That Sweden has been the first State to express reluctance to the inclusion of three Spanish languages in the EU has caused confusion in certain sectors of Catalonia: if we have always wanted to be Scandinavian!
Even if the final result were the same, it would have been better to have a grandson from Malta, the quintessence of Mediterranean Europe, the South, wow, of little social prestige among independence, a legitimate project with "moral" habits associated with dazzling Scandinavia: people of order, early risers, tax payers, devotees of silence and radically democratic (I write this last to look good, without knowing what it means exactly).
Apart from the fact that Sweden has five languages with official status - it is already known that human beings and peoples tend to envy - it is not that we have remained anchored in an idyllic, almost beatific vision of Sweden and the countries nordic? (Finland also joined the reluctance).
Sweden is, for example, the country where you are most likely to die from a gunshot in Europe, an uncivilized fact that purists attribute to immigration and drug mafias. And where one in five voters voted for the extreme right, which supports the current Government.
The Kingdom of Sweden is a great nation, exemplary in some things, not so much in others, only that one feels perplexed by the confusion it awakens in sectors of Catalonia, as illustrated by the anecdote that the Generalitat has in its organigram an entire Time Reform Office - it won't come from a snack bar! - created to advance our timetables, dine earlier, rest - in this life, after all - and distance ourselves from Mediterranean societies, with high pollution acoustics, and subordinate them to the Nordic model.
And I who thought I lived in the best and most civilized of the seas...
Some readers will say that the admiration of many Catalans for the North comes from Ibsen's theatre, the absence of papers on the floor, the figure of Olof Palme or the myth of sexual freedom. I wish it were so! I'm afraid that's not why, comrades, it's not that. That's why this feeling of sentimental disappointment.
