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Word of the Month: Intifada
The word of the month is: Intifada, n.; uprising, revolt, specifically the Palestinian uprisings in the West Bank and Gaza from 1987-93 and again from 2001-present; from the Arabic meaning jumping up, to be shaken, to shake off (1985).
The original intifada began on 9 December 1987 and lasted until late 1993. The proximate cause of the revolt was an 8 December incident where an Israeli Army truck ran into a group of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, killing four and injuring seven. Many Palestinians believed that it was deliberate, done in retaliation for the death of a Jewish salesman in Gaza two days earlier. The revolt ended with the signing of the Oslo accords and the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in 1993.
Major League Team Names
One area that the Wordorigins.org web site gives short shrift is onomastics, or the study of names and proper nouns. Given this month's baseball theme, an exploration of major league team names is in order. The dates listed are the dates the team name came into use, not the date the modern organization was founded.
Oakland Athletics (1860). This is probably the oldest baseball team name still in use, dating to 1860 when an amateur Philadelphia team dubbed themselves the Athletics. The modern American League team played in Philadelphia (1901-54) and Kansas City (1954-67) before landing in Oakland in 1968. Since arriving in Oakland, the name has alternated back and forth between Athletics and A's, depending on the whim of the moment.
Prescriptivist's Corner: Foreign Plurals
English borrows words like no other language. All languages borrow words from others, but English is as close to a polyglot as any major language can be. While this borrowing adds to the richness and power of the language, it does present certain grammatical problems.
One of these problems is how to form plurals of borrowed words. Do you use the standard English plural of -s/-es? Or do you use the foreign plural?
Words On The Web: www.sportscliche.com
Crash Davis: "It's time to work on your interviews."
Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh: "My interviews? What do I gotta do?"
Davis: "You're gonna have to learn your clichés. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: 'We gotta play it one day at a time.'"
LaLoosh: "Got to play… it's pretty boring."
Davis: "'Course it's boring, that's the point. Write it down."
—Bull Durham, 1988
The sports cliché has been around as long as there have been sportswriters. Ever since Wee Willie Keeler told a reporter that the secret to batting success was to hit 'em where they ain't, the cliché has been unbreakably linked to sports. From poetry in motion to he tattooed that one, sports clichés abound in American discourse.
www.sportscliche.com records and archives these clichés. The site defines a sports cliché as "an expression that has been used in and around sports with sufficient frequency over a protracted period such that it is 'tired' at best and meaningless at worst." The site also concludes "that nothing of any importance has ever been said in a halftime analysis."
The site is basically a series of lists, categorized by sport (baseball, football), location (winner's locker room, loser's locker room), and special categories (clichés devoted to John Elway). There's even a page on the music that is played too often in stadiums and ballparks. Features include search function and quiz.
The site is pretty Spartan though. It could use some sprucing up, like making the quiz interactive. But it serves the basic function of identifying these phrases for what they are.
Book Review: Dickson's New Baseball Dictionary
Few pastimes have contributed as much to the language as baseball. All sports have their own jargon and occasionally some of those jargon words make their way into general speech. But baseball is different in the sheer number or words and phrases that it has contributed to the language.
Dickson's revised version of his baseball dictionary contains over 7,000 entries, from A (as in Class A ball) to zurdo (Spanish for lefty). Most jargon dictionaries simply record the definitions of terms. Dickson goes well beyond this. He identifies archaic and obsolete terms, cross-references related terms, includes etymologies, and for many terms gives the first known use, notes on usage, and quotations of actual use.
Copyright 1997-2015, by David Wilton


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84 inch double sink vanity...3 or 4 light over each sink?
nikkidanMarch 29, 2012
Our master bath and the kids bathroom have 84 inch vanities. Each vanity has a 30 inch sink cab on each end, and 24 inch drawer stack in the middle.
Will a 3-light vanity light over each sink be sufficient? Or will I need a 4-light?
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We have that also...30" cabs on each end. I don't know what kind of mirrors you're doing over each sink. But if they're coming in from the wall a little...say two inches on each side, that's bringing your mirror width to 26". You may also want the lights to come in a little also.
Personally, I'm doing double sconces over our sinks. I like the look this gives better and there's plenty of light with the other lighting in our bathroom.
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SALADO, Texas (AP) — Emergency crews are responding to a reported bridge collapse along an interstate in Central Texas.
If you just have to have it now, as in one hour, you can, at least in the Dallas area, as Amazon.com Inc. announced Thursday it will offer Prime Now.
The future of a redevelopment plan for the 50-year-old Westchester Plaza on Fort Worth's Near Southside is unclear.
Texas unemployment fell to 4.3 percent during February for the sixth straight month of declines, the Texas Workforce Commission reported Friday.
Monty Bennett's name will not appear on the ballot for the Tarrant Regional Water District board of directors yet he remains a powerful backstage player whose influence could shape the direction of the district's business for years to come.
The Associated Press
Applications for U.S. unemployment benefits rose last week, but they remain close to pre-recession averages.
The Labor Department said Thursday that applications for jobless aid increased 23,000 to a seasonally adjusted 302,000. The less volatile four-week moving average dipped to 297,250, the lowest reading since April 2006.
Here are the states with the biggest decreases in applications. No state reported increases in jobless claims of more than 1,000. The unadjusted data is for the week that ended July 19, one week behind the national figures:
States with the biggest decreases:
New York: Down 18,663, due to fewer layoffs in education, transportation and warehousing, and health care and social assistance
Pennsylvania: Down 7,233, due to fewer layoffs in administration, food service, transportation and construction
California: Down 6,222, no reason given
Georgia: Down 4,661, due to fewer layoffs in manufacturing, administration, construction, hotels and food service, and wholesale trade
Indiana: Down 4,283, no reason given
Wisconsin: Down 3,719, no reason given
Tennessee: Down 3,203, no reason given
Texas: Down 2,964, no reason given
Alabama: Down 2,827, due to fewer layoffs in administration, waste management, hotels and food service, manufacturing and construction
Arizona: Down 2,273, no reason given
Virginia: Down 2,170, due to fewer layoffs in manufacturing
Massachusetts: Down 2,021, due to fewer layoffs in construction, transportation and warehousing, health care and social assistance, and hotels and food service
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Des Moines Springfest announces judge
Des Moines Springfest announces judge
The Des Moines Springfest Horse Show, scheduled for April 24 – 27, 2014 is pleased to announce its selection of Kristen Cater, Dunbarton, New Hampshire as our 2014 horse show judge. She will judge a full schedule of events including UPHA Classics and Challenge Cup classes, Saddle & Bridle qualifiers, Open classes and Academy sessions. New this year will be a Road Horse to Bike qualifier and Championship, UPHA Adult Challenge Cup and additional walk/trot classes. The show will be held in the beautiful, state of the art, Jacobson Arena at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. We are additionally pleased to announce that the footing mix has been re-formulated in the show arena as well as the adjacent warm-up.
