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EU citizens are being kicked out of the UK. In Spain people are asking: why not treat Brits the same way?

www.theguardian.com EU citizens are being kicked out of the UK. In Spain people are asking: why not treat Brits the same way? | María Ramírez

Does turning away Europeans with valid paperwork really make British borders ‘safe and secure’? It’s hard to imagine, says Spanish journalist María Ramírez

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So fun fact: In Spain we have a word: guiri. While technically it means any foreign tourist, 90% of the time we use it as a pejorative against British people lol
- I don't think there's a specific word for them here, but basically 90% of the time you hear someone shouting and acting like a drunk asshole in the Amsterdam centrum, they've got a UK accent.
  
  Same everywhere in Spain. The Brits have a tendency to get super drunk and jump off of balconies
- I have traded being a Gringo to being a Guiri....and I'm OK with that (because the few times it was used I defended myself in somewhat passable Spanish and then everything was cool)

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