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Attitudes and Cultural Patterns in SpanishProverbs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

Joseph Raymond*
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University, Ogontz Center, Pennsylvania

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AS A MAN’S SPEECH MIRRORS HIS THOUGHTS, so do a people’s proverbs reflectdominant attitudes and cultural patterns. Many observers have felt that theenormous store of Spanish proverbs should afford great insight into theSpanish way of life. Yet, to the writer’s knowledge, no one has attemptedsystematically to demonstrate or to reject this notion. The purpose of thispaper is to arrange into an over-all picture certain prevalent attitudes andcultural patterns suggested in Spanish proverbs. The original proverbssupporting these patterns are quoted in footnotes. Examples are suggestive,but no means exhaustive, since in many cases the list would number severalhundred items.

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Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1955 

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