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Reasons Catalonia Should Be on Your Radar

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As much sympathy that I have for Catalonians, this article is good old propaganda, full of myths, half-truths and blatant lies.

Do yourself a favor and read both Liz´s and Sergio´s articles to get a more balanced view of this - really complex - issue.

[1] https://www.opendemocracy.net/sergio-casesmeiro/deconstructi...

Your referenced article says "I won’t analyse economic data or history" and focuses just on his personal identity as a descendant of Galician father and Catalan mother. Well, that's convenient! Does he deliberately avoids questioning the economic policies that seem to be drawn based on ethnicity? That's like putting the head in the sand! Then on the identity part it is just natural for him to be not too into Catalan struggle, because he's as much Spanish as you can get - he wasn't born nor raised on Catalonia, and his Catalan mother, which by herself was not very attached to her identity by speaking Catalan only with her relatives (probably out of respect), spoke Spanish in her own family!

I'm not saying that the op's article is not biased, nor that there's nothing more about this issue than just "poor oppressed Catalans", but I don't find your referred article "more balanced" by any means. It just uses a different rhetoric.

I didn´t say that Sergio´s article was more balanced. I said that reading both articles will let you form a more balanced view of the whole issue.

Note that I am with Catalonians when they ask for more money from the central goverment; they deserve it. It is this independentism thing that I find artificial and terribly unfair with the rest of the country.

Smaller governments are more accountable. I see that as a good thing.

Maybe, but not the case for Catalonia[1]

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-14/ex-catalan-leader-p...

Ok, another corrupt politician.

I don't think this proves anything about smaller governments being more accountable though.

Sure it doesn´t. I wasn´t trying to prove anything, but to show that smaller governments are as corrupt as larger ones.

At least in Spain, all those smaller governments - Comunidades autonomonas - are severely corrupted (Valencia, Andalucia and Catalonia being the worst)

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