Catalonia Separatism Revives a Long-Dormant Spanish Nationalism<br />"And that’s quite exceptional in a European context." But in a country<br />that has seen two new parties, Podemos and Ciudadanos, enter Parliament in two years, no one will rule out the emergence of a far-right party or of a brand of nationalism that is likely to make many Spaniards and their European Union neighbors uncomfortable.<br />"It’s both unfortunate and normal that the escalation of Catalan nationalism, particularly in recent days, will fuel a Spanish nationalism<br />that already existed, even if it seemed to many to have been kept underground." That latent nationalism has also begun to resurface outside Spain.<br />Carlotta Carro said that In America people are proud to be patriots, whereas in Spain if you say<br />that you’re proud of your country, they say you’re a fascist,<br />eme right that defends far-right nationalism," he said. that there is definitely more probability of a party appearing from the extr<br />Equally dangerous, in the eyes of many Spaniards, is Catalonia’s threat to tear apart a country<br />that is a composite of regional identities and languages — including Basque and Galician as well as Catalan — a reality the government and the country have never truly found a comfortable way to digest.
