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Host Country Report

Hannan Salem

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Spain

For my host report, I’ve collected information about Spain due to my desire to visit. I’ve collected photos of the most visited historical monuments, cultural foods, and scenery locations. I’ve put most recent news in Spain, festivals, cultural fashion, and the type of music Spanish people listen too.

Spain doesn’t have a couple regions, matter of fact it has seventeen. Which are Andalucia, Aragon, Asturias, Balearic Islands, Basque Country, Canary Islands, Cantabria, Castilla La Mancha, Castilla y Leon, Catalonia, Extremadura, Galicia, La Rioja, Madrid, Murcia, Navarra, and Valencia. The most countries in Spain has the most cultural elements which are Basque Country, Navarre; Catalonia, Balearic Islands, Valencia and Galician in Galicia.

There are a few important countries in Spain and also the two capitals. The capital are Madrid and Barcelona and they have one of the biggest population, where tourists plan their vacation to visit. Also, Valencia, Sevilla, Saragossa, and Malaga have a huge population, but other countries in Spain has a smaller population.

The most top ten important historical moment in Spain where in Aznar in 1995 the Popular Party Jose Maria Aznar survives a car bomb. In 2004 Madrid had hundred and one killed in an explosion on a packed rush hour train in near simultaneous pre-elcection attacks. Where a group of Islamic were linked to al-Qeada, which later, has been blamed. Also, in 2005 another car bombed in Madrid where injured 40 people. In 2006 Eta Ceasefire, where the Prime Minister Zapatero says the government will hold peace and talk to the group. In 2008 Eta were ruling socialist workers wins the re-election with an increase margin, but falls short of absolute majority. Eta in 2012, unemployment passes a 5 million mark where jobless rate gas increased to 22.8% where 16-24 year olds where jobless.

In Spain the most fluent language is spoken is Spanish 99% of the time. Catalan is spoken about 17%, Galician spoken about 7% and Basque about 2% of the population.

The political system in Spain can be unfair due to gender schemas. For example, voting for rights can depend on whether a bilateral agreement exists between Spain and their home countries. Also, corruption is the most topical issues in Spain during the past several years’ corruption has among public officials including illegal financing of political parties, tax avoidance, fraud, bribery, institutionalized sleaze, nepotism, misappropriation of public funds, and illegal patronage. Spain has been described as the most corrupt society among the original 15 members of the EU and corruption permeates political and public life at every level.

Most regions in Spain are Christian where 77% of population claim to belong to the Catholic churches and less than 1% protestant. The majority of the world’s religious and philosophical movements have religious countries or meeting places in the major cities and resort sears, including English and American churches.

The most well read newspaper in Spain is El Pais the largest newspaper with a loosely liberal political association. The media which is television where TVE which is (La Primera) and TVE-2 also is (La Dos) channels in Spain are mostly watched. The radio stations are mainly heard of are, Cadena SER, Los 40 Prinicpales stations plays the most popular music. There are also Cadena 100 which is another popular music station, and Cadena Dial.

In Spain most dishes are served as Mexican food for example soup and stews are a staple in a Spanish cuisine where they are commonly eaten in Mexico. The most popular soups are gazpacho which is a tomato based soup that is served with a cold bread and tortilla soups are most common in cuisine. In Spain they usually have a time schedule to eat for example, breakfast “El Desayuno” is around 7:30am right before everyone has to go to work would be having a cup of coffee and small piece toast with jam or butter. Mid-morning snack which is a real breakfast, would be around 10 A.M would consist of a soup with a toast of jam and a pastry. For lunch “La Comida” would be their main meal of the day would be an appetizer, main dish, a beverage and dessert of course.

Spanish greeting can be greeted in different types of ways. For relatives and friends, they would greet each other with a kiss on the cheek while shaking hands, or a hug. When a male greets a female they would gently touch both arms and move together until they around a couple of inches apart as in hugging and kissing on the cheek for hello. In casual parties, they would treat their guests as family with a kiss on the cheek and a hug or just a hug. For a business situation, greeting with a hand shake for respect.

