Entrevista al papa Francisco: "La secesión de una nación hay que tomarla con pinzas"

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¿Le preocupa el conflicto entre Catalunya y España?

Toda división me preocupa. Hay independencia por emancipación y hay independencia por secesión. Las independencias por emancipación, por ejemplo, son las americanas, que se emanciparon de los estados europeos. Las independencias de pueblos por secesión es un desmembramiento, a veces es muy obvio. Pensemos en la antigua Yugoslavia. Obviamente, hay pueblos con culturas tan diversas que ni con cola se podían pegar. El caso yugoslavo es muy claro, pero yo me pregunto si es tan claro en otros casos, en otros pueblos que hasta ahora han estado juntos. Hay que estudiar caso por caso. Escocia, la Padania, Catalunya. Habrán casos que serán justos y casos que no serán justos, pero la secesión de una nación sin un antecedente de unidad forzosa hay que tomarla con muchas pinzas y analizarla caso por caso.

http://www.lavanguardia.com/internacional/20140612/54408951579/entrevista-papa-francisco.html

Our English translation:

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Are you concerned about the conflict between Catalonia and Spain?

All divisions worry me. There's independence by emancipation and independence by secession. Independence by emancipation, for example, that of American countries, that were emancipated from European states. The independence of peoples by secession is a break, sometimes this is very obvious. Think of the former Yugoslavia. Obviously, the people there had such diverse cultures that they wouldn't stick together even with glue. The Yugoslav case is very clear, but I wonder if it is as clear in other cases, in other peoples that have been together up to now. They need to be studied case by case. Scotland, Padania, Catalonia. There will be cases that are fair and cases that are not fair, but the secession of a people without a prior history of forced unity must be looked at with great caution, and be analyzed case by case.

QUIERO SER ASÍ

An interesting and disturbing example of Fascist indoctrination for primary schools in postwar Spain.

The 176 page book can be downloaded here (PDF): ASÍ QUIERO SER, de Herederos de Santiago Rodríguez (Burgos 1940)

Just one example: "La nación española cuenta con veinticuatro millones de habitantes por cuyas venas corre sange latina; hablan el idioma castellano y profesan la Religión católica, apostólica, romana." (p. 7)

LOVE SHAK, by Matthew Tree

Catalonia Today article for May, by Matthew Tree, about Shakira...


Shakira lives in Barcelona, goes out with and has had a son by a Barça footballer, and her last name is the distinctly Catalan one of Ripoll. She must have known somewhere along the line that sooner or later she was going to sing at least one song in Spain's second language, and in the end she chose 'Boig per tu' ('Crazy About You') composed by Pep Sala in 1990, and made famous by the band Sau, of which Sala was one of the two frontmen ...

LOVE SHAK, par Matthew Tree (traduction française)

Voici la traduction en français d'un article récent («Loveshak ») de Matthew Tree, écrivain anglais résidant en Catalogne depuis déjà pas mal d'années, publié dans sa colonne régulière « Long term resident » de l'hebdomadaire Presència du 27 avril 2014 (M-A.S.F.)

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LOVE SHAK

Shakira habite à Barcelone, y promène son enfant, qu'elle a eu d'un footballeur du Barça, et a un nom de famille qui est celui distinctement catalan de Ripoll. Elle a dû savoir à un moment donné de leur relation que tôt ou tard elle allait chanter au moins une chanson dans la deuxième langue de l'Espagne, et enfin elle a choisi Boig per tu (Fou de toi) ...

Erklärung aus La Pedrera

Barcelona, den 28. Februar 2014

Am 23. Februar war die Kommissarin für Justiz und Menschenrechte und Vizepräsidentin der Europäischen Kommission, Frau Viviane Reding, so liebenswürdig, bei einem Besuch in Barcelona einige der Prioritäten und Hauptanliegen der Europäischen Union in einem besonders schwierigen Moment ihrer Geschichte darzulegen.

In diesem Dokument möchten wir diesbezüglich einige Ausführungen machen, die sowohl die Kommissarin als auch die Öffentlichkeit zum Nachdenken anregen sollen. Sie nehmen Bezug auf mehrere Wortmeldungen aus dem Publikum in der anschließend erfolgten Diskussion. 

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La Declaración de "La Pedrera"

En español.

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L'Appel de 'La Pedrera'

En français
(2e version)

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Màster Oficial d'Estudis Catalans

El màster universitari en Estudis catalans de la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya permet assolir una comprensió àmplia i rigorosa de la cultura catalana a partir de la pluralitat de les seves manifestacions....

