Catalonia Separatism Revives a Long-Dormant Spanish Nationalism
"And that’s quite exceptional in a European context." But in a country
that has seen two new parties, Podemos and Ciudadanos, enter Parliament in two years, no one will rule out the emergence of a far-right party or of a brand of nationalism that is likely to make many Spaniards and their European Union neighbors uncomfortable.
"It’s both unfortunate and normal that the escalation of Catalan nationalism, particularly in recent days, will fuel a Spanish nationalism
that already existed, even if it seemed to many to have been kept underground." That latent nationalism has also begun to resurface outside Spain.
Carlotta Carro said that In America people are proud to be patriots, whereas in Spain if you say
that you’re proud of your country, they say you’re a fascist,
eme right that defends far-right nationalism," he said. that there is definitely more probability of a party appearing from the extr
Equally dangerous, in the eyes of many Spaniards, is Catalonia’s threat to tear apart a country
that is a composite of regional identities and languages — including Basque and Galician as well as Catalan — a reality the government and the country have never truly found a comfortable way to digest.