In the minds of many Germans, the image of Spain as a church-conservative macho state persists. That was also the case for our author, who studied in Andalusia 25 years ago. But she had to revise her opinion: How could this change succeed?
Alexandra Frank
Sometimes it’s the little things that say a lot about the state of a society. For me, it was a simple gesture, a hand movement that made the camel’s back, back in the fall of 1997, when I was living as a 21-year-old Erasmus student in the southern Spanish city of Seville.