why do you say this............have you proof or only a feeling?
If he is a Galician , then recent castilian laws preventing galician to be taught in schools could be the issue. The EU ( minority languages organisation part ) is reviewing the issue. Same happened to Welsh a few years back and now ( the welsh ) they can speak welsh in the welsh parliament.
To me, trying to eliminate anyone's mother tongue is the same as genicide
http://www.vozbcn.com/2010/02/11/9827/empresarios-sancionados-rotular-castellano/
http://ecodiario.eleconomista.es/es...comercios-por-rotular-solo-en-castellano.html
http://noltros.com/documentacion/infiltraciones-catalanistas/details/4-air-berlin-denuncia-el-abuso-del-catalan-y-la-discriminacion-del-espanol?cid=1%3Agovern-balea
He makes a mistake and does not know very well how are you the situation in Spain. At present the regional languages Galician, Catalan and Basque are used by the nazi.onalistas regionalists as political weapon and form of discrimination between the Spanish. The parents who want that his children study in Castilian cannot do it, when the Castilian is the common language of all the Spanish. In Catalonia the businessmen who label his commerce in Castilian sound fined with the so-called linguistic sanctions for the Catalan government; it belongs to madmen they fine for labelling in the language of the country, but they withstand signs in Arab, Pakistani or any other language. It is the Spanish - speaker of these regions those that need the review and protection of the U.E.
Air Berlin denounces the abuse of the Catalan and the discrimination of Spanish
Last March 8, 2006 a report of the Department of State of the United States was denouncing the clear discrimination of the Castilian in regions as Catalonia.
The report that treats the human rights in Spain reveals the following thing:
" The languages or dialects that the son are used apart from Spanish in 6 of 17 Spanish regions. The constitution stipulates that the citizens have " the duty " it of knows the Castilian, which is the official language of the state; nevertheless, also it stipulates that other languages could be official in accordance with regional articles of association affirming that " the changes of language different from the country are a cultural heritage that will be protected.
The laws in these regions promote the " not Castilian " languages in schools and governmental activities. The critics affirm that these efforts to promote the employment of " not Castilian " languages make difficult to the Spanish - speaker the power to live and to work in these regions. "
The autonomic Administration hinders the recognition of the right of the parents or tutors to which his children receive the first education in Castilian, neither reporting of the existence of the same one not even facilitating his application. Be enough to verify that the income of school preinscription, between his numerous paragraphs, does not contemplate the possibility of the parents to decide in favour of the language - Catalan or Spanish - in which they wish his children receive education.
[video]http://video.google.es/videoplay?docid=40140527952471546#[/video]
The series of video Ciudadanos de segunda (Citizens of second) reveals the discrimianción who suffers the Spanish in Catalonia.