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Declaration of the Rights of the Catalan Nation,1966

In 1966, a group of Catalan exiles met in Mexico to hold the Second National Conference. On June 26 they adopted a "Declaration of Rights of the Catala Nation", which was published by the Catalan National Council in England (where Josep Maria Batista i Roca ran the General Secretariat in Cambridge) the following year...

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The “La Pedrera” Declaration

In English

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Declaració de La Pedrera

Barcelona, 28 de febrer de 2014 

El 23 de febrer la Comissària de Justícia, Drets Humans i Ciutadania i Vicepresidenta de la Comissió Europea, madame Viviane Reding, ha tingut l'amabilitat de visitar Barcelona, per exposar, de primera mà, algunes de les línies prioritàries i principals preocupacions de la Unió Europea, en un moment especialment delicat de la seva història. En aquest document volem fer unes precisions per a la seva reflexió i la de la ciutadania en general, reflexions suscitades per diferents intervencions del públic durant el debat.

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False Valencian quotations

There are truly crazy theories about the origin of Valencian, which was the name given, in the region, to the way the descendants of the colonists from (particularly Western) Catalonia spoke.  
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Bibliografia polítiques lingüístiques del català

Índex

• General Països Catalans
• Catalunya
• Illes Balears
• País Valencià
• Aragó
• Estat espanyol
• Andorra
• Estat francès
• Itàlia
• Marc internacional

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International press coverage of 16/1 vote in the Catalan Parliament

A very small sample of the international press coverage of yesterday's (16/1/2014) vote in the Catalan Parliament, to formally request the transfer of organization and organization of a referendum on Catalonia's independence, from central government to the Catalan authorities, adopted by 87 ayes to 43 nays and 3 abstentions.

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There will be independence, because there will be no referendum. An opinion and a forecast. Article by Manuel Delgado

http://manueldelgadoruiz.blogspot.com.es/2013/12/habra-independencia-porque-no-habra.html　

(translated in house)

December 13 2013

The truth is I do not regard myself an acute political analyst or anything like that, but I`m going to indulge myself, without this being a precedent, by sharing a personal insight into what is going on in Catalonia and what I think will happen. I refer of course to the vexed (for many) issue of the so-called sovereignty process, and which I now see as simply irrevocable and will in a few months' time lead to a new state in Europe...

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Languages and geo-coded Wikipedia articles in Spain

Interesting article on "Geographic intersections of languages in Wikipedia": http://geography.oii.ox.ac.uk/2013/12/geographic-intersections-of-languages-in-wikipedia/

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Tweets in Catalan

From: Interactive Google Maps Mash-ups

Interesting maps of the language of tweets, in Catalonia (1. all languages), the Catalan countries (2. all languages; 3. Catalan; 4. English) and Iberia (5. all languages).

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More Catalan footprints in Australia: the Paronellas

Josep Paronella and his wife Margarita - I imagine the first photo was taken for their wedding, in 1925! - were not a classic Catalan couple. He'd been working - and saving money - in Australia for 12 years, as explained here, when he returned to Catalonia to court a Catalan girl...

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Minorcans in Florida

British Florida Food History: Andrew Turnbull’s New Smyrna Colony
"The New Smyrna settlement was the product of British attempts to populate Florida with colonists who would benefit the Crown. Britain had obtained Florida and the Mediterranean island of Minorca from Spain in 1763, following a global war involving several European powers.

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Madrid newspaper editor threatens the Catalans

Pedro J. Ramírez, editor of the "El Mundo" Madrid-based newspaper, has issued a scarcely veiled threat to the Catalans via twitter.

"81% of EM.es voters support the army having deposed the Islamists [in Egypt]. The key: ballot boxes don't allow just anything. Is that clear?"

The Catalan digital newspaper Vilaweb has reported the tweet. It also reminded readers that shortly after the massive September 11 2012 demonstration organised by the Assemblea Nacional Catalana, which brought together 1·5 million people in the streets of Barcelona, Ramírez wrote an editorial calling for a change in the penal code to allow the spanish authorities to amend the Penal Code so that President Mas could be imprisoned if he called a referenduim on independence.

Another Catalan digital newspaper, Nació Digital, has also added its horrified comment on the tweet.

His resolute opposition to Catalonia's independence process, and his lack of respect for ther will of the Catalan people, were well displayed on the night of the last election to the Parliament of Catalonia, where the newspaper's efforts to interfere in the campaign by releasing trumped-up police reports falsely accusing Catalan leaders of corruption were reflected in his tweet saying that the El Mundo newsroom celebrated the results - the ruling coalition lost 90,000 votes - as if it were their own victory.