Franco
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- Location
- Somewhere in Spain
- Ethnic group
- Spanish (from Spain of course, not Mexican and such)
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- R1b
If your thinking was right, there would be no more castillan speakers in Catalonia. As a matter of fact, most castillan speakers that got their education through catalan and decided not to use it were not repressed nor expelled from Catalonia. Nobody gets a fine for speaking castillan. The Generalitat provides most forms citizens need in castillan too. I don't see any oppression in that. Only a small percentage of native castillan-speaking catalans moan about the linguistic laws. Most troublemakers are foreign immigrants or coming from other communities. Again, if these people do not understand Catalan is the language of Catalonia, there is little to do but to educate them, which is what the Generalitat does...
How come the Catalans who do not use the Catalan language would be expelled from Catalonia by the nationalists if there was repression? They don't do that because they can't, but don't be so sure that they wouldn't do it if they could. There are degrees of repression, from subtle to more agressive and blatant. But it's ok, it could be worse that not being able to study in Spanish. Thank you nationalists for leting us live.
I don't expect Spanish will dissapear even if all Catalans have to study 100% of subjects in Catalan at school like nowadays (aside from English language and Spanish). If Catalan itself didn't dissapear after centuries of the inverse situation (it was not possible to study in Catalan until 1975),then I guess a bigger language like Spanish won't either. But I don't care that Spanish will survive or not in Catalonia, which I take for granted, as much as the individual rights of the citizens. I think it's a civil right to study in your mother language in your own country, so as long as Catalonia is part of Spain Catalans who desire so have the right to study in Spanish. That only a few moan about this is true, but it's also true that only a few homosexuals wanted gay marriages in Spain and now it is a right for all of them. Rights are rights no matter how many people are interested in executing them and the Spanish law recognizes that both Spanish and Catalan are equally official. So even if just one Catalan wanted to study in Spanish he or she has the legal right. Democracy does not mean that majorities have the power to deny rights to minorities, assumed that a majority of Catalans who do not want to study in Spanish exists.It is very strange that most of Catalans, native Spanish speakers as they are, do not want their language to have the same status than Catalan. Do they want to be second class citizens? Ok, but if some others do not, let them to choose.Nationalists often ask freedom to commit seccession, but on the other hand they are not interested in asking parents which language they prefer as vehicular at schools.
Catalan is not the sole language of Catalonia, Catalan is one of the languages of Catalonia along with Spanish. So both languages must be equal in all aspects.
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