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What do you mean by discouraged? I'm from the US and my wife is from Barcelona. Her family all speaks Catalan between each other but they are perfectly happy s
by tumblen 9y ago
What do you mean by discouraged?
I'm from the US and my wife is from Barcelona. Her family all speaks Catalan between each other but they are perfectly happy speaking Spanish with me (as are all of their family's friends and associates).
Between my wife and her friends, they speak probably a 50/50 mix of Catalan/Spanish.
I have never heard or seen anyone in all of Catalunya be discouraging or negative in relation to speaking Spanish.
When I was first in Spain, the calls for independence were few and far between compared to now, but the situation hasn't improved so they continue to grow.
But the basis of those calls, from what I've seen, is primarily rooted in real, economic/political issues. They aren't calling for independence because they have a different language, but because Spain is not providing them with the fair share of resources they need to succeed and grow as a region.
- mbroncano 9y agoI can think of a few examples myself, such as fines for business daring to exposing public banners in Spanish [1] or the impossibility to study with Spanish as a vehicular language [2]. [1] https://www.google.com/amp/www.lavanguardia.com/politica/20120222/54258472506/generalitat-impuso-226-sanciones-comercios-por-no-rotular-catalan-2011.html%3Ffacet=amp https://www.google.com/amp/www.lavanguardia.com/politica/201... [2] https://www.google.com/amp/www.elconfidencialautonomico.com/cataluna/catalanes-estudiar-castellano-colegios-privados_0_2450754911.amp.html https://www.google.com/amp/www.elconfidencialautonomico.com/...
- gotbeans 9y agoSpanish is studied alongside with catalan. Out of 10 tv channels, 9 are in spanish. School is mostly taught in Catalan, so what? It's not a commodity, but you are abogating extinguishing a language for commodity? However I just see for the first time your [1], and as a totally pro-independentist person that I am, I totally condemnd that. Thats blatant catalan fuckup, that is unacceptable and that is not what my independentist rationale claim for.
- qiv 9y agoWell, the region grows better than almost any Spanish region (except maybe the metropolitan area of Madrid) and they saved their banks when the crisis hit them first ;-)