Bien podría usted emplear el tiempo en otra cosa. –¿En qué mejor que en contemplar esa cara de azucena? (Nicolás Díaz de Benjumea ¿1881?: 113).

The plan of action of costumbrists falls progressively into what it previously reported, that is to say, in majismo, tipismo and picturesqueness (vid. González Troyano 2018: 39-46). And all this to conclude that, as far as the Andalusian variety is concerned, their representations, present in these texts, concern only the working class (for the desire to confer humour, sparkle, panache on their characters…); they do not respond to a faithful desire to reproduce the Andalusian variety, since it is above all a stereotype; and, finally, they constitute one more resource of the costumbrist genre in order to give the plot greater humour. In short, a tradition that has transcended outside literature and that has come true not because of its linguistic existence as a variety (since it is not spoken by anyone), but because of its recurrence in imitating Andalusian, similar to what happened with sayagués or gauchesco of the Golden Literature and from the region of Río de la Plata, respectively (vid. Coseriu 1981 [1973]: 312-313).

2.3. The linguistic route

2.3.1. Continuity of hate speech

As one of the manifestations of the Andalusian hate speech, the inferiorisation process contemplated in the philological perspective is also transmitted through Linguistics. The sources are not entertainment products –archaic or contemporary– now, but the Spanish media, especially opinion content. Both in the 19th century’s tradition and in modern audiovisual speeches, the stereotype about Andalusian is surrounded by a halo of innocence. Despite disguise (through its association with grace, vivacity, humour or friendliness as an object of anthropological study), the value is negative because it serves to insist on the topic, to increase it and, therefore, maintain it. The absence of conflicts is added to the hierarchisation that has been discussed before in series such as Allí abajo (2015) (vid. 2.2.): the person who is above looks at the person who is below (at their low knowledge and social level) with condescension, an even with tenderness, in a very similar way to which the western person (belonging to the developed world) looks, from an ethnocentric perspective, at the noble savage. Thus, for example, that can be observed in the following sample, taken from Barbijaputa on his blog Zona Crítica:

No sé cuántas veces he oído desde que vivo fuera de Andalucía frases como “tienes un acento bonito para ser andaluza”, “no eres nada bruta para ser andaluza”, “no eres la típica andaluza…” y en el aire queda flotando un “la típica andaluza… cateta”. Sé que no hay ánimo de ofender y que, es más, me lo dicen como un halago, sin darse cuenta de que hay implícito un claro sentimiento de superioridad (Eldiario.es, 03.05.2015).5