Spain: Unity in Diversity. DENOUNCED Spain is a subject with individual personality problems. Finding your identity is submerged in an ocean of prejudice, which pits its parts and does not promote the right to "everything." As a prototype of insecurity, Spain seeks similarities with the other nations. Who knows if low self-esteem or psychotic mania, Spain is rich in cheap copies, corporate piracy that is manifested in a range of
"transplants" hard take-home. Pray with the philosophy based on Germanic, now with the French idiosyncrasy, Spain is able to host an Austrian institution (such as the Constitutional Court) and at the same time a clear symmetry Civil Code Napoleon. The core of the national operation is a symbiosis of foreign institutions. What example of internationalism, Spain are blinded consolidated solutions instead of rejoicing in their own possibilities as diverse reality.
recently has become especially hard on "debate territorial "that opposes" peripheral nationalisms "and" nationalism centripetal or centralizing. "
Statements like those of the former President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Jordi Pujol , serve only as a reply to those made by other politicians, including former Prime Minister, José María Aznar
. Beyond citing Pla and considered the heir of the "great politicians" of Catalonia in early s. Late twentieth century XIX, Aznar, like the rest of English, you should consider, with striving for objectivity, about "everything" that is Spain, and these "parts" which serve as a substrate. Without hiding my position favorable to the integration of Portugal in a single State, it would be interesting to start to clear variables and unknowns, giving Spain diverse and multicultural reflection that characterizes him.
From Madrid we tend to talk about the "French model" as an example of efficiency. Clearly inherited from Bourbon, the idea of \u200b\u200bbuilding a great capital to overshadow the rest of Hispanic cities is one of the great constants in English history in recent centuries. The radial pattern of our communications (ignoring the "Corridor of the Mediterranean, for example) is one of the legacies that this has led, yet the damage of identity that the idea has provoked. Posts
to cite statements by recognized national policy, I will not forget the recent
words spoken by the current President of the Congress of Deputies (former President of the Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-la Mancha). He spoke with his usual sarcasm, the "problem" in their time with the necessary choice of capital for Castilla-la Mancha. Not having a "historical settings, and economic consolidation as a unit, must be wielding a criterion, so weak in practice, such as being the former capital of the Visigoth Kingdom and capital of the English Empire with Charles V, to choose to Toledo as a place where
place the regional parliament of Castilla-la Mancha.
-think if someone is coming, is that the era of "one size fits all" is running out. Social indicators, economic, cultural ... and even sentimental, we show that there are rather few regions with sufficient autonomy and historical identity to justify their self-government and decentralization. Indeed, these regions, for some "nations" are two: Basque Country - Navarre and Catalonia.
Hegemony Paris in a state with clear and hegemonic capital does not exist in Spain. Until very recently the English industry "centralized" in the periphery, whether at Barcelona, \u200b\u200bSabadell, Mataró, Eibar, Sestao and Portugalete. The existence of peripheral industries, of course, led to the birth of large capital peripherals, or whatever it is, powerful peripheral bourgeoisie. Focusing on the case I know best, because Catalan, arguably the history of "Catalan" is the story of the Catalan bourgeoisie.
is defensible, while legitimate, that the existence of centripetal powers to make centralizing power in conflict with lots of resistance. You want to impose a decision from Madrid, or consider the Dean of a professional or an agency head should be, by nature, he who occupies the chair of the Manzanares, not only legitimate but counterproductive. Spain in recent times has made these practices, and it is not surprising that there are counterpart sovereign move, taking advantage of the wrong people in certain regions, serving the interests of the bourgeoisie peripheral claiming ownership.
The difference can not continue mostránsose as a scourge. Euskadi that are "very much Bilbao and the Royal Society, and in Catalonia "very Barca", no longer a symptom chart what actually happens. From the moment you want to impose a selfish, abnormal vision of reality in English history, as has been done in recent times, is justifying nationalist anomalies arising to doubt the population of important concepts such as are to: "sovereignty", "State", "freedom" or "Nation" (in a liberal sense of the term). We need to finish building a "state" and leave the guise of "disguised centralism." We I genuinely enjoy own diversity, not that we are copying foreign models.
Much damage was the one that produced the Franco and all the mythology of the rig. The era of "English Empire" is not characterized by a centralization (imposed by the Bourbon monarchs after the War of Succession). Spain was born as a union of kingdoms, not a product of Iberian conquests. The prism of the capital, seeking their similarities with Paris, he is showing that it is emotionally valid. We must begin to think that the Reconquista began not only in Covadonga and that something had to see, too, the Franks of Charlemagne in Catalonia. We must realize that the Castilian is our common language, but there are other necessary preservation languages \u200b\u200blike
Catalan or Galician. Very graphic ... Has anyone thought that "Valencia del Cid was an autonomous entity? Or that if English Naples was at one time was "because" of the Crown of Aragon, Castilla not?
precisely the language issue is one of the most difficult. Not only from the center, but also, and far from the periphery, has wielded as a weapon. Leaving aside charters, decrees, wars and revolutions, that Catalan is a language "with power" and strong protection, effectively, is more due to the existence of a bourgeoisie with capital to heroic battles. What sets the Catalan language, or one of the factors that do, the probable or Aragonese, is the existence of a powerful social class has been preserved. Catalan literature is the official who has followed the path from the Pompeu Fabra Renaixença to, through the Noucentisme (all bourgeois movements).
With Fabra greatest exponent, the creation of a language "separate scientifically" has been used in politics. It matters little that the Castilian and Catalan (especially certain adjacent regions, see Valencia and Lleida) are so similar. It's something, just not a little similar to what happened with the Italian, so similar to the Castilian in Neapolitan version, but different from the official, imposed from the north.
Chants of "Long live Spain" at the Bernabeu every time you play for Barcelona or a Basque team,
denial of links with Real Madrid Mataró bourgeoisie who created it or the language of "Polish" "catalufos" and so little help. Reinvent a prosperous country before distributing the bait. Get a Spain united in diversity and not a tension that benefits the leaders among the hyenas.
Pictures: Look at the symbolism that I wanted to express placing two paintings by Titian (great painter "Empire") with his works: "Allegory of time governed by prudence" and his famous portrait of Charles V and a table Goya's "Duel with cudgels, as appropriate for modern times ...
