Galiza apartheid (III): Spanish supremacism
Galiza apartheid (III): Spanish supremacism
I watched a documentary on the history of racial segregationism on the USA a couple of days ago. There was a section dedicated to school desegregation (integration). Certain images from the sixties shocked my mind because of the clear parallelism (inverse parallelism) with the situation we are suffering in Galiza right now. Indeed, in Galiza, small groups of Spanish supremacists with broad support from the media and the Spanish Popular Party (PP), have initiated a campaign to prevent their kids from being contaminated with anything reminding of the Galician culture or language. They use beautiful words, such a freedom and bilingualism, but in fact what they really want is to erase our past and any memory from the culture of our forefathers. Ideally, they would like to prevent all Galician kids from being aware that we have a culture and a language of our own. They want them to ignore our roots and to speak Spanish with a “neutral” Castillian accent as if they had been born in Madrid or some other town of the Castillian desert. In particular, they would wish the new generations to be unaware of our colonial past and present.
They wanted a segregated system, forcing the parents to decide whether they want their kids to be Galician or Spanish. Black or white. However, such a system would be too expensive and therefore the Galician government has opted for a milder form of acculturation, but also in terms of a partial dichotomy. It is amazing how morons resemble to each other:
Hi. Galician-speaker since i was born. Aware of speaking what i speak and proud of it. 27.
I live in a city of 30.000 inhabitants and i only know SIX PEOPLE who speak my language. I’m tired and sick of fighting for my rights with no results at all. I feel LONELY AND LIKE A FOREIGNER in the place i was born. Why don’t we, Galician-speakers, start acting as one?
Look for more Galician speaking people, there are associations that are Galician oriented.
De acordo em (quase) tudo. Com que não? Apenas com a refererência ao “Castillian desert”.
Na elaboração do discurso auto-valorizador por parte do oprimido, sempre está ai a tentação essencialista, a que usando armas perversas tenta reverter a aldragem. Castela não tem que ser atacada, nem como território (que não é um deserto) nem como cidadania. Apenas Espanha. Não o precisamos,nem por ética nem por estrategia.
Moreover, I love some Castillian desserts.
Mas, você gosta dos “desertos castelhanos”, não deveria ver nada de desprezativo na expressão. Ela é apenas descritiva