Reply #15: Mrs. Smith lived in Santiago de Cuba for 25 years before she died.

[flordehinojos]

and never, ever, in those twenty-five years did she ever, ever, learn one word of spanish. She exemplifies the arrogance of sooo many americans who go abroad, do not speak the languages of the countries that they go to, do not mix with the locals of the countries that they go to, do not eat the foods of the countries that they go to,and they expect to be treated as kings and queens in the countries that they go to.