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=Why Catalonia Should Be Independent:=


 * Social Reasons:**

Several anti-Catalan campaigns in Spain have caused increasing antagonism between the two places. [|A survey was being taken in Spain asking if the citizens felt hatred toward the Catalans, fifty six percent of the people said yes.]These results were published in the newspaper "El Mundo" in 2009. For most normal countries this would have been forbidden and the newspaper would have been closed for causing hatred attitudes towards citizens. However, there was no warning or any court of justice by the Spanish against El Mundo. News media and false campaigns are the instigators toward Catalonia.

Spain has been attempting the division in the Catalan society of those who speak Catalan as their first language and those who speak Spanish. In Catalonia this division is highly unwanted and would have never taken place if it had not been for the Franco dictatorship. "Franco saw Spain as fundamentally catholic, conservative, sensualist and based on castilian primacy." (Mathew Landers 2010, 23) The Franco Dictatorship made the use of Catalan forbidden in public institutions and schools from [|1939 to 1975]. For Spain maintaining division is their way of preventing Catalonia from ever becoming independent. The Catalan autonomous government has created a united public school system that has Catalan as the first language but it also teaches Spanish. Repeated false attacks have been launched in Spain, they are attempting to push for segregation. They want seperate schools for non-Catalan speakers where Catalan would be taught as if it were a foreign language with less proficiency. There would be consequences if this method was fulfilled. Non-Valencian schools would not learn Catalan well, while the students at Valencian schools would learn both Catalan and Spanish. How does this make since?


 * Cultural Reasons:**

It has been 37 years since the death of Franco, and Spain has made it perfectly clear that they have no empathy for Catalonia. They do not care about defending the usage of Catalan language. But instead or promoting other languages they only promote themselves. [|Instituto Cervantes] is paid from the taxes of the citizens from Spain. This organization is dedicated to make propaganda about wide extension of Spanish throughout the world, and try to challenge English as the international language, ignoring Catalan all together. They should be tryng to protect linguistic diversity and prioritize each language through its natural territory. [|Spain distinguishes that the language of Catalan has no real territory where it is the first and most important language taught and spoken.] This will eventually cause the Catalan language to become extinct. Catalonian people have so passion and feeling for their language and their independence, they deserve to become well known throughout the world. These people get nothing but negative feedback, this is one of the reasons for their desire of cultural differences from Spain. "A Catalan is anyone who lives and works in Catalonia, and makes it their country." (Mathew Landers 2010, 23) Catalonia even has their own flag named [|La Senyera] which means "signal flag" in Catalan. The flag is based on the emblem of Counts of Barcelona and Coat of Arms of the Crown of aragon. It has been an official symbol since the Statute of Catalonia of 1932.



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 * Work Cited**
 * http://www.am.ub.es/~jmiralda/catind.html
 * http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:b72IdyvM86MJ:wordinfo.info/unit/3230/ip:23+how+long+was+catalan+language+banned&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
 * http://fis.ucalgary.ca/home/instituto-cervantes
 * http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Catalan/Catalan.html
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senyera
 * Landers, M. W. (2010). //Catalonia is a country: World Heritage and regional nationalism//.