#Basque country

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What do you think? https://youtu.be/WW4D-1Sa-r8?si=8peyR-RkNAeYOynL

Kaixo anon!

Somehow I thought somebody would ask me about that video? I watched it yesterday.

I'm suscribed to Linguriosa's channel and have learnt very much from her videos, that are generally well researched and explained.

This one isn't different. She tries to be somehow aseptic and focus on the laws that attacked Galego, Català, and Euskara during the dictatorship without too much assessment or analysis beyond that.

For instance, she says that the first ikastola (school 100% in Basque) was opened in Donosti in 1954 but fails to mention it was actually a clandestine school. She also fails to add context when she says thatin the 60s - the so-called "liberal phase" of the dictatorship" - magazines and records could be edited in Basque.

By that time, 23 years - a whole generation - of repression and punishment and making people ashamed had passed; that thousands of Basque-speakers had left their homes (27,000 to Cuba and +7,000 to France, just in 1937, and we're talking about the registered immigrants; it's calculated that half the people that escaped Spain did it illegaly);

Literally millions of people from the rural communities of Spain moved to the industrial capitals - especially Barcelona and Bilbo -, which made the few Basque speakers remaining not to interact in Basque since maaaaaaaany citizens were now from outside EH and Spanish, even though not over imposed by law as before, was very much imposed by the situation;

This is to say that by the 60s when Franco allegedly changed his mind and was so gracious as to let Basque people have content in our language, Basque was a TINY language on the verge of death. Unimportant. Incidental. Completely safe.

Then I see comments below Linguriosa's video saying something like "I am Basque and I was always taught that Basque was super banned under Franco and now I see that I was fed propaganda" and my heart breaks. Because this is exactly what happens when you fail to give as much context as possible to actually let people understand the whole picture and story.

Because, really, if you know nothing about this and watch the video, you actually get the idea that Franco became more tolerant regarding the minoritized languages in Spain as he got older and what he was actually doing was just laughing at our people: see? you have freedom to use your language now, too bad nobody can speak it anymore!

I'd love to know the takes of my friends @useless-catalanfacts and @jar-jar-ate on this, if they oblige! ^_^

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Juillet 16. Pottoks, Pays Basque

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Kings of the Laurel Forest

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(by hxcmeerkat)| Spain

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December 8, 2023 - Hundreds of people gathered in Guernica, Basque Country, to form a human flag in solidarity with the Palestinian people, as air raid sirens filled the air. The town of Guernica became symbol and a rallying cry against war crimes and the slaughter of civillians after German and Italian planes bombed the town for Franco's fascists in 1937, during the Spanish civil war, killing hundreds of innocent civillians. [video]

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Sea Waves, San Sebastián, Spain: Autumn is a time for spring tides in San Sebastián, and on days of high and low tide you can enjoy the incredible views of waves thundering against different parts of the coast for an absolutely breathtaking experience. The waves in San Sebastian Bay in winter can reach 30 meters in height... San Sebastián is a city and municipality located in the Basque Autonomous Community, Spain. It lies on the coast of the Bay of Biscay, 20 km from the France–Spain border. Wikipedia

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" Ancient Trees " //© Max Rive

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Oil paintings by wonderful Basque artist Alai Ganuza

So unique!

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Detalles del exterior de la catedral de María Immaculada (Vitoria, España)

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It's so dreary to see how often on this site many liberal USAmericans reduce fascism in Europe to nazi Germany.

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Juillet 16. Pottoks, Pays Basque

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Forest dwellers

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Monte Igueldo, San Sebastián

August 2023

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October 28/29, 2023 - A small selection of the world-wide protests in solidarity with Palestine. In Europe and North America hundreds of thousands took to the streets to condemn their governments' complicity in Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian people, and demanding an end to Israel's genocide and apartheid. [videos] Solidarity demonstrations pictured here: London, UK Berlin, Germany / New York City, USA Athens, Greece Toronto, Canada / Paris, France / Rome, Italy Detroit, USA / San Francisco, USA Bilbao, Basque Country / Lille, France / Montpellier, France Los Angeles, USA Glasgow, Scotland / Marseille, France Thessaloniki, Greece / Madrid, Spain / Valencia, Spain Den Haag, the Netherlands

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Catching some rays ☀️