In your country, which foreigners are not really seen as foreigners as such?

[mitalit]

Your compatriots in this thread disagree - even CV regards Portuguese people as 'cousins', for example.

I think he is right. The difference between Ireland and the United Kingdom with Spain and Portugal is that in the British Isles everyone speaks English.
In Spain there is a great lack of knowledge about Portugal and this is probably reciprocal.

[placebo]

+ sometimes bosnians and albanians

i forgot + kurds. because they're part of turkey so i don't see turkish kurds as foreigners.

[Ruggery]

I think in certain regions of the United States, Mexicans are no longer seen as foreigners (in some areas they are more abundant than any other ethnicity). Any other Latin country would be considered foreign.

Puerto Ricans and Cubans?

[Roy]

I don't think there are such.

[Tooting Carmen]

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[Dick]

[capocannoniere]

Uruguayans in Argentina. Even the most nationalistic from each side won't disagree that differences are minor if not insignificant.

Don't think there is anything similar in Brazil though. Even Italians and Germans coming to the colonies will be pretty out of place, as post-unifications language and culture is quite different, most of us assimilated and when it comes to cultural habits had to adapt with stuff that did/does not exist here.

They say some Uruguayans on the border regions speak Portuguese and are pretty much in full and constant contact to the Brazilian side of the border, but idk if they would not really be seen as foreigners.

[hurtuv]

Spaniards and Brazilians are on a shallow level on "foreigness scale".

Me personally, I don't really have a such a strong sense of travelling abroad when going to Spain, unlike other places. I tend go there somewhat frequently.

I've made the trip from Coimbra to Valladolid and back on the same day sometimes, years ago, in a truck with my grandfather, to pick up some stuff for his company from suppliers over there. So you can sense that to be able to do that and come back on the same day doesn't really give a strong impression of going abroad. The relatively weak language barrier also helps (though this is somewhat one sided, as it is known that generally Portuguese people understand Spanish more than the other way around).
I've also spent about a week in two different summer holidays almost ten years ago helping him and his crew out, doing some repairs in a factory in Galicia. Most of the time I was driving around in a forklift xd, thanks to the lack of safety regulations on the matter back then , but that's no more ahaha. How fun, good times...
Last I was there was in the summer, hitchiking with two friends, from Vigo down through the coast to the border at the mouth of the Minho. Again, beautiful and not so foreing-feeling. Spain is nice .

[capocannoniere]

Spaniards and Brazilians are on a shallow level on "foreigness scale".

I'd say the same about the Portuguese and all of our fellow language speakers. That sense of cultural and personal "weirdness" we tend to feel with other nations is not there.

[Sarin]

'Foreigner' in popular sense of the term mostly connotes a Euro/white person . So it are the other South Asians like Srilankans , Nepalese , Bangladeshis , Rohingyas etc that are indistinguishable from their neighbouring Indian ethnicities respectively & hence not taken as foreigners on the face . Though socio-politically , RSS/BJP does their religious profiling & so Muslim ones among them have been derogated as foreigner especially Bangladeshi & Rohingyas (but not Afghan ones mind you since they are rather RAW's strategic assets)