I really do feel for you. As I have maybe mentioned before, I have been married to a Spanish woman and I spent twenty five years living in Spain being treated like a second class citizen.

The Spanish Ministry of Education even blocked my expensive attempts at getting my degree homologated so that I could teach in the state system schools.

The number of times I was treated like an ignorant fool, because I was English, beggared belief. And back in my home country I was subject to a certain amount of ridicule, " What's up, a nice white English girls isn't good enough for you Liam."

Now I am married to a lovely Japanese girl and back in Spain I got it a little bit about that. One guy making squinty eyed gestures, others wanting to know if they could have my wife when I had finished with her ! They presumed that it was all just for the sex and that she was little more than an Asian whore. Seriously Rebecca, I am a white guy who gets what it is you're saying. And I love that you're saying it ever so eloquently and determined to fight it.

Keep going, you'll get there in the end.