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> catalan-speaking people is, well, a people, and it has the right to decide, alone, about its future What about spanish-speaking people? Are they not also cat
by kgwgk 7y ago
> catalan-speaking people is, well, a people, and it has the right to decide, alone, about its future
What about spanish-speaking people? Are they not also catalans? Is “your country” not theirs?
Paraphrasing what you said, somehow, the spanish language is "less catalan" than the catalan language. I find this idea illogical, and the fact that you seriously espouse it is deeply outraging.
- enriquto 7y ago> What about spanish-speaking people? Are they not also catalans? No, they aren't. They are spanish. As Fernando Pessoa said: my homeland is my language.
- kgwgk 7y agoSo they don’t have the right to decide about their future. Ok. Will they be expelled from your country or will they have a chance to stay as foreigners in their own land?
- enriquto 7y ago> Will they be expelled from your country Of course not. Why do you say that? They will only have to respect the local law; probably nothing will change for them in practice, unless they want to work in a public service and they cannot already speak catalan. Unless they cannot stand to live in a place where spanish is not official. In that case, well, they will easily find twenty countries with five hundred million spanish-speakers where they will feel truly at home. Problem is, as a catalan I have nowhere else to go.
- kgwgk 7y agoWill they be catalans then, even though you don't consider them catalans now? Everything is very confusing.