I Have a B2 visa, could I visit the US for a few months, get a job and apply for a different type of visa? And if so, how? Would be in the tech industry ofc.
Yes, it's possible to change status from B-2 to a work status but your intent at the time of entry must be for pleasure and not for work. The sponsoring company would file a work petition for you with USCIS. But of course you must should determine whether you would even qualify for a work visa.
Exactly, seriously why is everyone in Spain like this? Spain is a wonderful and advanced country in most ways. Although I think having an inferiority complex is probably good for the country because it's the only way to improve.
National identity is a social construct. Spain has always been the sum of several national identities. This has of course created frictions, but there wasn't the push that order countries had to eradicate those identities when the birth of most modern states happened.
Franco tried to change that (as well as eliminating a sizeable part of Spain that didn't fit with his values). To this day, many spaniards identify the spanish national identity with those Franco's values (despite being fairliy minoritary and Spain a very socially progressive country).
After the transition to democracy, regional governments had a lot of incentives to create or reinforce their own identities to gain economic leverage against the central government. This has always been extremely transparent and it's no coincidence that the two richest regions have the strongest independentist movement.
So yeah, there is a lot of self-hatred or internalised inferiority complex... But also dishonesty. Many of the comments you will read online are self-interested (catalonian independentists) or even straight propaganda from the catalonian government. Not that it would be hard to find any other spaniard to rage about how Spain is, actually, a 3rd world country.
Nah, not everyone. You will see all this people singing proud "I'm spanish!, spanish!, spanish!..." in the next UEFA champions league. I assume that we are just a little drama queens sometimes, but in the end we all are very similar to you. You will find exactly the same frolicking behavior in any basketball league.
Being young adults and trying to thrive in a big city is not easy of course, but this is not a problem exclusive from Spain
It's not, really, I've been living through most of Europe and Spain's quality of life is way above average, there's literally no homeless (except for people with mental health issues or foreigners) low/middle class people buy properties, there's development in every industry, etc.
Edit: Downvoter care to explain? Please check this [1] NUTS 2 official data, half of Spain is above half of Germany
Maybe because those things don't directly have anything to do with country being corrupt, which was the question? There could be some indirect connection, but corruption and quality of life are not exactly the same things.
A corrupt enough country would not be able to protect people as Spain does.
Public services are paid with public money, if there is no money there are no services and as far as I know there is still public health and education and equal opportunitieas for (almost) everybody.
Because it is a case of corruption that is quite irrelevant at the Spanish level, much less at the European level and totally irrelevant at the global level. Villarejo is an ex-policeman who is blackmailing public figures to avoid a long prison sentence for corruption and bribe. He is a very basic blackmailer and the article at BBC is some PR to give some air to his judicial defence. It is certainly not a relevant/interesting/cultural article for HN.
Quite irrelevant at the Spanish level? I don't agree. He is involved in the dirtiest affairs of the Spanish society, from the political parties to the monarchy, including the police force...
But, we agree on that, absolutely irrelevant for HN.
> He is involved in the dirtiest affairs of the Spanish society
... dirtiest affairs of the Spanish _politicians_. Power wars, corruption and how the deep state works routinely under the rug, are in itself pretty interesting themes. Don't made the mistake to thing that this would never happen in your own country (or that is not happening right now).
Spanish society does not have any part to play on this power and lies game but... "Spain is evil, yadah, yadah, we want independence, yadah, yadah, etc". Yep. Obviously elections in Catalonia have started again. We had heard this before.
Irrelevant at the Spanish level? You sound like you consume too much Spanish media if you say that. Of course they don't give this much relevance, as with everything concerning the elites. In any country with decent media, this man and his scandals would make plenty of front pages.
It does very often, it used to be a common political weapon, but a blackmailer can only take that long in the news, and as pointed out it was just basic blackmailing. Politically it is interesting to keep the attention on such things for people interested on sell bad image, the same as any other country.
Great, thanks for the clarification, I edited my original comment because I guess it was out of place the way the question was made. Personally, I've seen way less interesting articles here on HN though...
