the new beginning

Dear fans, I appologize for being a bit absent in regards of the blog, I however have been working hard and producing lots of interesting work, proof of that will be shown shortly.
The new beginning as a title of this entry responds as a new understanding of the culture here in Barcelona. One of the big realizations I have had latelly is to comprehend the migration phenomeon here in Barcelona. For many of us, we are familiar in the United States with a large and complex fabric of ethnicities, we have many backgrounds living under the same roof, and while we still have frictions with all the different races, religious beliefs, we are somehow acustom to see "America" as the mother who embraces all of us, with a democracy that many would question, but still a democracy that hopefully will be more just, but a democracy that has kept us together.
Here in Barcelona and the Catalan region, things are different, the migration of different ethnicities is something that really has exploted on the last 30 years, and represents a very new issue, that explains the resistance of the traditional mind against this global culturalization, and the feeling of beeing unappreciated by all the "giris" who live here. "Giri" is a term used to identify any foreigner in the city.
So that and many other things that I will not have time to explain in this session, has shown me that is not just me, but many like me who experience Barcelona from the point of view of a stranger, a stranger who tries to ambrace the culture despite the natural resistance of something unfamiliar. I love Barcelona, I find it to be the cultural capital of europe, as many have mention, it is a world of thoughts and ideas that honestly blows your mind away.