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Josep: Mohamed, I would like to ask you something. You said you're legally Spanish, right, and you feel Spanish?

Mohamed: Yes Josep, you've got it exactly, so how come you don't listen so carefully when I tell you my wise words on the best football team?

Josep: Yeah yeah, I'm being serious here, okay? You also told us at least once that people in Spain often assume that you're Moroccan, because of how you look.

Isa: Well, yes, just like I did, come to think of it, before I got to know Mohamed.

Josep: But then you also said that when you go to Morocco, Moroccans perceive you as an outsider because you speak Arabic with a Spanish accent and you kind of act differently. So how do you think of yourself, I mean, which are you, Spanish or Moroccan?

Mohamed: I just think I'm lucky to have been exposed to both cultures and I don't see myself as having to be either Spanish or Moroccan. I'm Spanish-Moroccan and Moroccan-Spanish, my religion is Islam, but I respect Catholicism and any other religion or faith. Maybe this is about the way people perceive me and not my own perceptions.

Josep: Okay, so are you Spanish-Moroccan or Moroccan-Spanish?

Mohamed: I'd say Spanish-Moroccan because although I was born in Morocco I've lived most of my life in Spain.

Isa: It's not quite the same thing, not as hard perhaps, but I'm also a mixture of two cultures though they're both from inside Spain. I'm part Castilian and part Andalusian. Sometimes, when I dance a lot some of you say I'm being more Andalusian. When I'm studying really hard or doing my homework better than someone else and say I'm not coming out, then all of a sudden I'm Castilian!

Josep: Well, so you get to combine discipline and fun. Because of my Galician grandad even some of my relatives call me 'Galician' sometimes.

Mohamed: Why?

Josep: Well, you could ask Maru why. But I'll tell you - because I sometimes answer a question with another question.

Isa: So, we better ask you few things... Right?

Josep: It depends...

Mohamed: On what?

Josep: I was just joking. Another Galician way of answering; another of my Galician identities...

Isa: Look, the train is coming.

Burama: Well, it depends.

Josep: It depends?

Burama: Well yes, is it coming or going? This isn't then end of the line.

Isa: Burama, I think that you have some Galician blood too!!

 
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