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Old October 08, 2010, 02:50 PM
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That only shows 50 Indians in Barcelona, compared with over 500 Germans.
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Yes, the Germans have been coming since the 70s and there are entire little towns in Girona and Mallorca where, if your German is nonexistent... you can't buy a loaf of Brot!

The Indians phenomena I believe it starts less than 20 years ago... (?)

Sorry, I have to correct myself... In Asterix in Hispania there is already a clear reference about Germans coming through about 50 or 45 B.C. !

(Not to mention the Visigodos, Suevos y Alanos... todas ellas tribus germánicas... los españoles somos muchos godos, y Carlos I de España y V de Alemania, hablaba mejor el alemán que el español... y...)
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I know that Barcelona has an established population of English-speaking Indians.
I was served by one in a supermarket when I was there. He seemed to find it rather amusing that I used my little Catalan on him.

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That only shows 50 Indians in Barcelona, compared with over 500 Germans.
I had to disabuse an Australian friend of the notion that the photo he had taken in Cataluña showing a house named "4Germans" was evidence of immigration...
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I was served by one in a supermarket when I was there. He seemed to find it rather amusing that I used my little Catalan on him.

Molt bé, noi! En catalá, si us plau.
[Well done, lad! In catalonian, please.]


I had to disabuse an Australian friend of the notion that the photo he had taken in Cataluña showing a house named "4Germans" was evidence of immigration...
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