“…and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
- Are Catalan nationalists like Carles Puigdemont Founding Fathers or Confederate separatists?
- I’m not convinced by the “causes which impel” Catalans to separation. Are you?
- I’m hoping Catalans don’t goad Madrid and Rajoy into doing something stupid.
- Read . But especially scroll through the comments; the scariest ones that should give you more pause and where the dangers of Catalan separatism become clearest should jump out at you. There you’ll see the racist self-righteousness of “little nation” nationalism in all its smug, bourgeois glory.
- Whenever a Catalan uses or writes “Castille” that means reactionary, Catholic, Black Legend Spain where — as one comment gallingly states — “things haven’t changed much since Franco.” Andalucía is cool and Moorish. The Basque Country is wealthy, enterprising and progressive like us, even if they’re a little too Catholic for our tastes. Galicia is the sweet, melancholy home of Celtic troubadours. It’s Castille and Aragon — oh, and Asturias, which gave birth to the ugly ideology of the Reconquista — the kingdoms of the barbarous “Reyes Católicos”, that are oppressing us.
- Substitute “Serbia” for “Castille” and you’ll get an amazing repro of Croatian gripes. We’re European and forward-looking — even if kinna the kings of post-Hapsburg noxious fascism; don’t leave us to the mercy of obscurantist, Orthodox, Serb savages.
- Read Vasily Grossman in “…the nationalism of little nations“ on Armenians and what the nationalist is really about.
- Read Vargas Llosa about how “…Nationalism effaces the individual…“.
- Where’s Almodóvar, the face of the Madrileña “movida” from La Mancha, where “nothing has changed much since Franco” to give us his opinion? I’m sure he has one.
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