Somehow everyone agrees that European countries losing their overseas colonies was a good thing, but neighbouring colonies are considered inseparable parts of t

Somehow everyone agrees that European countries losing their overseas colonies was a good thing, but neighbouring colonies are considered inseparable parts of the nation that happened to be stronger. Think how you would feel if Spain was part of Portugal, France, Morocco, or Germany, Spanish language was a minority language in Spain, and you would have spent significant amount of time reading books or learning about the war or some other event that had changed the flow of history and led your country to not exist on the map. Disclaimer: I am not from Catalonia, but from a country that barely got organized in time to be a separate state, and i am happy about that, as smaller more local governments work better, than the very centralized and huge government we would have now if our separatists did not manage to organize in time.