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je je je... I never quit it with you :) je je jejje

And you have convinced me that this grey area seems quite important to some people. I guess some people have felt hated along their lifes by other people. Maybe some of them were in the minority in the school...They had bullies...other may had problem with some organized structures or with some particualr persn...so yes... you are right....I agree with you...

Me personally have lived recently a campaing of catalanophobia by the spanish hard right-wing where some media described every single day Catalonia in racist terms and using derogatory language.. always within the lgality (well most of the time). No incitement to violence.. just incitement to confrontation...

So I have seen these things a little bit from the side of the minority....It is ugly....and this with a lot of catalan people having a lot of power...I just can't imagine what is living the ame thing but powerless...shhhh

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Mon Feb 6th, 2006 at 03:13:24 AM EST
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Thank you, I find that a huge compliment if I can convince people about something.

And I understand where you're coming from and how it motivates you to be such an active alternative voice in this debate. We need voices like yours, for self-moderation and insights.

I'm an optimist: in the end, I think Catalunya and Spain will end up making fun of each other in a friendly way and respect that. Like the Dutch and the Belgium people do, while they once were united in the Dutch Republic. The key problem in this debate is one of a minority put in an underdog position. Like Catalonia in Spain, currently. For the Muslim community in Europe that's the case also, and millitant Islam is actually aggrevating it by seeding mistrust among the majority.

by Nomad (Bjinse) on Mon Feb 6th, 2006 at 06:34:49 AM EST
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