Spanish People

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I've walked the Camino primitivo de Santiago in August so I got to experience the actual Spain, both rural and urban (sort of) and the people that live there. What I've seen surprised me since I never expected the Spanish to be that different from us regular, civilised north European folks. I've also a few friends here in Belgium that are Spanish and my experience of them was confirmed when I traveled there. I wanted to share it with you guys

Good points
really friendly
warm, very welcoming (except Galicians)
awesome at cooking
easy girls
interested in everything
engaged in politics
confident
proud

Bad points
always late
selfish, self centered
too proud
too confident
disorganized
assume you're an idiot if you don't speak Spanish
don't speak anything else than Spanish
delusional about their country and themeselves
loud

The fact that they assume you're an idiot if you don't speak Spanish is particularly striking. I am myself a lawyer and I got treated by teenagers as if I was retarded, that was funny but annoying sometimes, especially when I was being left out because they could not bother speaking a language we both understood, or at least try. I got that with several Spaniards from different parts of Spain at different times.

Also, local Spanish farmers, dear God

Overall an awesome experience, 9/10 would do again (camino del norte maybe)