do not know if with age I have become gullible, if I lost my usual scientific skepticism toward the art of politics, in the I've never believed that I have always despised, but the truth is I've been following and listening to speeches lately Albert Rivera, Ciutadans party candidate / Citizens changing with astonishing ease to English Catalan language, sometimes without you yourself even taste it, showing the existing bilingualism in the street and putting it against the attitudes, often closed and intolerant, the Catalan parliament. And in so doing, to hear what Albert Rivera has to say, I do not know if I'm, like Ulysses, bringing my ship to the disaster, disappointment has always been around the gift I made the policy, so just in case remain tied to the mast, listening to that voice and those siren voices calling me with a phrase that has always been on my own: "The rights are not the territories, but of citizens."
Another thing could be that this expression of humanist, I've always worn proudly on the chest (see previous post "Then and Now, my idea of \u200b\u200bnationalism"), does not mean the same to me that Mr. Rivera, reason, and considering a hypothetical encounter impossible to chat and drink coffee, "I continue listening and attending to his campaign, his interviews and speeches.
So far there are many points on which I agree, even personally, with this candidate. I also, for example, have discussed with many friends and family to defend Catalonia bigoted and stubborn attitudes, and since I came to live in Catalonia, Three years ago, I felt-as he himself said in an interview yesterday in The Journal - "like a fireman putting out fires caused by hard-liners here and there." Of course there are other things not agree with Ciutadans, for example that makes exaggerated defense of the English constitution as if it were immutable and not really improved, but again I think, as Albert Rivera, that the occupation of politicians should be to manage and tax equity of citizens, to guarantee their freedoms, not to create other nations within nations, and is much more logical and positive convergence states into a globalized world of free citizens (Spain to Europe and Europe to the world, preserving every people their historical and cultural identity, of course) that this trend of nationalist politicians to talk about historic rights and territorial boundaries to create and there are no differences between citizens and neighbors who listen to his speeches after separatists are mixed seamlessly into the melting pot of languages \u200b\u200band cultures that is our planet today.
Catalonia differences can have on the rest of Spain or the planet Earth are laudable and worthy of conservation, but also pale in comparison to fundamental human rights and individual liberty. So I am in favor of positive discrimination of Catalan to help you stay alive against the might of Castilian in the world and in Catalonia in particular, but never to the point of having to prohibit, limit or restrict the use of Castilian because, again, the languages \u200b\u200bhave no rights, it is citizens who have them-and that is what a politician or ruler, anywhere, has to guarantee. It rules over territories, there is no other way, but is run for citizens who come from here or there, that move looking for work, a couple or their own happiness and who want to do it all free, with or without flag with or without national pride.
live and work in Catalonia, and I do not believe for one moment, I want to stay and build my family here on the shores of the Mediterranean near Serrat blue sea, I want to immerse myself in every summer, but still keep the dust dry Castilian plateau and my name, and I hope my future children can grow up without idolizing another flag or any other color than the green of the pines and the yellow of the broom. Is it possible you have found a like-minded political, or does are just siren?.
leave here the link to a video of campaign Ciutadans:
And another of a TV3 entevista Albert Rivera, which unfortunately does not mean he does not know Catalan, but it's worth despite leading questions from the interviewer:
Interview with Albert
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