Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Do People in Barcelona Speak More Spanish or Catalan? | Easy Spanish 256" video.
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@raulelenes4194 Yes, in law, as we speak, Catalonia is part of Spain but in the souls of quite a few Catalonians I have met over the years their loyalty was clearly for Catalonian independence as they are a language & distinct culture in their own right. On this topic I totally understand why the Basques, as well, would be pushing for outright independence on a similar basis to the Catalonians. Me? I think all nationalism is just crazy talk, quite literally it doesn’t make sense to take any kind of pride in an accident of birth; to me it’s like being proud of the colour of my eyes or the fact I have a brother & sister; with these, as with being born somewhere I had absolutely no say in the matter so being ‘proud’ of being Spanish or Catalonian or Basque or anything like that is just meaningless & very very dangerous as witnessed in human history over the past 200, 000 years. Religion & nationalism have so so much blood on their hands that I thank God every day I’m agnostic & am very grateful that I feel absolutely no impulse to harm another human being on the basis of some nebulous, meaningless & actually irrational nationalism. Be proud of your achievements, if that’s your sort of thing, but invisible deities in the sky & accidents of birth? No thanks. No flag waving for me.
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