Speak the Culture: Spain: Be Fluent in Spanish Life and Culture

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1. Identity: the
   building blocks of
   2. Literature
   and philosophy
   3. Art and
   architecture
   4. Performing
   arts
   5. Cinema
   and fashion
   6. Media and
   communications
   7. Food and drink 8. Living culture:
   the details of

6.2 Communications

The communications network offers up

some trite (but not inaccurate) metaphors

for Spain itself: ultra modern, well funded

and slick in parts but stuck in the past

and parochial in others. And if you’re

out on the roads you may also discover

the impassioned stereotypes of the

Spanish temperament.