Spanish chillout - Spanish Nights (mixed by SpringLady) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJtWY6-MF-M

Marenostrum Music Festival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiR2Pe2Ebbk

Luis Fonsi - Despacito ft. Daddy Yankee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQP7kiw5Fk&list=PLw-VjHDlEOgvT-sOErqlUvlTVldqB1jpF

Madrid, Spain | Top Attractions Travel Guide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ-hAEbN-RE

10 Best Places to Visit in Spain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiHB2lZm4vw

Beautiful Romantic Barcelona" "City Spain" "World Cities"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM9GkZ0XNps

Pamplona, Spain: Running of the Bulls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmp4DjtWcuw

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10-20 images of your host country and its people (copyright free)

3-5 short videos (you may link to videos to avoid copyright problems)

3-6 songs or music samples (you may link to songs to avoid copyright problems)

3-4 recent news stories about your country

2-3 travel blogs, fiction, short writings, etc. that discuss your country

Spain

10-20 images of your host country and its people (copyright free)

Pull Fighting

Catedral de Toledo

Three Kings Day

Holy Week (Semana Santa), Seville

Customs

Tortilla Espanola

Roman Theatre

Spanish Civil War

Royal Palace

Wind Turbines

2. 3-5 short videos (you may link to videos to avoid copyright problems)

Madrid, Spain | Top Attractions Travel Guide

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ-hAEbN-RE

10 Best Places to Visit in Spain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiHB2lZm4vw

Beautiful Romantic Barcelona" "City Spain" "World Cities"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM9GkZ0XNps

Pamplona, Spain: Running of the Bulls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmp4DjtWcuw

3. 3-6 songs or music samples (you may link to songs to avoid copyright problems)

Spanish chillout - Spanish Nights (mixed by SpringLady) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJtWY6-MF-M

Marenostrum Music Festival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiR2Pe2Ebbk

Luis Fonsi - Despacito ft. Daddy Yankee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJQP7kiw5Fk&list=PLw-VjHDlEOgvT-sOErqlUvlTVldqB1jpF

4. 3-4 recent news stories about your country

Five reasons why Spain is still failing on women's rights

Fiona Govan

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8 March 2017 11:20 CET+01:00

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Spain's come a long way since the dark days of Gen Francisco Franco when a woman's role was firmly in the home and she needed permission from her husband to get a job, open a bank account, own property or even travel away from home.

But women still don't enjoy parity with men in Spain and there is a way to go to bridge the gender gap.

1. Inequality in the workplace

Women in Spain earn 19.3 percent less than men. Photo: World Bank Collection / Flickr

Spain’s female executives earn 16 percent less than their male counterparts, although this is better than the EU average salary gap of 23.4 percent acccording to the latest Eurostat data.

The percentage of women in managerial positions is 37 percent and by far the majority of Spain’s top earners are men. Although men represent 54 percent of all salary earners, they occupy the top jobs, with data from Spain’s finance ministry showing that 82 percent of positions where salaries are more than ten times the minimum wage are held by men.

2. Women are still officially described as "the weaker sex"

The definitive dictionary of the Spanish Language, as published by The Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), carries a definition for the phrase “sexo debil” – the weaker sex – as “women in general”.

While the term “the stronger sex”, is of course a definition of “men in general”.

But after a campaign launched by teenager Sara Flores Romerothat has garnered almost 100,000 signatures on change.org, the RAE has agreed to revise the definition in its next edition published in December.

3. Spain taxes tampons

Spain still has a tax of 10 percent on feminine hygiene products - which is the same rate for caviar - putting millions each year into government coffers.

Other products, like intimate gels and hygienic wipes, carry a 21 percent tax.

Last year a group of women began a campaign entitled “Tampons from Canada” – a protest that involved importing tampons from the North American country where such items are not considered a luxury and are tax-free.

"Women of Spain, we already bleed enough, so let’s unite so that the government of Spain does not make us bleed more," the group says in a YouTube video.

4. Women do most of the housework and childcare

This advert for Cillit Bang was banned because it reinforced the stereotype that only women do the housework.

Spanish women also take on the majority of the household chores and spend much more time on unpaid tasks such as childcare or caring for elderly relatives, even if they too hold down a job.

Working men spend on average two hours per day on household activities, while working women spend double that – over 4 hours every day on household tasks, according to data collected by Spain’s National Statistics Institue (INE)

They also do around 70 percent of unpaid care within the home – either of children or elderly relatives - according to data collected by Spanish think-tank Fedea.

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The protest against domestic violence in Puerta del Sol. Photo: Fiona Govan / The Local

Women in Spain are still being killed at the hands of their partners and ex-partners. In the first two months of 2017, 17 women were murdered by the men in their lives.

During 2016, a total of 44 women were killed as a result of “gender violence” and campaigners believe the Spanish government should be doing more to prevent and punish such crimes.

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Podemos MP Carolina Bescansa brought her baby into work. Photo: AFP

Things have certainly improved in leaps and bounds for women since Spain’s transition to democracy on the death of fascist dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.

In the last general elections in June 2016, more women than ever before were voted into the Spanish parliament when 138 women won seats in the 350-member congress.

That means women make up 39.42 percent of MPs in Spain’s national parliament above the EU average of 37 percent.

