When you have good raw materials you just have to to mix them together well into something that's worth it. Spain has the raw materials but is it able to mix them together well.
If you give everyone the raw ingredients and the instructions to cook a cake it is likely that you are going to get 10 very different tasting, and looking, cakes. If you bring ten different folk to Spain they'll have 10 different perspectives and 10 different experiences. Their reaction to Spain will depend on their cultural background, their studies level, their likes and dislikes and even how they felt on that day.
What Are The Raw Materials?
The good thing is that Spain has the basic materials to make an extremely fine cake. There's the clear sun, sea, sand and sangria (I am sure I have missed an “s” out there;-) ) There are the countless Global Heritage preservation sites, the impressive views (Spain is the highest country in Europe aside from Switzerland) Yet there's something else, something that makes Spain different still. However to realise it you have to be here for some time. Those folks that have lived here or a time may very well have discovered it.
Let’s Call It Society
Britain lost its society with the fallout from the Thatcherite revolution as everyone got on their bikes and went to have a look for opportunities some place else. The soul was ripped out of communities starting with the mining towns, moving onto the inner towns and finishing with a flourish in the neverending soulless housing estates surrounding each major town and town in the country.
Spain never lost it… Till now.
The Battle For Spanish Society
Spain is wrestling currently. There is a brain drain moving out of the country because of the lack of opportunities here for up to date highly qualified graduates. One of the key growth areas in the Spanish economy is English as a foreign language in particular tailored to interview methodologies. I know many of us minting it with that profession.
That is extremely gloomy!
Young Spanish folk haven't moved far away from home. The average age for a young Spaniard to leave home is still between 32-34 years old dependent on the survey you read, but that is changing and that change threatens society here at an abdominal level.
Spain has the base material to modify. It has the young talent to modify. What it might not have, or rather, let’s face facts, what it doesn't have is the leadership it must take it forward into the future it so needs.
Conveniently the components make a very good cake still.
Graham writes a blog about being an Entrepreneur in Spain, Entrepreneur Solo. He also sells property in Spain through his web site Valencia Property.
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