Spaniards who came to the New World seeking opportunities beyond the prospects of their European environment are contemptuously called cruel and greedy goldseekers, or other opprobious epithets virtually synonymous with Devils; but Englishmen who sought New World opportunities are more respectfully called colonists, or homebuilders, or seekers after liberty (...) When the Spanish prosecuted religious dissidents, that was called bigotry and fanaticism ... When Dutchmen and Englishmen did the exact same thing, that was called unifying the nation.[6][page needed]