for fruit or yogurt. Most young people love to party and go to discos. It is not unusual for young people to stay out all night on weekend nights. The streets of fast moving Madrid at nighttime were usually filled with activity. One aspect of Spain different from anywhere else is their gypsy flamenco culture. There were bars solely filled with flamenco music, rustic décor and gypsies scattered about. I had taken flamenco dance in the United States, but it was neat to see it be such a major part of Spanish history and culture. It is a beautiful, exciting dance and the music is so different from any other type of music found around the world. The flamenco singers have a distinct, even scratchy vo
