Oxymandias wrote:If they really didn't give a shit about Barcelona, they wouldn't have gone there.
I think you are making a false dichotomy there. I didn't say they didn't want to go there, I argued that they have no interest or respect for the culture, you are equating the two, but they are actually different. Locusts quite enjoy the lands they go to, but there relationship to that environment can hardly be called "a respect for it."
Tourists go to Barcelona to appreciate it for being Barcelona, its a show of respect and appreciation. Migrants go to Barcelona to get out of it what could benefit themselves (welfare, a safer neighborhood, a job, et al.). The relationship is fundamentally different, Tourists come to appreciate what is there and inject the economy directly with revenue, migrants come to benefit themselves and tend to drain the economy with whatever "net-benefit" they may offer via cheap labor existing in
potential not as an immediate injection via spending (hence, the exact opposite of tourists).
Oxymandias wrote:Al-Andalus says hello.
Well played; though, as far as whether the connection still exists? Let me just say that the
Reconquista was complete.