Springfest is famous for its outstanding line up of hospitality events including morning pastries and coffee, lunches and evening events. A special Junior Exhibitor breakfast and activities are planned for Saturday morning, April 26. Join in as we play "Pony Pitch" to raise money for Blank Children's Hospital. Winning pitch shares the jackpot with Blank! Returning this year is our Trainer's Incentive; each trainer's name is entered in a drawing for a $100 cash prize each session of the horse show! Don't forget your stable dogs and family pets for our pet-in-costume class with prizes for all participants.
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LOOKING for: Breakfast Sausage Recipe
A friend has asked me if my cooking club has any recipes for breakfast sausage, as he is a sausage fanatic and would like to make his own. Would you have a recipe?
Hey Woodie,
I have quite a collection of sausage recipes that I've saved from here - I've been meaning to make my own, but never seem to get around to it :) I hope that LindaC doesn't mind if I post her recipe....I'm keeping it out to try soon!
* Posted by: Lindac (My Page) on Sat, Mar 22, 03 at 19:17
Back when we would get a whole hog a year, I always made my own sausage. I had the shoulder ground for sausage....and packaged in 1 1/2 pound packages. Then I would put in a rounded teaspoon of salt, a generous shake of garlic powder, 3 or 4 crushed dried sage leaves ( if it was summer and the sage was fresh, I just chopped it really fine) about a teaspoon of thyme leaves, a rounded tablespoon of brown sugar and ground black pepper to taste. Mix it well...fry up a bit to check for seasonings, make into patties and refrigerate until morning.
I do Woodie and I love it. It's Alton Brown's recipe that I altered a little. I keep it made into patties and frozen. It's very, very good:
Breakfast Sausage
2 pounds pork butt, diced into small pieces
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
2 teaspoons finely chopped sage leaves
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1/2 teaspoon chopped rosemary
1 tablespoon light brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
Combine diced pork (along with fat) with remaining ingredients and chill for 1 hour. Run all through a meat grinder; form into patties and pan fry over medium-low heat until cooked through. Use within 1 week or freeze for up to 3 months. *Inspired by recipe from Alton Brown.
Thanks a million, these recipes look so tasty I might even beat my friend to the punch and make my own sausage too.
Tab and Ken are constantly on a quest to find the best breakfast sausage! When they traveled together for work before they retired, they had sausage every morning in every hotel wherever they were! Even when we were recently on our boating vacation, Tab had sausage in the 3 different breakfast spots where we ate!
1 pound ground pork
1 tsp. ground cumin
1/ 2 tsp. dried leaf thyme
1/ 4 tsp. dried leaf sage
1 tsp. salt
1/ 2 tsp. ground black pepper
Combine all ingredients in medium bowl; mix well. Cover and refrigerate overnight for flavors to blend. Shape into 6 patties. Cook in lightly greased skillet over medium heat about 15 minutes or until browned on both sides and centers are no longer pink, turning occasionally. After cooking, may be frozen for later use.
Here's Dad's:
Diane's Home Cookin 4.8 Chapter: Heirlooms
Dad's Breakfast Sausage
2 # fresh coarse grd pork ( use a good shoulder butt cut , not too lean )
2- 3 Teaspoons rubbed sage
Pinch -1/4 tsp. of dried thyme, marjoram & rosemary
1 Teaspoon dried parsley
1 Teaspoon each salt & fresh grd
Dad Lynch's Sausage Recipes:
5 ½ # coarse ground pork shoulder butt( get smallest one possible, meat will
be more tender)
2 toes garlic , minced fine
1-1/4 Tablespoons Canning salt
½ tbsp. Marjoram
½ tbsp. Coarse grd black pepper
3/4 Teaspoon Fine black pepper
½ c. Warm water
Mix well, let sit in refrig a few hrs or overnight-mix again & stuff into
. Italian sausage: 5 # coarse grd pork shoulder butt 1 tsp. Pepper 2 tbsp.
Canning salt 1 rounded tbsp. Fennel seed ½ tsp. Crushed red pepper ½ c.
grated parm or Romano cheese 1-2 toes garlic, minced 1 c warm water or red
Combine & let sit in cooler 5-6 hrs-mix again -form into patties or stuff
into casings.
Top Secret Recipes
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Jimmy Dean
Breakfast Sausage
Before he became America's sausage king, Jimmy Dean was known for crooning the country hit "Big Bad John." ......
This clone recipe recreates three varieties of the famous roll sausage that you form into patties and cook in a skillet. Use ground pork found at the supermarket (make it lean pork, if you like), or grind some up yourself if you have a meat grinder laying around for some good old-fashioned fun.
16 ounces ground pork
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon dried parsley
1/4 teaspoon rubbed sage
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1/4 teaspoon coriander
1/4 teaspoon MSG (such as Accent flavor enhancer)
16 ounces ground pork
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/4 teaspoon rubbed sage
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1/4 teaspoon coriander
1/4 teaspoon MSG (such as Accent)
16 ounces ground pork
3 tablespoons maple flavored syrup
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon MSG (such as Accent)
1/4 teaspoon coriander Combine all ingredients for the flavor of your choice in a medium bowl. Form the sausage into patties and cook in a skillet over medium heat until brown. Makes 1 pound of sausage.
