[cplanas]

> More concretely, my wife happens to be hispanic, and feels she's experienced more negative racism in Barcelona than she ever did in the US.

I'm a bit confused by this. Racism in Barcelona against Hispanics? It's because she doesn't speak Catalan?

[otagekki]

When you speak Spanish but don't look European, some people in Catalonia can mess with you for not speaking Catalan.