Prevent by all means that classes are taught in Spanish in the classrooms of Catalonia. That is the transcendental challenge that the pro-independence parties and associations are now setting themselves. They seek subterfuge and legal pirouettes so as not to imminently apply the TSJC ruling that requires 25% of the classes to be given in Spanish. Why? What is the OBJETIVE? Winning? Perhaps they consider that it is not good to have a better knowledge of a language that is spoken by more than half a billion people in the world. Or the same is convinced that knowledge takes place, that the less knowledge you have, the more you progress in life. Who knows, there are theories for everything, even as far-fetched as this one.
Languages, it must be said loudly, are the vehicle that connects cultures, peoples, people, businesses. This allows a citizen from Sant Cugat del Vallès to relate to one from Shanghai, Montevideo or Milwaukee. What is this to be locked up? I assure you that I understand less and less that students, who should be the most open in every way, fall into a harmful and harmful politicking for their interests. 25% of education in Spanish. That is the battle now. What's the problem? The 25th in Spanish, the same in English and the same in a language of your choice. That would be the challenge, what is advisable in a modern and ambitious society, with a desire to progress, to compete, to be at the forefront of Europe. Learn more and better, not less and worse. Castilian Spanish, and it is good to point out now that it is cornered, is an important part of the culture of Catalonia. Let's see: Juan Marsé, Eduardo Mendoza, Vázquez Montalbán, Terenci Moix, Maruja Torres… They and many more have narrated the Catalan reality better than anyone else. But they have done it in Spanish.
Are they less Catalan for it? Who distributes the Catalan identity cards here? The usual ones? Let's put an end to this seedy provincialism that leads only to isolation and ignorance, which is surely what some are looking for for their own benefit. The confrontation is the only thing that works for them to keep getting four votes. Let's not fall into the trap. Social networks open us up to the world, and languages help us open up. You choose.
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