Maybe the same thing happens in Spain, but other way around, that Europeans in particular Western Europe always try to relate to Spain to Africa and yet it revealed that despite the proximity of Spain to Africa in the Spanish sense Africa is farther than America May be the reason for the obsession of some Spanish and Spanish to show that the similarities are in any way whatsoever with Northern Europe, however I believe that with our large and splendid Spanish culture we do not have to prove anything to anyone, we and Spanish only, we are not Vikings nor African.