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Reliable data on native languages in Spain
In discussions about the political influence of separatism and language imposition in Spain, the question of reliable data and facts comes up again and again.
As the newest instrument chatgpt, a product of the so-called artificial intelligence, offers itself since the beginning of 2023. I tested it once with the question: „What percentage of Catalans have Spanish as their mother tongue?“
No slackening on the language imposition
Daily small war and big politics
You could almost think that there is no longer a language imposition in Spain because everything seems so calm. Unfortunately, the opposite is the case.
It's just not worth describing every single case every day when attention is distracted by big politics. But there too, something is now happening in the European Parliament which, despite its questionable democratic significance, is not entirely without importance.
What purpose does it serve?
Genderism, wokeism and language imposition
The year before last (2021), various newspapers ran the headline: Volkswagen Group (VW) forces employees to gender. (Underlining by me) With this, the company only followed the practice of Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony, which has practiced genderism since 2018. Lower Saxony and the federal government are the most important shareholders of VW due to the German VW law.
This practice of language imposition is now being considered and/or introduced by more and more (especially DAX [ German Stock exchange index] ) company boards. Despite the rejection and the resistance of the population. With the Wokeism (e.g. Mother and Father Replaced by Parent 1 and Parent 2 in US passports) a list of words has been added, which one may not use any longer.
What does this have to do with the language impositions of various Spanish regional governments?
Persistent and tiring
All quiet on the language front
„All quiet on the Western front“ is a book that was first adapted into a movie by Americans in 1930 and most recently for Netflix in 2022 in German. The content in brief: On the German Western Front in World War I, there are constant skirmishes and battles with no decisive gains in terrain. The main character, Paul Bäumer, witnesses the deaths of all his comrades, and he himself dies senselessly near the end of the war in 1918, the last of his unit to die. The army report of that day reports that there is nothing new on the Western front.
Of course, one cannot compare the language dispute in Spain with this war. Nevertheless, there are two points that are worth reflecting on.