I've tried Alton Brown's recipe and it is very good. I've been making my own sausage for almost a year now. It's very easy with the grinder attachment for my Kitchen Aid mixer. I usually make about 4 lbs. at a time and form the sausage meat into patties before freezing them on sheet pans, then I double bag them in freezer zip bags and keep them frozen.
If I remember correctly, you could also use ground turkey in place of ground pork. Just don't get the all-white-meat really lean stuff or your sausage might turn out dry. Ground chicken is okay, but the flavour is a little more muddy and the colour isn't as nice IMO.
All of your recipes sound good. Just remember FRESHNESS counts the most. Don't expect that rubbed sage, or pepper flakes or thyme or pepper to have the same kick and taste as those jars that have been setting in you cabinets for 15 years. BUY fresh!!and use it, you will be rewarded for your efforts in a richer fuller flavor.
Also, check your fat content, you need 15 to 20 percent fat on your pork butts. Buy in bulk if you can, most of the big wholesalers have butts for 1.20 a pound and if you aren't turning them in sausage or brats, there is nothing like a pork butt that has been smoked for 12 hours in a good smoker.
Experiment, I use dry ice chuncks when I grind to keep the meat cool and my machine but I grind 50-60 lbs at a time.
My wife had a bad medical condition, and for the last year we haven't bought anything processed out side of the home, and I am happy to say we nearly got her off her MED's. and she's much better..and I have dropped 12 inches of my waist, go figure and I only cook with olive oil and butter .
So make you own, you will be healther for it.
Here's one I came across this morning, and saving it. Sounds different, and might be tasty, at that.
Breakfast Sausage Apple Pie
1 (1 lb.) pkg. pork sausage links
1 (11 oz.) pkg. pie crust mix
1 (1 lb., 4 oz.) apple pie filling
1 c. shredded mild Cheddar cheese
1/2 c. brown sugar, packed
Cook links until browned. Drain. Prepare half pie crust mix. Roll out to 12 inch circle and fit in 9 inch pan. Prick shell and bake 10 minutes. Spoon pie filling into partially baked shell. Arrange sausage in a spoke fashion on pie filling. Sprinkle with cheese. Combine rest of pie crust mix and brown sugar and sprinkle over top of pie. Return to oven. Bake, additional 25 minutes or until crust is golden. Serve warm..
Hi! I have just made and tried the Jimmy Dean breakfast sausage recipe posted by Earl. I tried the Sage version. Excellent!!!!! This is a wonderful recipe and perfect for someone who is in fact looking for a Jimmy Dean breakfast sausage clone. Thanks Earl!!!


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The Wall (edition 1990)
by Eve Bunting, Ronald Himler (Illustrator)
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The Wall by Eve Bunting
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This story is about a father and son that go and visit thier grandfathers name on the wall. When they find his name on the wall, the father traces over it so that they can keep it forever. While the father is mourning over the loss, the son is taking the time to imagine what it would be like to have a grandfather. He doesn't quite understand that meaning of the wall, but he likes to look around and try to interpret what is happening. Genre: realistic fiction
This book's genre is realistic fiction. This story follows the encounter that a small boy has at a war memorial wall with his father. His grandfather's name is on the wall, and the boy learns about war, pain, and loss as he watches his father.
I liked this book a lot for many reasons. First, the story is simple and to the point so that children can learn about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and why the soldiers names are on it. Because it is from the point of view of a young child, he explains that, "On it are the names of those killed in a war, long ago." Secondly, there is a great use of similes. When describing the wall, the boy states that, "[it] is black and shiny as a mirror." In addition, the writing is very organized and thoughtful. The reader is able to follow along to the young boy's thoughts and observations of the type of people that come to visit the wall. He also has a realization of what life could be like with his Grandpa and starts to appreciate him more. Finally, I really enjoy the illustrations in the story. The pictures are very grey and depict the serious and sad mood throughout the story. In addition, there is a lot of good detail in the pictures and you are able to really capture the wall and the emotion of the characters as you read.
I had mixed feelings about The Wall after reading it. This book was about a father and son looking for his grandpa's name on a war memorial. I liked the topic of this story because many children's books avoid the subjects of death and war even though things like that can be prevalent in a child's life. The Wall pushes children to think about topics that are not normally brought up in school or at home. What I really did not like was that even though the illustrations showed that the boy and his father were at the Vietnam War Memorial, it was not specifically mentioned in the book. The memorial was referred to as "the wall" throughout the book, except for one of the final pages were a schoolgirl on a field trip asked her teacher if the wall was the memorial with the name of all the dead soldiers. Children will most likely lack the background knowledge to be able to recognize what the illustrations showed and will not realize that it is a real memorial that they can visit. There is a page after the story that gives a brief description of the Vietnam War Memorial, but it seems to be an afterthought that most children will not read.
A boy and his dad go to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. They find the name of the boy's grandfather. As they look for the grandfather's name, they see others who are visiting the memorial. They see flowers, letters, flags and more left at the wall. When they find the name, they do a rubbing and leave a school photograph of the boy on the ground below his grandfather's name.
I think that this story is very nice. It shows such a loving strong relationship between father and son. It felt like such an intimate scene when the boy helped his father make a rubbing of the name. It's both touching and saddening that the pair have to bond over a dead loved one. The simple illustrations do not overwhelm the story and help make it come to life.
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Book Review
8:00 am
Mon August 11, 2014
On a Darkling Plain
"On a Darkling Plain: Stories of the Great Depression"
Author: Betty Jean Tucker
Publisher: Livingston Press
Pages: 162
Price: $17.95 (Paper)
Everybody loves a book that comes with a back story. In his very fine Introduction to "On a Darkling Plain," Alabama literary critic Norman McMillan tells us of a 19-year-old student at Alabama College who, in 1951, published in "The Montevallo Review" her first story, "My Sister Callie."
That piece was chosen by anthologist Martha Foley as one of the Top One Hundred Distinguished Short Stories of the year.
Betty Jean Tucker would go on to work as a journalist, earn a Ph.D. at the University of Alabama, and chair the Division of Languages and Literature at the University of West Alabama for 20 years.
