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Where do the people of Spain live, work, meet, and play? The middle class Spaniards most commonly live in houses, however Spain does have mansions, palaces, and monuments as well. Spaniards gather and live in villages. According to Every Culture:
“The concentration of structures in space lends an urban quality even to small villages. The Spanish word pueblo, often narrowly translated as "village”, actually refers equally to a populace, a people, or a populated place, either large or small, so a pueblo can be a village, a city, or a national populace. Size, once again, is secondary to the fact of a concentration of people. In most rural areas, dwellings, barns, storage houses, businesses, schoolhouses, town halls, and churches…show more content… These cities appeal to people because they have a large number of attractions. A few structures that attract people are “ unique monuments of Islamic architecture as the Alhambra in Granada and the great Mosque of Córdoba; monuments of Roman building such as the aqueduct of Segovia and the tripartite arch at Medinaceli; and religious architecture of early Christian through Renaissance times. These—along with prehistoric art and sites—are important in the array of emblems of local and regional identities” (Freeman, n.d.). Spain also has The Holy Family Church, which is a high standing religious structure. They also have Roman theatres and many more cathedrals that are very important to their…show more content… “The Spanish constitution of 1978 protects the democratic independence for“, distinct and nationalities and regions” (Gale 2009). Because of this, attempting to define the social structure, gender roles, family structure, social identity, and political structure for the entire country is a difficult task. Within Spain, there are six major cultures including the Castilians, the Galician’s, the Basques, the Catalans, the Levante, and the Andalucians (Gale. 2009a) and other minority cultures include the Roma and the Austrians (Gale 2009b)” (Society, n.d.). Spain however does have royal families, which are higher class, they have nobles, considered middle class, and at the bottom of that structure are rural and manual laborers.
Language
Spanish is the language of romance. Spain birth became a concern in 1999 due to it being the lowest in the world. Castilian provinces hold the majority of Spain’s population. The Balearic (includes Barcelona and Valencia) Islands, Valencian and Catalan provinces have approximately 30% of Spain’s population, Galicia 7% and Basque 5%. Spain’s national language is Spanish, however; there are some remote areas with non-Spanish speaking people. There are two other minority languages Gallego and Catalan, which derived from the Latin in their respective regions.
Power and Social
