well the arragance of French, US-Americans and English comes out of the recent imperial experiences. Spain has been humbled by the lost of her colonies relatively early on and then the Franco isolationism has created another layer of curiousity about others. At least that is what I think. I have lived in Hungary, Cyprus and India and generally people are pretty friendly and wanting only to talk English which is annoying you are trying to learn Hungarian, Greek, Turkish or one of the languages in India like Tamil or Hindi or Gujarati or Punjabi. When I am in Europe most people think I am German, Slavic or Scandinavian and when in India most thought I was French, German or even Israeli, because those are the big tourists there and because I am not loud like Australians. By the way I am Cascadian (Pacific NorthWestern American).

As for the girl in the picture. It is not the pronunciation of "umbrella" that seems out of wack. Its her total look of wonder like "wow that is an amazing devise is it for cleaning toilets out or something?"