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Exhaustion in the fight against language imposition?

May 31, 2025

Organised activities against the language imposition in Valencia have been decreasing for months. Hablamos Español has switched to supporting those affected individually in their plight against the continuing extant language impositions of Valencian administrations. The lack of organised activities by opponents of language impositions and unionists has also led to my posts on this blog being reduced.

The language imposition has not ended in Valencia or in other Spanish areas with a regional language. Citizens in such areas are being bullied on a daily basis. Pupils in Valencia are still forced to learn Valenciano against their will and that of their parents. What is the reason for the exhaustion in the fight against this paternalism? And what happens next?

AI is the solution! Why learn languages?

In recent years, the endeavour to learn English has grown in Spain. Isn't that more than enough, many parents ask themselves in view of modern, AI-generated translation programmes? Is it still worth fighting for the inclusion of another foreign language in the school curriculum instead of the regional minority languages such as Catalan, Valencian, Basque, etc. that have been imposed?

Anyone who grows up in Spanish- or English-speaking countries is actually used to being understood as a tourist in virtually every hotel when travelling. Now you can use your mobile phone to ask random passers-by in China for a recommendation for the nearest paella restaurant. Learning another language seems like wasted time, even if it is not really possible to have a more in-depth personal conversation via the mobile phone. Using a mobile phone during lovemaking is not really erotic.

What is it like in the business world? Will these programmes make foreign language skills superfluous? Every reasonably educated manager is aware that every smartphone is also a spyphone, i.e. an instrument of espionage. Anyone who exchanges company secrets over the phone can be sure that the competition is very interested in finding out what international negotiations with competitors are all about.

Who will succeed? The one who believes that corruption doesn't exist and that hackers won't be successful in cracking the conversations recorded thanks to handheld translation, or the manager who speaks a foreign language and can communicate directly? Who can also be culturally educated during the social part of such conversations instead of always shoving a mobile phone under the nose of his interlocutor?

I do not believe that such considerations are the cause of the current weakness in the fight against language constraints.

Valencian headlines: DANA

The DANA, which devastated large parts of the province of Valencia with floods on 29 October 2024, still dominates the headlines of Valencian newspapers. I have the impression that this is more about the government's failure to prevent the DANA and takle timely rescue measures than the failure of the Spanish and Valencian governments to now provide accelerated assistance to the victims. I have the suspicion that it is about the eternal, tiring Spanish left/right dispute.

Whether I am right or wrong in this opinion, the decreasing coverage of incidents involving language imposition will probably not be the cause of battle fatigue. I am aware that governments and their media like to conceal unpleasant topics or suppress them by hyping up other topics.

Urgent concerns and time efficiency

The masses of Spanish citizens are increasingly busy organising their day. Even after working overtime, it is important to pay particular attention to prices when shopping. The government and media have told citizens that inflation was only 2.2% in April 2025, but the goods in their shopping trolleys cost 20% more. A check on Internet¹ shows: ‘Rents rose by 11.5% compared to the previous year.

It gets worse, even those who only watch or listen to the official Spanish television channel, RTVE, learn that

* the EU wants to take on 160 billion euros in debt for 2025, of which 150 billion are for Ukraine, not a cent for Spain
* Spain imposes a tax of 15 euros per tonne of CO₂ for 2025 (although the completely misguided energy policy² was the decisive cause of the Apagon (Black Out) on the Iberian Peninsula in April)
* Prime Minister Sanchez is also in favour of increasing military spending to 2% of GDP (10.5 billion euros)
* Western economists tell him that people have to work more and retirement should come later.

Working more? Just managed the shopping, cooking, tidying up, looking after the children and then onto the sofa! No more energy!

Those who nevertheless pull themselves together and inform themselves learn that 30-40% of the food produced worldwide is lost or wasted³. They mockingly ask whether the additional work should be done in the production of even more food or its disposal.

In any case, the fight against language imposition is not the answer to this sham economic solution from foolish economists. Instead, the question remains: Why are things getting worse for us? Can the answer be found in Spain, or is it better to look internationally?

The decline of the West

The economic situation and technical development of a country are important indicators of a country's well-being.

With all due caution, one could say that the introduction of modern smartphones in 2007 signaled a watershed moment. The global economic dominance of the Silicon Valley companies seemed to become complete. The hegemony of the USA seemed to give birth to a unipolar world, but the Asian tech giants quickly caught up. The parallel development of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa; founded in 2006. BRICS+ now has 11 full members + 8 partner countries) is instead shaping a multipolar world. In fact, BRICS is projected to match the Western G7 in nominal GDP this year. Meanwhile, Chinese-developed AI has surpassed its American counterparts in three key areas: it is more affordable, more energy-efficient, and more effective.

During this time, poverty has risen in the West, especially in Europe. The 2008 financial crisis hit Spain particularly hard, not just Greece and Ireland. If there was a recovery, this was thoroughly cancelled out by the corona measures⁴ , which were also completely idiotic in economic terms. The official statistics from eurostat show that the risk of poverty had already risen to 22.6% in 2022.

This decline has not taken place worldwide. Apart from some - even serious - exceptions, poverty outside the West has fallen! Of course, poverty in the West is not comparable to poverty in the 3rd world. But it is worth taking a quick look.

Advancement in the ‘3rd world’!

The adjacent graphic generated by Chatgpt shows the successes in the fight against poverty in Asia, Africa and South America.

The question the media should be asking every day is: Why is this the case? Why is there a decline in our country and a rise in the 3rd world?⁵

You could argue that there are still many problems in the 3rd world, too and that not all countries have managed to rise. That's right, almost like in Europe, except that here there is only low, zero or negative growth, but increasing material and social impoverishment and deindustrialisation due to politically driven, excessive energy prices.

