Livia, you made me think of what the primary and most prevelant product America consumes today is. It is fear. What added to this persective for me is the contrast you describe when we are compared to Europe. As a septuagenarian, I have watched America devolve into this state throughout my lifetime. Even in the ‘50s, we are asked to crawl under our desks in elementary school as a sheild from a nuclear attack by those evil Russians. We all have gradeshool desks in our homes today just for that purpose (joke!). Please keep sharing your ground level experiences regarding the social differences between the US and Spain. We all need to realize how demeaning and immobilizing the product called “fear” is in our daily lives.