Friday 31 October 2008

PEOPLE IN LAVAPIES

HOW PEOPLE ARE INTERACTING IN LAVAPIES

http://www.expatica.com/es/life_in/feature/Madrid-neighbourhood-becomes-global-crossroads.html


SOME QUOTES...

A lawyer from Niger sits on a terrace advising a Pakistani businessman, a Japanese and a Mexican woman discuss their joint activities in an anti-racist movement, and immigrants walk the streets with their Spanish wives and children.

"People tend to stick to their own kind," Thierno says. "Senegalese, for instance, spend their time watching television with other Senegalese in flats rented by Senegalese."

Elderly Spanish residents who have seen the neighbourhood change radically sit on benches in the central square and watch people from all over the world pass by.

Marta

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