From 1951 to the present Tucker wrote, it seems, only nine more stories. Five were published and of those four won some sort of literary prize. This volume, published as Tucker is 83, was runner-up for the Tartt First Fiction Award. Born in 1931, Tucker was a child IN the Depression and a child OF the Depression. Those who lived in the 30s or were raised by parents who did are shaped by it forever. There is here no other subject.
These are stories of desperate poverty. The characters are not just making do with last year's coat; they are constantly hungry, even starving. Sometimes, people who have only a little are willing to share—a romantic mythology we like to impose on hard times. Usually, a Darwinian ferocity takes over and the weak fall. In "When Poets Lie," suffering results from lack of medical care. Often, the characters' hunger and despair leave deep psychological scars.
In several stories Tucker shows, without restraint, the violence generated by that desperation. In "Hungers," the cruel and greedy storekeeper Mrs. Landis is shot. "Her head was no head at all. There was just a big bloody hunk of bone and hair and a few of the little rat-like teeth."
McMillan notes these are "literary" stories, and they are: perhaps TOO literary. Tucker has not the startling insights or gifted singular voice of a Mary Ward Brown—with whom there can be comparisons in setting and subject matter—but rather writes stories informed by a deep reading of twentieth-century fiction. The result is solidly made, realistic stories, often with O. Henry-like surprises and reversals but sometimes conventional and derivative, with recognizable echoes.
In "Hungers," for example, the story opens with a the word "hunger" or "hungry" repeated five times on the first page just as Hemingway, for effect, repeated "burned" or "burned over" on the first page of "Big Two-Hearted River."
In "The Legacy," we are let into the stream of consciousness, the workings of the protagonist's mind, as we are into the mind of Steven Dedalus in Joyce's "Portrait." But here Tucker lets us see the mind of Jeremy, traumatized by his experiences of WWI, as thoughts of patriotic propaganda, recent horrors and the lines of the "Star-Spangled Banner" all rush through.
The title of "The Poet's Deer" comes from Robert Coffin's poem "Crystal Moment," in which savage dogs chase the doe relentlessly, but owes something perhaps to Erskine Caldwell also in its depiction of rural sexual depravity, as Uncle George pushes his niece Sissy into sexual liaisons to get her out of the house, for someone else to feed.
There is little one would call humor in these stories but in "Hungers" there is an intriguing oddness. The narrator says of the boy protagonist: "being hungry was with him all the time." Then one day he is passing a house where a man has just died. He is sent to fetch the doctor and when they get back, folks are already gathering, "the women bringing in baskets of fried chicken and potato salad and lard cans of iced tea and milk….Nobody noticed him and he ate and ate….Since then he didn't miss a funeral."
A peculiar and ironic story, one that doesn't fit easily with the others is "The Renaissance Man." Junior Scroggins, who is a rare, privileged person in his late twenties, decides he might be the savior of Screamersville, Alabama, but of course he is a fraud. After rejecting the roles of genius artist and genius writer, he decides on physician. After only a semester or two at the University of Alabama, Junior commences his practice; he "would be a breast examiner specialist." He moves around town giving women free breast exams, searching for lumps. A furious husband ends this charade, so Junior switches to Baptist preacher, but is so disillusioned by all the bad behavior around him he retreats to reality and decides chasing girls is his calling.
Tucker's first published story, "Sister Callie," ends on a relatively positive note. Callie as a girl is a misfit: orphaned, large, friendless, and unattractive with a "kinda yellow" face. But Callie dreams of becoming a nurse and, against the odds, succeeds. The narrator closes the story, and this volume, by saying "… the Depression was over."
This review was originally broadcast on Alabama Public Radio. Don Noble is host of the Alabama Public Television literary interview show "Bookmark" and the editor of "A State of Laughter: Comic Fiction from Alabama."


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More on the Catalan National Transition here:
I'm a native from Barcelona, currently living in Paris and seen from outside all this independence delirium looks quite silly. It can be done, of course, and any catalan nationalist will yell that the benefits outweigh all costs but there are many issues that have to be considered in cold blood.
- GEOPOLITICAL: Catalonia doesn't have any ally but it has a lot of potential enemies. The biggest one is France, who is a strongly centralist country and doesn't have any interest on getting an independent Catalonia nearby Perpignan (who back in the Middle Ages was part of a catalonian kingdom). The germans will follow the french and since both the UK and Italy have separatist problems of their own it means, in practical terms, that you will have the 5 most important countries of the EU (including Spain) against an independent Catalonia. I'm not sure that the support from Latvia will make the difference...
-ECONOMICAL: an independent Catalonia will lose its actual privileged access to the spanish market. For example, the CAIXA, which is the most important catalan banking institution, has 25% of its deposits in Catalonia and 75% that come from other parts of Spain... Can you explain me how La Caixa will survive the backlash from angry spaniards ? You will have to count also on a migration of companies that want to keep their access to the spanish market. Among them you have the whole spanish publishing industry which is actually based in Barcelona. The most important spanish publisher, Planeta, has already said publicly that it will move out from Catalonia if it becomes independent.
- HISTORICAL: Catalans say that they will be wealthier once they're faraway from Spain. However, Portugal broke free from Spain in the XVII century and currently Portugal is poorer than Spain. The spanish colonies in South America got their independence in the XIX century and none of them is currently wealthier than Spain...
Catalans seem to think that all their problems will get magically solved once they break up from Spain. Some of them even think that Catalonia will eventually get out of the EU and become a kind of second Switzerland (they seem to forget that the swiss have Novartis, Nestle, UBS, Credit Suisse...).
Anyway, I remember more and more the old quote from Goebbels "If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself"... We all know what happened next.
More than 20% of the catalans go out to demand (whatever) and you start by insulting them? Being a catalan doesn't entitle you to go around trolling on a catalan topic.
You have your arguments to defend Catalonia is better off with Spain and others have their own arguments to defend Catalonia is better off on its own.
Fair enough, let's vote and do whatever the majority wants, but don't go about trying to diminish other people's opinions by calling them delusional, silly or even comparing them to nazism.
Pablo70, everything you say is the product of a very tight logic, indisputable factual evidence, historical certitude and your most enviable unbiased point of view. Congratulations! (Wink, wink.)
