The ‘malafolla’ It is one of the particularities that defines the character of any self-respecting granaíno. And, as usually happens with clichés, far from wanting to correct it, it is a source of pride for many in this holy land. Others, on the other hand, deny it and attribute it to a banal and interested cliché from Spain Cañí. But the latter have run out of excuses why Preplyone of the largest platforms specializing in language learning, commissioned a study to find out which are the rudest cities in Spain and, “Oh, surprise…!”, Granada is in second place, behind only Santa Tenerife.
Before anyone could be tempted to attribute the results of the analysis to an alleged envy of the rest of the Spaniards towards Granada for its wonders and singularities, or even to the bad faith of those who have been in charge of preparing the study, it is necessary to clarify that the survey which produced these results was conducted among the inhabitants of each of the cities. In other words, we have “malafollá” and we not only recognize it, but it also bothers us.
And is that the fieldwork measures the opinion that, in each city, residents have about the level of education that their fellow citizens display in the 12 areas most likely to show a lack of courtesy towards others. To do this, more than 1,500 residents of 19 urban agglomerations in Spain were interviewed and asked how often they encounter rude behaviour, their opinion on tipping and who they think are the rudest, people there or those outside. short, moreover only 19 areas of Spain had to be selected and Granada was among them. A complete success. By the way, regarding the “tip”,Spoilers!, the topic of the ‘land of the chavico’.
But let’s go step by step, not by ‘thrones’ as the Malagasy say. Among the main conclusions, the preliminary survey One stands out: “The three rudest cities in Spain are Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Granada and Alicante-Elche. Compared to the average of 5.53, these metropolitan areas scored 6.06, 5.95 and 5.81 respectively. in list, a city with which there has been some rivalry since Granada won promotion to the First Division in 2011 in the same stadium as the Elche team.
Behind Granada are San Sebastián, Bilbao, Palma (of Mallorca), Barcelona, Málaga and Valladolid. The Madrileños, as presumed to be in the center as always, barely occupy tenth place. This publisher hopes that they will also end up in La Liga. And, from there, the less rough, rather than uneducated, areas are in ascending order Cadiz, Seville (above), Zaragoza, Las Palmas, Oviedo-Gijón-Avilés, Murcia-Orihuela, Valencia, La Coruña-Oleiros-Arteixo and Vigo . In other words, it’s not enough for the Galicians to stay at the State Agency for Artificial Intelligence, but what’s more they are more likeable than their opponents in Granada and Alicante.
Rude guide, at the restaurant and in line at the ‘super’
In addition to revealing which cities in Spain have the best and worst manners, the aim of the study was also to find out which are the most frequent rude behaviors throughout the territory. The results showed that being glued to the phone all the time was the most common thing. Another list also includes the cities surveyed that scored the highest in each of the behaviors. And from 12, Grenada leads up to three. Well, don’t say it. They are as follows: ‘do not let other cars pass when there is traffic’, you could not have known; ‘be rude to service personnel’, because if the waiter comes 600 times, 600 times you should say ‘thank you’, as one colleague reminds us on Twitter; and finally, ‘skip the line’, not to say we are always the last in everything. For example, those from Bilbao would be the ones who speak the loudest in public, and those from San Sebastián don’t seem very inclined to welcome outsiders. Nor could it be known.
In all cities, 21.25% believe that non-residents are ruder than residents. And Granada is the fourth metropolitan area in Spain that perceives more that those who come from outside “give hell” more than the Granadans themselves. Next, Palma, Valladolid and A Coruña; behind, Las Palmas (of Gran Canaria). And on the opposite side, the people of Tenerife, Cádiz, Vigo and Zaragoza are the ones who mostly feel that their inhabitants are more annoying than those who visit them.
‘Malafollás’ and above ‘chavicos’
If you confirm with the scientific method what the ‘malafolla’ the backpack was not enough, what’s more we also have to carry the weight of the fact that the survey of Preply also corroborate the argument of the ‘cavico’. And is that the study dedicates a section to find out how much the bells of bars ring according to the place where they are. To do this, respondents were asked to select the statements with which they most agreed from the options below: “I usually tip”, “I only tip if the service was great”, “in my city people don’t usually tip”, “tipping is a good habit and not doing it is a bad gesture”, “tipping wouldn’t help if the pay was good”, “in my city it is normal to tip”, “I don’t usually tip”, “in my city people usually tip”, and “none of the above”.
At the same time, residents were asked how much money they used to tip. Of all the data collected, we calculated the average amount citizens usually tip in each city to find out who are the most and least stingy on a scale of one to ten.
Of the nearly twenty cities analyzed, Valladolid takes the cake the “most generous” of the “rats”, as they would say in La Chana, with a percentage of 10.18%. This is followed by Las Palmas, A Coruña, Cádiz, Vigo and Barcelona, whose inhabitants break the cliché that Catalans are sticky. And after a long and boring list finally Granada appears in a worthy fourth place… By the queue! With 6.59%, the inhabitants of Granada demonstrate that they too belong to the ‘Brotherhood of the clenched fist’. Luckily those of Murcia-Orihuela, San Sebastián and Santa Cruz de Tenerife are worse off. To take into consideration: in all of them there are gastronomic concepts similar to tapas. In Murcia, the seafood snack; in San Sebastian, the snacksand in Santa Cruz de Tenerife there is nothing, but nobody will be able to say that I don’t ‘wet’.
Methodology: from 2 to 7 November 2022, 1,567 participants were interviewed in the 19 largest areas of the country. To participate in the survey, conducted by Censuswide, it was mandatory to have been a resident for at least 12 months. Of all the participants, 736 identified as male and 831 as female.
To calculate the most and least polite cities, participants were asked how often they witnessed the 12 most common rude behaviors in their area of residence. Subsequently, the data obtained was averaged to calculate the average rudeness score by city to rank them.
