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In reply to the discussion: This short video might inspire you, and it will certainly inform. Also, goodbye and good luck. [View all]Sarah Ibarruri
(21,043 posts)Spaniards find it more easy to organize than Americans do because of their lifestyle, system, and town-city layouts and transportation.
It's really hard here. Hard to get time off work. Hard because we have no real communities. Hard because it's difficult if not impossible to have cohesive friendships, pals, extended family. Everyone lives distant, everyone has trouble meeting up, it's just harder. Even getting out of work to protest is a danger here because here, anyone can be fired with no explanations.
For a long time I was between the 2 countries - worked for a year in one place, worked for a year in another. Every time I returned to The States, I was very able to notice the differences, and that's the biggest difference I noticed. In the U.S. people are pretty much isolated little fireflies with no cohesiveness among them, but not because they're necessarily bad or refuse to be cohesive. The system here does not lend itself to that, so every effort to protest or do anything, requires a gargantuan effort, which is why a protest here is so much more valuable than one elsewhere. I find anything that people do here that requires organizing, nothing short of miraculous.