Which Reminds Me

The Spanish song, "Sombrero de Ala Ancha," (meaning "Wide-brimmed Hat") talks abstractly about Latin American women as being lazy, of golden skin (meaning brown), and smelling of tobacco, cane and tar. Some of them took this song to heart and have worked themselves up into a snit to prove themselves hard-working smokers as opposed to lazy non-smoking white people like me. This is not even a white people's song so we would need a translator to even get all the pieces of this together. It is a song written in the Spanish language written and popularized by Basque signers. Basques are not really Spaniards. They are a minority people living in Spain whose native tongue is something other than Spanish. Basques consider themselves the "other" Spain but that would be misleading because Catalans are the "other" Spain and also Gallegos are the "other" Spains. Spain has several minority groups and Spanish is only the most dominant language of that country, not the only language. So this is really not our problem. We are English-speaking non-smokers whose livelihood is in no way dependent on tobacco so basically Spain is not our problem. We have never even been there and only picked up on the song more recently. So?