I don't have many hassles, except for the fact that I guess lots of people
think of me as 'foreign looking' because of my dark skin and my hair. Some who
don't know me are either afraid of who they think I am, or think they're
superior. Things change when they got to know me, but at first appearances
seem to be a barrier.
I had a bad problem only once when a group of blokes chased me and my friend
Buruma for a while. Nothing happened but we definitely didn't want to hang around,
just in case... For the moment Spain is not too violent a place for foreigners
(or people of colour in general, even if they were born in Spain) but it is also
true that the percentage of minorities is quite
small in comparison with some other countries. I wish people valued for us for
what we are...
Many people also seem to think that my father came to Spain in an illegal
small boat (patera), so they assume that my family is very poor. He didn't, and
we aren't
