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| Ricardo Calleja Rovira |
Dear friends,
I live in Barcelona, as you all know. And some of you have contacted me concerned about the situation, and curious about the meaning of all this.
I think there are three major points that should be clarified:
1. Independentists are not a majority of catalans (last official survey showed 41% in favor, 49% against it), and there is no reason why their position should be considered "more Catalan", or their actions as performed by "the Catalan people", etc... Catalonia -like any other large human group- is heterogeneous. It is nonetheless fun seeing Anglosaxon media adopting a roussonian view of the nation and its volontè générale, identifying Catalonia with some Catalans. And mainstream escandalized of post-truth at home, echoing overreactions sometimes based on fake-news.
I live in Barcelona, as you all know. And some of you have contacted me concerned about the situation, and curious about the meaning of all this.
I think there are three major points that should be clarified:
1. Independentists are not a majority of catalans (last official survey showed 41% in favor, 49% against it), and there is no reason why their position should be considered "more Catalan", or their actions as performed by "the Catalan people", etc... Catalonia -like any other large human group- is heterogeneous. It is nonetheless fun seeing Anglosaxon media adopting a roussonian view of the nation and its volontè générale, identifying Catalonia with some Catalans. And mainstream escandalized of post-truth at home, echoing overreactions sometimes based on fake-news.