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Spanish Women, Advancing in Politics, Still Battle Sexism

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Ada Colau, the mayor of Barcelona since 2015, at the municipality building in the city in May. She has been subject to several sexist insults since taking office. CreditSamuel Aranda for The New York Times

MADRID — Teresa Rodríguez, the leader of the far-left Podemos Party in the southern region of Andalusia, was visiting an exhibition in the Chamber of Commerce of Seville when she ran into a member of the group she had never met before.

In no time, the man, Manuel Muñoz Medina, pushed up against her and simulated kissing her on the mouth — before handing her his business card.

Ms. Rodríguez, 35, said she was too upset and shocked to react at the time, just before Christmas. But she then took to social media and started legal action this year. Mr. Muñoz Medina, 72, later apologized for his behavior, saying he had been drunk, and resigned from the chamber’s board.

Spanish women have made tremendous advances in recent years as the revolt against mainstream parties helped break down some old-boy networks. But that upheaval, the women say, has also laid bare the deeply entrenched sexism and machismo in Spain’s political establishment, which has at the very least been slow to adapt to changing times, intensifying a clash of both generations and genders.

It has been less than a year since voters elected a Parliament with a record number of women for Spain: 139 out of 350 lawmakers. Within Podemos, which has become Spain’s third-largest party, women make up almost half of lawmakers. In Spain’s regions, far-left women now serve as mayors in both Madrid and Barcelona, Spain’s two largest cities.

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But women say they still face big obstacles as they try to make their way in Spanish politics, still predominantly a man’s world. Sexual harassment aside — and it is common — among the problems most commonly cited by women is that men expect their female colleagues to share their views, not have opinions of their own.

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Teresa Rodríguez, center, said she hoped her lawsuit would break “the feeling of impunity” in the male corporate establishment. CreditJon Nazca/Reuters

“It’s not just about having more women in politics, but also about allowing women to take whatever line they want in their politics,” said Anna Gabriel, a lawmaker from a Catalan far-left party known by its acronym, CUP.

Last year, Ms. Gabriel and female colleagues held a public meeting under the headline “We haven’t come to look good,” to denounce the sexist response to their electoral progress.

During the meeting, each woman in turn read out from a podium some of the choicer insults she had received on the job. They ranged from demeaning comments about their appearance to more aggressive insults.

Ms. Gabriel said that, despite her party’s efforts to denounce sexism in politics, she and her colleagues continued to be subjected to attacks that almost invariably mix political criticism with personal insults.

“What we hear has to do with our political stance, but the comments almost always include something about our bodies, sexuality, sexual lives and whether we’re beautiful or not,” she said.

That kind of discourse would be familiar to women the world over. The issue of sexism in politics or other pursuits is by no means limited to Spain.

Most prominently it surfaced in the United States last year, when Donald J. Trump was elected president despite a leaked tape in which he bragged about grabbing women.

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Inés Arrimadas, a leading politician of Ciudadanos, or Citizens, in Madrid in November 2015. Last year, she responded to a former conservative government spokesman’s Twitter post on her appearance, saying, “We’re continuing to work so that these proofs of anachronistic machismo become each time more residual.”CreditGerard Julien/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Last week, a Polish member of the European Union Parliament, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, said during a debate,“Of course women must earn less than men because they are weaker, they are smaller, they are less intelligent.”

In Spain, a judge from the supreme court, Antonio Salas, caused outrage in January after he joined an online debate about gender violence to argue that “if women had the same physical strength as men, this would not happen.”

Many of the misogynistic attacks have been delivered through social media. Last April, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, a former conservative government spokesman and secretary of state, used Twitter to contrast the looks of Inés Arrimadas, whom he described as “physically attractive as a young female,” with what he called her “political inconsistency.”

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Ms. Arrimadas is one of the leading politicians of Ciudadanos, or Citizens, another party that won its first seats in the Spanish Parliament in late 2015. She responded on Twitter, saying, “We’re continuing to work so that these proofs of anachronistic machismo become each time more residual.”

Since taking office as Barcelona’s mayor in 2015, Ada Colau has been subject to several sexist insults. Félix de Azúa, a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, the cultural body that is the guardian of the Spanish language, publicly urged Ms. Colau to sell fish in the market rather than run a major city.

Ms. Colau was also told by a local official of the conservative Popular Party, Óscar Bermán, that she was brainless and should be cleaning floors.

In September, the Popular Party suspended Mr. Bermán from office for two years for his comments. The Royal Academy, however, took no disciplinary action against Mr. de Azúa and said he was not available for further comment.

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While deploring such insults, Ms. Colau said that she was proud to have given Barcelona its first City Hall administration with an openly feminist agenda, committed to fighting not only sexism but also domestic violence.

“The sad reality is that sexist comments remain absolutely normal, also in the Spanish media, but that such criticism of women is the most visible but least dangerous part of the problem,” Ms. Colau said in an interview last year. “Dozens of women are killed in Spain every year — and that is a fact and reality.”