What errors are we making?

In addition to the economic decline in the West, this decline can also be seen culturally, technically and politically. Examples:

Culture

Genderism: Our governments and media no longer recognise the difference between men and women and are inventing 60 genders by funding 212 professorships at German universities alone. The number for Spain is not known; the leading institution for gender research in Spain is the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, whose leadership can be said to have a certain tendency towards separatism.
Political correctness: children in Germany should no longer wear cowboy costumes at carnival.
Soft version of the language imposition: Words like 'Negerguss' and 'Zigeunerschnitzel' are now ostracised, as they contain the terms 'Neger/Negro' and 'Zigeuner/Gipsy'.

Migration

Germany: The US government's mostly uncritical support for wars of aggression in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, which violate international law, is not only causing the tireless warmongers in the EU to crawl out of their holes with demands for 5% of GDP for military spending, but the wave of refugees from these countries as a result of war has brought us precisely the proportion of people from other cultures whose difficulties in adapting often overtax our tolerance threshold, and in the most extreme cases, at least in Germany, lead to almost daily knife murders.

The money that these migrants - who are not always poor - cost us is not only the result of these wars, but also the consequence of our ‘asymmetrical’ trade policy, our subsidised exports and tariffs policy, especially towards African countries. I am not trying to excuse structural differences and corruption in Africa, but when I think of corruption, the Bible immediately comes to mind: ‘Why do you see the mote that is in your brother's eye, and do not perceive the beam that is in your own eye?’

Germany grants protection (asylum) to every politically persecuted person. So far so good. If a refugee claims at the border that he has lost his passport, the border policeman does not have the right to check his identity on the basis of his mobile phone, which is not lost. If the asylum seeker claims that he is a minor (particularly worthy of protection), he cannot be required to have his hand x-rayed in order to verify his claims. The world laughs at this madness.

Great Britain: Who is a racist? The member of a grooming gang or the critic of a culture of tolerance that has allowed such gangs to emerge?

Technology

USA: Between 2013 and 2023, the share of patent applications in North America fell from 23.6% to 17.8%
Europe: Patent applications hav fallen from 13.5% in 2013 to 10.3% in 2023.
India: recorded a 15.7% increase in patent applications in 2023 and is the only country in the top 20 that has recorded growth in applications every year over the last ten years.
Indonesia and Morocco: have also recorded significant increases in patent applications.
China: On 14th May 2021 became the third country to achieve a soft landing on Mars.

Democracy

EU: The corrupt European Union has gradually usurped key competences - particularly in the areas of economics, law and foreign policy. The voters were never consulted about this.
Masochistic sanctions policy: The EU is imposing sanctions against Russia in violation of international law, but these only harm us. Cheap oil for our energy supply is banned - it is now being imported overpriced via other countries such as India. Incidentally, Russia is hardly harmed by this; the Russian economy is doing well. The rest of the world is laughing at the West.
Disenfranchisement of citizens: Through increasing censorship on the internet (Digital Services Act⁶). Ley Mordaza (the Spanish muzzle law). But freedom of expression is being restricted not only in Spain. The EU imposed sanctions against EU-citizens without any trial, which correspond to the reintroduction of medieval ostracism (imperial outlawry).

I'll save myself a further list.

Conclusion

For me, the political passivity of citizens in the decline of the West is similar to the current exhaustion in the fight against language imposition. In Germany, many politicians talk about citizens' disenchantment with politics. In fact, it is probably more a disenchantment with our politicians and the media, which celebrate these politicians instead of criticising them. Why do we put up with the nonsense of a man declaring himself to be a woman and vice versa? How depressed are we when we vote for politicians and parties whose promises we know are really just a mockery of their voters?

The increasing election of so-called right-wing populist parties is perhaps an explanation for the fact that citizens are still not taking action. But in Spain, the VOX, which is indeed far-right in many, but not all, respects, has already proven through the last election in Valencia that it too forgets its promises, namely the abolition of compulsory language learning in Valencian schools, and betrays its voters as soon as it joins the government.

I will continue not to trust any party. Whenever necessary, I will take a stand again on this blog against the language imposition and Spanish separatism. I remain optimistic about increasing activity against the decline of the West. In this more global context, I hope that (linguistic) common sense will also increase in the local and national sphere.

Footnotes

¹ Most of the statements in this article are based on queries in chatgpt.com. Please remember that chatgpt.com is also an AI that was programmed by humans, who can make mistakes, and reflects the interests of its creators.

² Spain’s blackout story is disintegrating

³ FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)

⁴ Europe has become increasingly isolated on the coronavirus issue since the number of lawsuits against the p(l)andemic and its profiteers has increased in the USA and around the world. The countries of the 3rd world have not really participated anyway. Chatgpt on the question of vaccination rates: ‘In Africa, for example, only 12.02% of the population had been fully vaccinated by March 2022.’ There were hardly any corona deaths, but many vaccination victims.

⁵ I am suspicious of all statistics and enjoy travelling, also to get an impression for myself. Two years ago I visited Morocco again after 20 years. Back then it was Africa, today it looked like Europe, or better. New roads, road and house construction everywhere. Rabat, the capital, has well-kept parks all over the city centre. A pretty metropolis in which, as in the whole of Morocco - at least for tourists - widespread poverty is no longer recognisable. The average economic growth rate over the last 20 years has been 3-4%. Last year I visited South East Asia. In Thailand, for example, you see fewer old cars than in Spain. Economic growth similar to Morocco,only that of Vietnam seems even stronger.

⁶Large online platforms should be obliged to take action against disinformation, subject to penalties. Who decides what constitutes disinformation? The mendacious governments that no longer recognise men and women?

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