   Mixed marriages
Luci: So, who didn't like the film?
Josep: You are always so positive! Yes, I know, I know. You ask that way on purpose. Clever girl!
Edurne: Oh yes, this is typical; this is the Luci we know and love. And you, Josep, you are always the first one to react. Do your parents know that you are hyperactive? Hey, hey, don't look at me like that. You know I'm joking, don't you? Anyway, even if you were hyperactive, that's not a crime.
Josep: Come on, come on, let's answer Luci, and stop analysing the way she asks. I'll start... Actually, I didn't like the film much.
Edurne: Oh, I did! And what I especially liked was that the main actress is a black woman and the main actor is white. It was in America and everything, but they still fell in love with each other.
Josep: Hum... But why do you say "but"? If you say "but" it means that you don't see it as normal that a man and a woman of different colours could love each other.
Edurne: No, I didn't mean that, I meant....
Urpi: ...You know that I'm a romantic girl like Luci, but I don't know that I'd call it love. Perhaps a little bit, but I reckon they just fancied each other, it was mostly physical attraction. Also, maybe he just saw her as a bit, you know, exotic.
Josep: That's it, exactly, it was just because she was different - no way would he stay with her. Anyway, he was working for her, she was his boss, she was not an ordinary black woman. Do you think that he would have been so keen if she was just anyone? What about if she was poor, not famous...?
Edurne: She was beautiful though...
Luci: I thought everyone would say they liked the film. Was I wrong or what? Incurable romantic, that's me. I suppose I wasn't being deep enough... films are so clever the way they make you feel things...
Josep: You've lost me there Luci...
Luci: You know... the way sometimes they make us to see the thieves and drug dealers or even assassins as the good guys.
Burama: Can I say something?
Everyone else: Pleeeease!!
Burama: None of you mentioned that she was divorced and had a little boy. At first I was thinking like Josep but then, well... I know about some older girls from Gambian who went out with white boys who just left them. As soon as they got what they wanted they just left. Those girls were just seen as trophies. I think the boys saw black girls as not for marrying but just for having fun with. But in the film, okay so she was rich and beautiful, but she was still divorced with a little boy... He didn't mind, did he? They fell in love, and that was what mattered really.
Josep: I wonder what I'd do if I was in love with someone from a culture my parents didn't like...
Urpi: The thing is, though, would anyone be mad enough to fall in love with you...?
Josep: You're so not funny Urpi... so what would be important for you? Would you marry a Moroccan professor, or a Chinese millionaire?
Urpi: It might help if they were professors or millionaires, but I told you, I'm like Luci; it's love that counts.

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