Last year, 44 women were killed as a result of domestic violence in Spain, which was the lowest figure since such crimes were first recorded in 2003. Still, protests have recently been held in Madrid to denounce gender violence, as well as to support eight women from an association in northwestern Galicia, who started a hunger strike on Feb. 9 to protest the muted political response to such crimes.

To observe International Women’s Day on Wednesday, Spanish women, like those elsewhere, were urged to halt their work for 30 minutes. Feminist associations also planned protests in Madrid and other cities, during which participants were urged to dress in black as a symbolic act of mourning against domestic violence and inequality in Spanish society.

Ms. Colau entered politics after working as an activist fighting housing evictions. She said that she had suffered far worse attacks as an activist than as mayor, including sexual harassment.

She never reported them to the police because, she said, “like a lot of other women, I wasn’t confident that it could be resolved judicially — and also because of the social stigma.”

Ms. Rodríguez, the Podemos leader in Andalusia, said she hoped her lawsuit would break “the feeling of impunity” among a large section of the male corporate establishment.

“I felt treated like a source of amusement for people who somehow feel superior not only in terms of gender, but also because of their age and social class,” she said. “If somebody feels he can have such an attitude toward me, imagine how that person might behave with a woman who actually works and gets paid by him.”

Correction: March 8, 2017 An earlier version of this article, along with a picture caption, misstated the name of a party that won its first seats in the Spanish Parliament in late 2015. It is Cuidadanos, not Cuidanos.

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At least 160,000 protesters have marched in Barcelona to demand that Spain's conservative-led government increase its efforts to take in refugees from war-torn countries like Syria.

Spain has accepted just 1,100 refugees of the over 17,000 it has pledged to take in.

Marchers held a large banner and signs in Catalan with the slogans 'Enough Excuses! Take Them In Now!' and 'No More Deaths, Open The Borders!' as they made their way through the city centre to its Mediterranean coast.

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Barcelona police said 160,000 people took part in the march, while organisers said it reached 300,000 participants.

“There is an ample consensus in Catalonia to demand that the (government's) commitments are upheld,” said organiser Ruben Wagensberg.

In September 2015, Spain's government pledged to bring 17,337 refugees in within two years: 15,888 from camps in Italy and Greece and 1,449 from Turkey and Libya.

Demonstrators march as they take part in a protest along the street in downtown Barcelona, Spain (Associated Press)

On Thursday, a group of 66 refugees – 65 Syrians and one Iraqi – who arrived in Madrid raised the total number of refugees that Spain has taken in to just 1,100.

Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau, a former anti-eviction activist who has pushed Spain's government to let her city accept more refugees, joined the march.

“It is very important that in a Europe of uncertainty where xenophobia is on the rise for Barcelona to be a capital of hope,” Ms Colau said.

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She also criticized the federal government's stance toward refugees in December at a Vatican conference on Europe's refugee crisis.

In contrast to Spain, fellow European Union member Germany took in 890,000 asylum-seekers in 2015 and another 280,000 in 2016.

Germany decided last year on more than 695,000 asylum applications. Nearly 60% of the applicants were granted either full refugee status or a lesser form of protection

5 2-3 travel blogs, fiction, short writings, etc. that discuss your country

Spain Travel Blog

http://www.nomadicmatt.com/travel-guides/spain-travel-tips/

Spain Blog

http://ohhellospain.blogspot.com/

Short Writing

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-new-reign-of-writing-from-spain-is-far-above-the-plain-1.2230575

· What did you collect?

· What about these media inspired or informed you?

· How can you use these media to help you prepare for your sojourn?

· What do you think is missing from your collection?

Throughout reading and web suffering about Spain I’ve collected images, short videos, music, news, and blogs. Images of the bull fighting in Spain and the beautiful churches left me in awe. Also, I’ve collected shorts videos explaining how Spanish festivals are attended, the most romantic places, and the most popular sceneries throughout Spain. What has inspired me the most during my reading, was Spain’s unity. I admired their fashion, for there are different types of dresses women would wear for different occasions. For example, when women attend festivals they would wear their tradition dresses to present their style. Aside from a woman’s woredrobe, I also learned that refugees have a high level acceptance to leave the country. I have become highly interested about Spain and I would love to know how their everyday life goes. I am also curious on what type of income citizens’ make in order to support their families and how they can afford to attend festivals and their night lives. Spain is on my bucket list, for I hope one day I would travel and experience the country on my own. Also, I would attend their cultural festivals and visit multiply churches, as well as their bull fighting shows. While viewing their most romantic getaways I would love to go with my husband and enjoy they view. Lastly, I would try as many restaurants as possible and enjoy their traditions sweets.

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