In reply to S****** Blonde.

See? Even being from Madrid your friend recognizes Barcelona is a better city. It has always been more openminded and cosmopolitan. More beautiful too.
There´s nothing wrong with its people. You can go there and you won´t have a problem. The past of Catalanes who have their identity issues with Spain have a right to feel that way. It´s not that serious. It happens in amny countries. They are not even the majority in Cataluña so they won´t separate. If it has not happened in Belgium and the UK it won´t happen here.
Spain is very diverse. It all comes from 500 years ago. Different kingdoms united to form what we know for Spain nowadays. But differences are there since many times it has been a forced union
Problem is Madrid think it has its right to tell the rest how they should feel. And life doesn´t work like that
It has always been like that. For example I´m proud (it seems weird to say it since I don´t care about countries and flags and being patriotic) of being from Spain cos several things. One being the level of atheism. Only France is that atheist. It is a result of past times where religion was too impossed (Franco). From Europe it surprises us how much religion is a part of politics and citiziens life in America. We´ve pass that long ago. It brings nothing good

But don´t worry for us. It seems complicated but it´s not. There are many other important things and people know it. We are really cool with each other at the end of the day (of course there are always fundamentalist people for everything, but I´m sure there are lots more in the USA than in Spain, at least for what the world can see about the USA and the news :) )

And yes Messi is just the best. Of course Barça has the best team ever these last few years. So it´s unfair to say it like that when you also have Iniesta, Xavi, etc. But it is what it is. Cristiano only makes "goles". He doesn´t know to play and don´t colaborate on anything else to his team. What happens is that you like him physically and that blinds you :)

Sorry if my English is atrocious :)