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[–] Oswy ago 

I'm English and live in Spain, and would probably find things rather more alien to me in Sweden or Bavaria, I dare say! The seafaring nations have another commonality that marks them from the rest as well. We had a thread here a while back urging how this largely separates the Dutch from the Germans, for example. As for las Indias, sure they speak Spanish, but there are cultural undercurrents out there that might as well be Martian, too. All of these categories we try to put things in are very generalised and somewhat abstract. While occasionally useful, and helpful to the student of history and culture, any distinctions made have to be seen in context of wider more complex patterns.