How you dare to quote Goebbels? Catalan people are pacific people and I remind you that Catalonia has suffered a lot under the Franco fascist dictatorship, an example the catalan language was forbidden and all the catalan institutions were abolished. Catalan nacionalists and left wing atalanists were murdered and even the President of the Catalan Government Mr Lluis Companys was executed.
Thee right of self-determination is backed by the United Nations and is totally legitimate. Let the people of Catalonia decide their future, let the people of Catalonia choose what they want democratically.
Dear Pablo,
I completely disagree from your statements. In my opinion this is very simple. We are in democracy, aren't we? then, let's vote and let the people decide what we want. Is it so difficult?
After becoming independent from Philip II of Spain, the Dutch started a golden a Golden Age. Your historical point of view is not the whole truth.
Catalans already decided in 1978 how they wished the votes to go when we overwhelmingly approved the current Constitution.
I wonder why no nationalist party has proposed an amendment of the Constitution in the national Parliament (where they are all represented) and play by the rules instead of starting all this noise.
Catalans already decided in 1978 how they wished the votes to go when we overwhelmingly approved the current Constitution.
I wonder why no nationalist party has proposed an amendment of the Constitution in the national Parliament (where they are all represented) and play by the rules instead of starting all this noise.
Catalans already decided in 1978 how they wished the votes to go when we overwhelmingly approved the current Constitution.
And then the government in Madrid started rolling back everything that was voted, either passing laws (or, more to the point, decrees) through their roller-steamer majority or through the "Tribunal Constitucional", which everybody knows to be in the hands of the ruling party as well.
The ruling party has made short work of a request, backed by a million and a half signatures, so this is not a practical proposition.
And why should any party (nationalist or not) waste their time in a proposition that everybody knows will be absolutely useless?.
The problem is that the rules are the PP rules, and for them to change it is the PP who will be able to do it. And they are crystal clear. They will NOT.
If I was Spanish I would feel ashamed for not letting the Catalans hold a consultation.
How can a non-binding consultation be made illegal? That's unethical.
Why do Spanish politicians want to retain 7.5m people against their will? What's the reasoning? Does it make Spain any happier? I find disgusting the idea of keeping someone inside a room unable to go away. With the Catalan issue I feel the same way.
What Spain is doing is just unethical. Catalans should have the right to choose their own destiny in the ballot box.
25% of the total taxes that the spanish government receives come from Catalonia. There you have your answer.
The sad truth is, if Catalonia segregates, Spain goes down. And that would not be good for Europe... So no matter how much we want independence, it will not happen, Europe will not allow it.
My dear friend, IMHO things are not that simple. Let's imagine people earning above 150k€/yr. and living in a democratic country decide they pay too many taxes and that they want independence. Would you agree they have a right to go? Would you agree on a poll to decide? Why should catalans decide their destiny and not affluent people? Voting and democracy look like great toys, but they are delicate like crystal and need to be treated with care.
You're example is good but innacurate. Imagine that the rich guy called Catalonia who makes 150 000€ a year has to pay 100 000€ in taxes which then go to a different guy who made 20 000€. That would mean that the rich guy (Catalonia) ends up with 50 000€ and the poorer guy with 120 000€. That's what's happening in Catalonia. Not only that, the motives backing independence range from cultural, to historic, to social and of course to economical ones too.
There is certainly a valid debate on what are the limits you can divide a country into more and more fragmented units. I would never see ethical for filthy rich Chelsea in London to become independent from the UK or Greenwhich in the USA on the grounds of an invented patriotic arousal. I don't have an answer for where do the exact limits lay, and I welcome the academics to discuss on that. But to be fair Catalonia is far from being the scenario you are depicting. When you have 7.5m citizens, a GDP per capita not so much higher than the rest of Spain, it's own language and culture, a decades-old claim for independence from a significant portion if it's own people...you definitely have a valid case for a referendum.
Dear PeibolSkan, do you consider normal that 50% of our taxes disappear into Spain EVERY YEAR? this equals approx to 8,5% of our total GDP! can you please tell me a region within EU that contributes that much to the central government and at the end of the day has worse services than the regions that receive the Money? unfair is simply too soft.
WE WANT TO VOTE! is it so difficult to understand? we are even just asking for a non-binding consultation!!!
Spain needs €4.000 a week from financial markets to go on. Two weeks with no dose and Spain blow up. Only reaching a settlement with an independent Catalonia we will share a proportional part of the debt, the only part recoverable!
So simple
We will choose our destiny. If the spanish government doesn't allow the consultation, after the next elections to the Catalan Parlament, the Catalan Parlament will probably issue a Declaration of Independence. And then, may God help us. But it's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Good explanation.
If new Catalan Republic is considered as segregated part which inherits the rights and obligations of the previous state (international law permits), it remain part of the EU and would take over their part of the Spanish debt. And this would solve part of the problem.
Dear friend, I am unable to answer you. I very much doubt your data, in fact I dont trust any quantitative data available regarding this conflict. You tell me about 50%, other people tell exactly the opposite. Two things I know for sure (1) there is no reliable data, and we should blame politicians on both sides for that(2) there is not a quantitative threshold from where independence becames a right. This is a conceptual discussion, my numbers were purely illustrative. The point I wanted to make is that Spain being a democracy, we all must play by the rules. I have nothing against voting but presenting the alternative: Let's vote to leave or we will leave anyway is hardly democratic. I know Spain is a mess of a country and I understand citizens wanting to leave. But I think Catalonia, particularly politicians, have contributed a lot, for good and bad, to what Spain is right now. So leaving does not look like an honest option.
Regarding social, cultural and other issues mentioned in other posts: take no offense, but I believe affluent people in Madrid and Barcelona have much more in common than many people living in Catalonia.
I already said in another post that I still have to see reliable quantitative data regarding the catalonia conflict. Besides, my numbers were purely illustrative, I dont think regions "losing" 50% of their taxes are entitled to independence and those with 49% are not. That is to completely miss the point.
And historic, social, cultural and other issues are simply not arguments to be discussed in a democratic country. If you insist, rich people are a class in themselves, with a lot in common (history, culture, ...) but I doubt anyone would agree for them to become independent.
