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Originally Posted by nik-
I'm kind of torn on this whole thing. I hate that independence movement, and I love Spain as a country.
On the other hand, clearly this is the wrong reaction. They should have just allowed the vote to happen and then ignored it, since it's illegal anyway. Independence support wasn't growing, but they've ensured another generation of it.
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Why do you hate the independence movement? I like Spain too, but its current borders were set by violent takeover by feudal governments, and somewhat recently. Since then, they "standardized" a Spanish language that really has no historical presence in many areas of Spain. Catalan is defined as a dialect of Spanish, but not related to Spanish in any way.