  
'If people come to our country they ought to.....'
Passenger: Look at that woman in her African clothes! I expect she eats funny food and expects us to have special food in schools. If people come here I can't see why they can't keep to our culture....
Lucia: Did you hear what that woman said Burama?
Burama: Yeah, I know, somebody else having a go at Africans.
Lucia: Some people are just so ignorant.
Passenger: I wasn't talking to you. Mind your own business and don't be so rude.
Lucia: You may not have been talking to me but half the train station can hear what you're saying. My friend sometimes wears African clothes and doesn't eat pork, so you were getting at him, I don't care what you say.
Burama: Leave it Lucia, it's not worth arguing.
Passenger: Well I'm glad to see you have some manners at least.
Ivan: Yes, imagine that. An African with manners, whatever next?
Burama: It's not about good manners, I just can't be bothered to argue sometimes. I mean, why should I have to? My parents came here to work, to do jobs Spanish people didn't want to do, and no-one said at the time 'by the way, stop practising your religion, eat pork, wear only what we tell you to, and while you're about it why not give up your own language as well'.
Ivan: Oh, so that wasn't part of the deal? There wasn't some kind of contract where they said if you try to become completely Spanish maybe we'll forgive you for being black?
Burama: No, odd that.
Passenger: I wasn't saying anything about his colour. I was talking about culture.
Burama: Look, I don't want to have this conversation, but since you insist, can you tell me what is it about my parents' culture that is such a threat to Spain? Why does it matter to you whether I eat pork or not, or what I wear, come to that?
Passenger: why should our schools have to provide special food for you? We should concentrate on things for our own people.
Lucia: He is 'our own people'. He's been here years. His parents pay taxes just like mine.
Passenger: Really? You look like a Roma to me. Your parents pay taxes? Are you sure you bought a ticket.
Ivan: This is too much. You may pay taxes but you have no respect. What have we done to you? Have we insulted you? Have we hit you? Let's go and sit somewhere else.
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