There is only one real, valid and strong reason for independence. That is: becoming independent would clearly improve the "democratic status" of the segregated society, more freedom for its citizens, human rights will be more respected, etc.
This is exactly the kind of speech that makes me laugh and unable to take the Catalonia problem seriously, fortunately there are other people who can provide logic and understandable arguments.
Mr LiveFreeOrDie121, are you still living in the XIX century? Do you really think people demostrating in Catalonia are thinking about "Catalonia destiny" or that "dying on their feet rather than living on their knees" is their priority????
The one thing that the Catalan population can rely on is that they will be recognised by the UK if they vote for independence.
Unlike the totalitarian bully regime in Madrid, the UK has allowed and is allowing referendums to those that want to stay or leave.
Latvia has already opened the door to a recognition of an independent Catalonia !
Thank you
Yes, and very impressive too, which may be why the Spanish Foreign Minister has lost no time in summoning the Latvian ambassador into his august presence . . . for a haughty Castilian ticking off, presumably.
No... Spanish Foreign Minister wants invite the Latvian ambassador to get a relaxing cup of "café con leche".
No... Spanish Foreign Minister wants invite the Latvian ambassador to get a relaxing cup of "café con leche".
Wake up. Historically, the UK government has applied different standards to their home and international affairs.
How can a non-binding poll be unconstitutional? It is a matter of freedom of expression. This is where the problems begin. They continue with the Spanish Constitutional Court turning down articles of the Catalan regional constitution that are fine and accepted in other regions' constitutions. That is a clear sign of discrimination by a central government and its judicial system, one of the grounds to justify independence by the way.
Catalonia's public debt is about €50B, which is 25% of its GDP(€200B). The only problem with that debt is that it is Madrid and not the Catalan government the one that controls Catalonia's financial resources. If Catalonia did not have to give away about 9% of its GDP to the rest of Spain every year- let's say they only gave away 4.5%, that debt could be easily paid in just 10 years. No other country or region in Europe gives as much money as a percentage of its GDP to its poorer neighbours. This was the start of the problem, that was exacerbated during the crisis, when catalans saw how other parts of Spain had way better social services paid for in part by Catalan taxes. On top of it all, they are accused of lying and lack of solidarity, and attacked for wanting to defend its own language.
For more information about the economic merits of a Catalan state, I would recommend visiting a web site published by a bunch of Catalan economists, most of them professors at pretty prestigious universities, such as LSE, Harvard, Princeton and others:
I thought The Economist hired knowledgeable, graduate journalists, but it seems that some paste-and-copy trainee has looked up the first web at hand and written this article. Do you really believe the 1714 war was a victory of Spaniards over Catalans? It's just another artificially created myth these ethnocentrist nationalists want us to swallow. Just take up any serious book on the topic and you'll realise how many lies have been told about this episode of Spanish history. There were Catalans on both sides, as well as people from many other Spanish territories. But then again, historical truth is many times an obstacle for the big separatist dream.
Yes indeed. There were French and British that backed the Germans too in WWII, and it was still considered a war between countries. Most of the Catalans (which were primarily the noble and wealthy class that had the most to lose) that ended up on the Borbons' side did so at the last minute, and once they realized that the chances of victory were nill. The succession war was a conflict between two ways of conceiving Spain, one as a confederate state (as it had been till then) and the other as a centralist unified state. Most Catalans were on the side of the confederation, which would be something that most Catalans would happily welcome nowadays, by the way.
An official map of Spain after that war:http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/1850espanya.jpg
Nothing to lose? A lot to win !!!!
What country in the World would renounce to its independence? None! Because they would lose a lot of things that they don't want to lose.
That's why a majority of Catalan (57% YES vs 24% NO according to last polls of direct vote) want Catalonia independence, because they want to win the same these other independent countries in the World do not want to lose.
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Precisely. Most articles I have read note that support for independence is slightly over 50%. They typically do not provide information for the share of people against independence, somehow suggesting the remaining 50% is against it. But, that is not true, since some people do not have an opinion, and others would not vote. When we look at the whole picture at once, 57% vs 24% seems like a huge margin to me.
The Spanish habit of somehow counting abstention as a valid form of democratic expression amuses me. In the States, we pay no attention whatsoever to participation rates. Those that vote decide. Those that don't vote (and their opinions) don't count.
Spain doesn't count abstention as a valid form of democratic expression, not on an official ballot. Otherwise half of the Parliament would be empty.
This is something different. It's a Spanish political party arguing that all abstention "votes" on these polls would turn into votes for them on a ballot. Stupid anyway.
Madrid is not going to allow an inconstitutional poll take place in Catalunya (Spain territorial integrity is paramount for most Spaniards) and Catalan population seem to equate independence with the end of the economic crisis in their region so this option is gaining support. Breeding ground for disaster in 2014... And the real issues (unemployment, corruption, poverty...) will remain on hold. Despite the result, we all lose.
This is very interesting. Most of the comments have been written down by Catalan people and there is only one comment from a guy in Madrid. Well, I think this reflects that Catalans are moving very fast and actively towards independence, looking for international support. I live in Catalonia and I don't agree with independence. I think it will be a bad business for all of us. In the end, people in Catalonia are no longer arguing with facts and figures. Now it is only a matter of beliefs and hopes.
Hello Xavier, let's vote! I am in favour of independence and I'd like to see proposals from the Spanish government to convince me that I am wrong... but I only have seen so far taunts, insults and more recently these are gone... but the answer is now NO, NO, NO, NO..... Why not? Mr.Rajoy, give me reasons, not only NO, NO, NO!
The problem is Spain has become less than only beliefs and hope (and the facts and figures are even worse). Spain has become aimless, unable to give to these Catalans (and to any other spaniard) what they demand. So far these Catalans only see despair and danger if they go with Spain.
On the other hand they hear about a project, based on beliefs and hopes, yes, but they hear some facts and figures and not only from fools, also from economists, politicians, professors, scientists, ...
They listen to "the other side" arguments and they only hear FUD, violence, menaces or a simple silence.
In live, one does not need to know everything, one needs to know who to trust in each case, and in this case it becomes very clear. Whatever happens, an independent Catalonia in the long run will be better off without Spain.
