{"product_id":"poor-folk-in-spain-von-jan-gordon","title":"Poor Folk In Spain","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe had tasted of Spain before ever we had crossed her frontiers. Indeed, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eperhaps Spain is the easiest country to obtain samples from without the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efatigue of travelling. The Spaniard carries his atmosphere with him: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewherever he goes he re-creates in his immediate surroundings more than a \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehint of his national existence. The Englishman abroad may be English¿\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emore brutally and uncompromisingly English than the Spaniard is \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanish¿yet he does not carry England with him. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe does not, that is, recreate England to the extent of making her seem quite real abroad; there \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eshe appears alien, remote, somewhat out of place. So, too, neither the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRussian, the German, the Dane, the Portuguese, the Italian, nor the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican can carry with him the flavour of his homeland in an essence \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esufficiently concentrated to withstand the insidious infiltration of a foreign \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eatmosphere. To some extent the Scandinavian countries, Norway and \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSweden, have this power; but Spain is thus gifted in the greatest measure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese three countries seem to possess a national unconsciousness which \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efends them off from too close a contact with lands which are foreign to \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethem; perhaps one might almost accuse them of a lack of sensitiveness in \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecertain aspects....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9791041984954\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA Journey Through Spain: Discovering Culture and Identity\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9791041984954","offer_id":48305997349189,"sku":"9791041984954","price":22.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/5959a3c8-ddda-403b-921f-4d30469d47fb.jpg?v=1768459767","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/poor-folk-in-spain-von-jan-gordon","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}