I was forced to learn english when I was a kid. Since three years old I was believing spanish is a poor language, for imperialism. This is part of black legend of Spain. By growing I realize that spanish language is one of the most beautiful languages I can ever learn as an infant. People deserves to know the jew story of Cervantes or the unbelievable story of Cabeza de Vaca, HernĂ¡n Cortes among others.... It is sad watch people on north-america saying Colon was an invasor.

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interesting.

Completely ignorant here.

you can search for "Black legend" of Spain.

also wikipedia is well referenced.

I know nothing of this either. I'm reading about it now.

Believe me, I am Spanish and I noticed that story only two years ago.

The story is well covered by both english and spanish "hispanistas",. This is not a story of self laudatory.