Not a single mention to the fact (yes, fact) that Catalonia is currently the spanish region with the biggest debt and the second in the rank of the most indebted attending to its GDP. Nothing about the responsability of catalan politicians on ridiculous and extravagant expenditures, that they are probably the most corrupted politicians of Spain, that they bribed all the relevant local media with subsidies, institutional propaganda and contracts, nothing about the indoctrination impossed on schools and workplaces.
Discrepant voices towards independence in the catalan society are subject to an unbearable socially engineered political pressure being forced to shut up or leave. The claim that a future independence brought by their corrupted oligarchy will regenerate their country is a just a very sad joke.
And at the other side of the Ebro, for the very first time in years, the number of spaniards who support catalonian independence grows every day once they realize that the "catalan oasis" was a bluff.
We all know that sooner or later the catalan politicians will try to step back and we are eager to see what are they going to do then.
Catalonia has the least amount of public workers (per capita) in the whole of Spain.
I'd also like to say that there is a difference between contributing to poorer zones and the fiscal pillage which Catalonia is suffering because of Madrid. 1 out of every 2 euros catalans pay in taxes go to Madrid and don't come back. That's a plain fact and it's also plain wrong. The thing is that after this forced fiscal pillage the spending in Catalonia ends up being lower than other zones which actually receive money from the catalans.
Not only that, this movement is to RECOVER their independency (read "Decreto de Nueva Planta" and how before that the different kings would be of Castille, Valencia, Mallorca and counts in Catalonia [because unlike the other "absolutist" kingdoms Catalonia had a Parliament where it's maximum powers resided] instead of being king of Spain).
There are historic, cultural, economic and social reasons for the Catalans desire to regain their independence and sovereignity.
50 billion euros is not that much if we think that the Spain "stelas" almost 20 billion euros a year from Catalan. Debt would be payed in 3 years !!
In any case, related the Catalan GDP, Catlan debt is very small compared to a lot of developped countries. And I'm not only talking about Spain. Spain cannot give any lesson on that, of course.
Please just let us vote and become independent. We'll manage ourselves. Don't need to worry !
Thank you
50 billion euros is not that much if we think that the Spain "stelas" almost 20 billion euros a year from Catalan. Debt would be payed in 3 years !!
In any case, related the Catalan GDP, Catlan debt is very small compared to a lot of developped countries. And I'm not only talking about Spain. Spain cannot give any lesson on that, of course.
Please just let us vote and become independent. We'll manage ourselves. Don't need to worry !
Thank you
Talking about regional GDP in a country where regions should bear the burden of providing costly services such as health care or education, but they do not control tax collection, is simply non-sense. The current economical agreement is plainly unfair for Catalonia. That region is one of the richest ones in Spain, but it sinks below the average, after "solidarity" money has been collected by the central government. It is not surprising it has a significant debt, after so many years of being financially abused. In the event of becoming independent, Catalonia would be able to pay its debt rather easily with its own resources. Additionally, most of Catalonia's debt in external markets is owned by the Kingdom of Spain. So, in the event of a unilateral declaration of independence, Catalonia would be virtually debt-free.
'leh vamohs a pazar er sepiyo' (we are going to laminate it ) gives the measure of PSOE ideas about how to solve catalan issues .
Furthermore. Recently a minister of the PP Spanish government said that politicians should try not to search for confrontation. A reference to the PP gathering of signatures against catalan statute. No doubt.
Theoretically there should be shared solutions. Praxis teach that Catalan selfgovernment is for Spanish stablishment like shared pop corn in movies. Owe the bag and eat it up. Better two bags, then? Not easy.
Just a few comments:
The motto on the 1714 flag is: Live free or die (Viure lliures o morir)
The organisers of the human chain were very clear about the Catalan aim: Independence. They stated it clearly.
Catalans want to decide, not difficult to understand.
No a matter of getting more money from Madrid, no a matter or being more or less supportive with other regions in Spain.
Madrid authorities lied constantly, Mr Zapatero promised to support last Catalan Estatut (Catalan Constitution), and was denied by his party and Constitutional Court when it had been approved by the majority of the Catalan Parlament.
Not even with a economic freedom from the rest of Spain will change our aim about being independent from Spain and keep being Europeans.
We want to decide on a referendum and 2/3 of the Catalan Parlament belong to parties supporting it. We start a way with no return.
Easy, let us vote and we see results, we will accept any result.
Recommendation: news extracted from Madrid are not always neutral :)
Just a comment on a bad translation on the motto on th black flag. It was not win or die, it was 'Live free or die' (Vuire lliures o morir). The similar motto popped up later in time during the American Revolution.
And is now the state motto of New Hampshire (you'll see it on all their vehicle license plates unless the owner opts for a different one)
The Economist badly needs a correspondent living in Barcelona if he cannot get clear what the organizers' claim was: "Via Catalana per la independència" is quite unequivocal.
"Catalans and Spaniards badly need a new understanding." Yes, a good neighborhood. All other proposals come too late. We do not trust the deals that can make Madrid. We tried a possible understanding with the Statute of Autonomy of 2010 that was rejected and modified by the Constitutional Court
Catalan people just want to vote. It's true that only 52% of catalan population wants the independence (acording to the polls), but the same polls say that only a 25% don't want the independence.
Our goverment, from lasts elections in november 2012, is working to make a referendum, but spanish goverment don't want it at all. We just want democracy, and we will fight for it (we will fight in the catalan way, what means that it is going to be in a paceful way, claiming for democracy. We just want to vote, and we may need internacional help to guarantee the democracy in our nacion.
Democracy for catalonia is democracy for spain and for europe.
The organisers of the chain made the aim very clear: independence. Last polls say 52% of catalans want independence, so it's logical that more than 1 milion people formed the chain, driving far from their homes in some cases.
The project was an amazing success, much more than Spanish and Catalan politicians expected. So all of us who took part are happy. Sadly, it will change nothing because our politicians will not be up to the challenge, as always.
From my point of view, 52% is not enough to separate from Spain. Minimum would be 2/3 of the population, which means 66%. And 70% would be even better. Otherwise, it's too easy to change the status quo, and after a few years pro-Spain parties would organise another referendum to integrate Catalonia back to Spain. You want some stability after becoming independent.
