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  1. In 2017 some leaders in Catalonia decided to allow people to vote for independence from Spain. The entire thing ended up in a lot of violence, particularly from the side of the Spanish police who was deployed to basically destroy this voting initiative. I was in Catalonia at that time. I remember it was a lot of violence of that sort.

    videos.trom.tf/w/rfdBrDfQ1MQdb…

    Of course people should be able to decide if they want to be independent, and not have their heads smashed by the police for trying to vote for independence, but all that considered, everyone is free to speak Catalan in Catalonia, express their cultural traditions, and so forth. The school is primarily in Catalan. Everything is in Catalan first or Catalan only. No Catalan is treated differently from a Spaniard.

    So why do they want independence now?

    Money? Politics? The hope that if Catalonia becomes a nation then their living standards will be higher and their culture will be more important? Their language has more chances of being preserved?

    A hope for a better life if they become independent maybe?

    It is hard to see how this can be the case because being an “independent” tribe is hardly doable today. Your stuff, imports and exports, media, tourism, the trade society itself, will push and pull on your language, society and culture and morph them in the process. Just like it does now. Look at the “island nation UK” who has 0 neighbors basically, is independent, is a bloody island. And yet many there complain about their culture loss, immigration, difficult living conditions, etc.. Being independent, your own tribe, is hardly a shield that can preserve your culture.

    But since this Catalonian region went through a lot, it also changed in the process. Is like someone kidnapped a kid from Japan at age 8, takes her to US where she grows up. Then at the age of 40 she is free from the kidnapper. But when she returns to Japan she realizes she is not simply the same 8 year old Japanese girl. And Japan is also a different place. She speaks English and was enculturated into the American tribe.

    Is she Japanese still? And what does that mean? Things have changed, and she needs to embrace her new identity.

    The Catalan language is quite similar to the Spanish one nowadays because they have merged in many ways. There are so many foreigners here too from the rest of Europe but also South America. Spanish is spoken by more people in Catalonia than Catalan. Catalonia is a different girl, and no one is saying she has to forget the past trauma, but she cannot come back to before the trauma. She needs to embrace her new identity.

    Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

    #catalonia #catala #catalans #spain #independence #tromarticles #trom

  2. Això és per a tots els catalanoparlants, valencianoparlants, balearparlants, etc.
    Que sapigueu que aquesta xarxa social existeix, ja està creada i és una passada.
    És per a tots aquells que els hi interessaria estar en una xarxa social només en català.

    Link:
    xiuxiuejar.com/inici

    | #Català #Catalunya #Catalans #CatalanoParlants #Valencià #Valencians #Balear #Balears #Alguer #Xiuxiuejar |

  3. “El que crec que s’ha aconseguit, i és un dels grans èxits de la lluita de l’exili, és que l’independentisme català hagi estat assumit com un grup objectivament identificable de persones a qui es priva de determinats drets, entre els quals hi ha drets absolutament democràtics com el de representació política, en algunes persones el de la llibertat, però, sobretot, a tots el dret de decidir.” – Gonzalo Boye.
    vilaweb.cat/noticies/entrevist

    Celebrem-ho.
    #Catalans #Independència

  4. En Vicent Partal, parlant com a home d’estat – de l’estat català. En Vicent és català com malauradament molts pocs altres ho són.

    vilaweb.cat/noticies/sobre-aqu
    #Catalunya #catalans

  5. A lawyer who was allegedly hacked with government-grade #spyware made by the infamous surveillance tech maker #NSO Group
    has filed a complaint in court against two of the company’s founders and one executive.

    It appears to be the first attempt to hold the people behind a spyware company accountable for hacking crimes,
    rather than just the company itself. 

    On Wednesday, the Barcelona-based human rights nonprofit #Iridia announced that it had filed a complaint in a Catalan court earlier this week
    accusing NSO’s founders Omri Lavie and Shalev Hulio, as well as Yuval Somekh, an executive of two affiliate companies, of hacking crimes. 

    Iridia represents lawyer Andreu Van den Eynde, an attorney and university professor who specializes in cybersecurity.

    According to a 2022 investigation by Citizen Lab,
    a nonprofit that has been investigating government spyware for more than a decade,
    Van den Eynde was among the victims of a wide-ranging hacking campaign against at least 65 #Catalans linked to the region’s attempts to become independent from Spain,
    which was carried out using NSO’s #Pegasus software.

    Amnesty International independently confirmed Citizen Lab’s findings. 

    techcrunch.com/2024/11/13/lawy

  6. Salut a tothom/totdon!
    Intentant esbrinar com funciona això del Mastodon i fugin de twitter camesajudeu-me!

    #catalans #catalansalmon #catalunya #catalunyaexterior

  7. l'accent✍️✨️
    [Solidaritat amb Palestina a la diada castellera de la ciutat de Barcelona #FreePalestine #catalans. ]

  8. 2-2 at the half. #Catalans have more than held their own, which they've needed to do because they are the foreigners playing in England in an English league against the English with an English officiating team. Less said about a few of those decisions, the better. Expecting the Dragons to win based on what I've seen, despite the obstacles they're facing.

    #SuperLeague #RugbyLeague

  9. In from an afternoon at the brewery - let's gloss over just how shit-faced my wife is right now - and in time for the #SuperLeague Grand Final on TV. We've stayed at a hotel where both #CatalansDragons and #WiganWarriors were staying before and, based somewhat on that, we'll be cheering on #Catalans tonight. Their players were fun, ordering weird omelettes and amusing the hotel staff. Wigan's manager was a complete prick. That makes a difference.

    #RugbyLeague

  10. #Motogp Great speech from the winner; assuring fans that Pecco is safe and wishing him a full and fast recover.
    #Catalans for sure deserved this win.

  11. @joan59b @KRLS

    Aquí mateix, a Califòrnia: Santa Barbara fou fundada per un català, Gaspar de Portolà, al servei del rei espanyol en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspar nascut a Os de Balaguer.

    El seu successor fou un altre català Pere Fages en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_ nascut a Guissona.

    El religiós més cabdal de la regió fou un altre català, Juníper Serra ca.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junípe i també un altre, Joan Crespí en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_C

    Tu ho sabies, això? Els #catalans no coneixem la nostra pròpria història.

  12. Catalans are a very good team. When you consider how many 50/50 calls go against them as the only non-English team in #SuperLeague (consciously or unconsciously, I couldn't possibly comment) it's impressive that they're top of the table. That forward pass, end of the first half was so marginal that you rarely if ever see it called anywhere else or on any other team. #RugbyLeague #Catalans #CatalansDragons

  13. #JxCat exposes the worst on #Catalans desire to regain their independence, the normality to make right wing parties relevant.
    #Scotland can not follow this path, independence from Oppression can not be replaced by nationalist fascism.

  14. CW: Warning violence as a mean.

    The warnings are on the wall!
    #Catalans , #Basques, there is no peaceful solution to your cause. #Freedom needs to be taken by any means, as it was always in the past. The #Castilian are making sure that the democratic electoral process only benefits them.

  15. En la #app #Mammoth per a #iOS no pots trobar fàcilment els servidors #catalans perquè, per alguna raó que desconec, no hi han inclòs la categoria regional que sí veiem a joinmastodon.org/servers

  16. Stupid sin-binning aside, great first half of #RugbyLeague between #Catalans and #StHelens (and trying not to get giddy with excitement or overcome with hope now that #Wakefield have actually scored as well) but it's half time so back to #TOTP where the music of 1984 beckons.

  17. CW: Cat pics

    My #catalans, Xavi and Iniesta, aka Wee monkey Cat and Mr Pie.
    #blackCat #caturday