Actually, by Spanish standards, maybe I am kind of a fascist

Let the hand-wringing about my Spanish skills begin. The occasional person who tells me I speak Spanish really well is not correct. They're either being unnecessarily polite or they have really low expectations of foreigners' ability to learn their language. Even if I speak a little better than I give myself credit for, I catch myself making huge mistakes all the time, and I must make tons more that I don't even realize. Anyway, I'm clearly a foreigner. I have an accent and I can't roll my r's very well. (Incidentally, I'm meeting more and more people who had to go to speech class as kids because they couldn't roll their r's right -- I wonder how the sound developed as part of the language if lots of people can't do it even as kids.) I can deal with the fact that I don't sound Spanish. But I really, really, really hope that the guy who told me I sound like a Nazi when I speak Spanish was full of scheiße. (Even if I do believe companies should be allowed to fire people.)