Affiliate Marketing Secrets

Many countries have negative stuff associated to them. For example, the Italian mafia, the Russian mafia, the Japanise Yakuza, the Chinese triads.
Other have problems with the drug trade, for example Colombia and Mexico, or child poverty, like Brazil and the favelas.
Others have a bad reputation as tax havens, like Switzerland, because the took and hide the gold stolen to the Jews during the Hollocaust by the nazis.
USA has problems with shootings and gang violence.
The Muslim world has a problem with radicals an terrorism.
But Spain is never associated to any negative stuff. Ok, the economy is a bit slow now, and they have a high unemplyoment rate, but other that that, the opinion of everybody about Spain is very possible. Paella, fiesta, sun, bullfighting…everything seems to be positive about Spain.
I wonder why? Is it a marketing trick? Or is really Spain that good?
PS, There are other countries with a very good image, of course, like Canada, New Zealand, Norway, etc. What’s the secret?

Ok, so i have been dating my girlfriend for just over 10 months and it’s going really well. I’m English and she’s Russian (Obviously) and we met at University through a society. Since then we have been getting on really well, she’s fantastic and she’s studying Fashion so she knows how to dress to impress. Her father sent her here to study in England and paid for all her fees up front. Whenever she needs money, her father will send her money to support her. She told her father & mother that she was dating an English guy (me) and they told her to bring me over to Russia to meet them, so we went over to Russia to meet them. When i got there, we pulled up to this huge estate set on a few aches of land, big huge gates at the front of house, and surveillance every 20 ft until the entrance. It really felt like i was about to enter a high security building like the White house or something. When we got there my girlfriend’s mother showed us in and made me feel really welcome, but her father was out on “business” at the time. Anyway, my girlfriend showed me around and took me to the stables to show me her horses. Well after we finished, we walked back to the house and her father got out of a black limousine with a briefcase, so my girlfriend ran over to him and hugged him, he looked delighted to see her. Then he came to me and shook my hand (really hard lol) and said in thick broken English “Hello [my name] nice to meet you, hope you are treating my daughter well” i was little intimidated to be honest. Anyway, we all went out later that evening for dinner at the local restaurant, which was a really nice place.
To cut a long story short, my girlfriend’s father’s phone rang, he looked at it and went outside to speak. He came back in to the restaurant and finished dinner, then said he had to go deal with some business. His wife and my girlfriend looked fine about it, he then gave some money to his wife, then left. When my girlfriend and her mother got back to the house, 5 guys, 3 dressed in black suits, 1 in a silver suit who looked quite slick, and another guy who was dressed in a long leather jacket with a tattoo on the side of his neck were saying “goodbye” to my girlfriend’s father. We then went in the house, i went to the toilet and heard my girlfriend’s father getting irate on the phone in Russian.
Anyway, me and my girlfriend spent 1 month in Russia in which her father paid for everything we did! I kept seeing different guys, all looking slick (hair back) etc. I’m just curious as to whether my girlfriend’s father is Mafia affiliated. I did ask my girlfriend about 3 weeks ago what her father does, and she said he owns businesses but doesn’t know much about his work life. This made me think he could be Mafia Affiliated, do you think? I’m worried in case my girlfriend and i broke up, he could end up sending someone to kill me or something.