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I think the comparison in situation/contrast in international attention being made is more between Catalonia and Hong Kong. There's certainly a ton of other imp

I think the comparison in situation/contrast in international attention being made is more between Catalonia and Hong Kong. There's certainly a ton of other important issues causing the unrest, but there is a certain element of xenophobia/ superiority complex in play in Hong Kong as well, that has been simmering for many years. https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3032041/hong-kongs-hatred-mainlanders-feeds-xenophobic-undercurrents-its https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3032041/hong-ko...?

oldmanthrowit 7y ago
It's really apples and hamburgers. Hong Kong is being controlled by a brutal dictatorship which killed 30 million of it's own people over the past century. Catalonia is the rich part of Spain not liking the poorer part of spain. That's it. Catalonians are the embodiment of the western view of the French. The French, it turns out, are mostly not elitist jerks. Catalonians, no matter what you ask them about Spain, instantly respond with "Oh that's spanish, not Catalan, I don't know anything about that". It's absurd posturing, and nothing more. Just like BRexiters, Catalonians have the erroneous notion that their wealth comes to them without any influence by the rest of their society, it's essentially cultural objectivism.