Neutral Evil
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- Feb 15, 2010
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The students of the Consorci per la normalitzo lingüística and I are all victims of an international desire to devalue Catalonia. Spain and many other nations inform the rest of the world that Spanish is the official language and the regional languages are insignificant. Each and every one of us fell for this institutionalized form of manipulation and moved to Spain without learning Catalan in advance. The other students and I spent at least a year here in Catalonia, learning the hard way that Catalan is one of the absolutely necessary prerequisites to get a job. We all had to sign up with the Concorci to learn the language and gain what we needed to be employed.
We should have learned Catalan before coming to Catalonia, but the high and mighty ones in power that are the government in Madrid and their associates in rest of the world set up a screen around the province, filtering out Catalan and sending out the message that Spanish was the acceptable language and that Catalan was only optional. This was a load of claptrap! The powers that be played on our ignorance and suckered us in, only to have their plan to suppress Catalonia regally backfire in their faces. Because Catalan is the preferred language, Spanish is the one Catalonia sees as optional and those who immigrate have to be punished by not being allowed to gain employment.
We should have learned Catalan before coming to Catalonia, but the high and mighty ones in power that are the government in Madrid and their associates in rest of the world set up a screen around the province, filtering out Catalan and sending out the message that Spanish was the acceptable language and that Catalan was only optional. This was a load of claptrap! The powers that be played on our ignorance and suckered us in, only to have their plan to suppress Catalonia regally backfire in their faces. Because Catalan is the preferred language, Spanish is the one Catalonia sees as optional and those who immigrate have to be punished by not being allowed to gain employment.