Leaping from 52% to 70% is very difficult, although Spanish politicians are trying their best and helping Catalan independendence a lot :-) But there is a lot of people who want to continue being part of Spain, and many others who do not care. To get some these people to change their minds, you need to offer something more. Most people in Catalonia (and Spain) are fed up with politicians and corruption, so there are ways to get a lot of people to support independence. Here are some ideas:
- Completely new public system where all public servants are personally responsible of the money they manage.
So if you are in charge of a public department and your department looses money, you pay. Of course, salaries would need to be higher than now, and people would need tobe much (much much much) prepared than now. Of course a lot of the current useless low level political posts would disappear because nobody would want to take the risk.
- As we will not need to pay taxes to Spain, all personal and company taxes go down. Politicians would need to declare by how much, what would be the new tax system, and so on
- New political system to avoid the current "chanchullismo". Open lists would help
A lot of things can be done to improve the system and make independece attractive for many people who does not care.
Sadly, most of this changes affect politicians, politicians families and politician friends modus vivendi, and need to be done by politicians themselves. So what we will get is a slightly improved fiscal deal with Spain.
Spain's public debt has been announced today at 942,758 millon euros (well over one trillion dollars), there is 25% unemployment, and the governing party refusing to admit daming evidence of widespread corruption extending to and including Mariano "Bentley" Rajoy.
And yet Spanish news channels have been dominated by the 2020 Olympic bid, Gibraltar, and now Catalan independence.
The real issues needed to be resolved by this country are widespread corruption/traffic of influence, the near-impossibility of starting new small business, and the related issue of a massive body of public workers and red-tape strangling enterprise.
Catalan independence, whatever its merits, is simply not a priority - an entire generation of the young is being squandered, while an overlooked horde of hungry older folk rifle through the dumpsters outside my neighbourhood every single night.
Spain deserves better politicians, be they from Madrid or Catalunia - shame on them.
See above for someone advocating "dependence", that is not changing the status quo, with the excuse of the crisis. Spain is simply rotten and hijacked by an extracting minority. Regeneration will never come from Madrid, it's simply not in their ADN. Catalonia's independence is a chance for an old nation to start anew and free, and also for (the rest of) Spain to shackle their chains, if they really want to.
Catalunia is just as riddled with a massively over-sized public service, enchufe (jobs-for-the-boys), and influence-peddling by incompetent, self-serving politicians.
Anyone who thinks this would magically vanish after independence is deluding themselves.
Catalunia would defintely be better off after breaking away, just as Madrid would be if it decided to break away from the poorer bits of Spain.
But just as the north of Italy supports the south, the south of the UK supports the north, and west Germany supports the east, sometimes you have to put self-interest to one side, and deal with the wider, more important issues.
They are far more complex however, and so deafening, simplistic, single-issue noise will drown out anything of real importance.
That is plain wrong. Catalonia has the least amount of public workers (per capita) in the whole of Spain.
I'd also like to say that there is a difference between contributing to poorer zones and the fiscal pillage which Catalonia is suffering because of Madrid. 1 out of every 2 euros catalans pay in taxes go to Madrid and don't come back. That's a plain fact and it's also plain wrong. The thing is that after this forced fiscal pillage the spending in Catalonia ends up being lower than other zones which actually receive money from the catalans.
Not only that, this movement is to RECOVER their independency (read "Decreto de Nueva Planta" and how before that the different kings would be of Castille, Valencia, Mallorca and counts in Catalonia [because unlike the other "absolutist" kingdoms Catalonia had a Parliament where it's maximum powers resided] instead of being king of Spain).
There are historic, cultural, economic and social reasons for the Catalans desire to regain their independence and sovereignity.
Anyone who has spent any time, as I have, living and working in Catalunia, will tell you there are just as many public workers there, with just as much sense of entitlement and just the same "work ethic" as their counterparts in Madrid - you think there'd somehow be no increase in their numbersto run an independent Catalunia?
The Catalans have every right to be independent, but please don't pretend that it has nothing to do with self-interest. It's not about Madrid: Catalans want to stop subsidising the poorer parts of Spain - fair enough, but at least be honest about it.
Catalonia has the least amount of public workers in the whole of Spain. Here you have proof of what I said:
You know, it'd be good if you backed your arguments instead of bad-mouthing Catalans with made-up stuff.
Catalan independence is not a priority nor a solution, unless you are a Catalan. That, I understand and I'm sorry for the others, but Catalans do not trust the Spanish government regarding their solutions to get us out of this hole or to protect our culture.
It is not a matter of inability, its not just economics. It also has to do with keeping the language and laws, it's about being able to manage your own things with your own money. People do not want others to come to their homes and tell them they are not good Spanish (Wert's law) or they don't know what they need.
Many Catalans feel today's worse nationalists are the Spanish centralists, who are currently in the Government, and they want as far away from that (and as soon) as possible because in the current situation Catalans have the lower hand and they have more to loose than anyone else.
I am not bad-mouthing Catalans for a second: I spent a year there working with people from many different sectors, and they are intelligent, humorous and warm people.
However, one of the main bug-bears of the normal person there was the over-entitled and over-numerous body of public workers there, and the near-impossibility of starting a small company, given the time-wasting of the bureaucracy.
Assuming your map is accurate, it still shows WAY too many public workers all over Spain. Catalunia might be the lowest in 2007, but that is still an insane number, and with self-rule, there is no way there will be fewer.
And that still leaves you with corrupt, self-serving politicians: you really think there will be fewer of them with their noses in the trough after independence?
I stick to my point: the priorities for Spain are to:
- fix a broken political system
- fix traffic of influence
- fix bureaucracy
...that is the something which needs to happen before anything else, whether it be in Madrid or Catalunia, independent or not.
"Not on their ADN". Well, isn't that pure racism?
Nope, it's a cultural trait. Doesn't mean they are inferior at all. Every cultural group has different traits. Read Hofstede and his cultural dimensions for more information.
Very balanced article. Just one point: "the Socialists may return to power" is a sad joke. The furthest they are likely to get is to break the absolute majority of Spanish PM Rajoy's Popular Party.
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