JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
Why is Catalonia not into being separate from Spain? 
The Historical Basis for Catalonian Independence
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Where would you put Catalonia?
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
Somewhere not in Spain!
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
I would have commented on that (my father loves Tintin, it's inevitable that something would rub off him to me), but the Catalan issue was a far greater priority.
Maybe the Catalans are eminently more sensible than Northern Europeans and know not to flee their mother country during a huge global recession with no thought of how to actually set up a new country. 
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
Our mother country is none other than Catalonia! Catalonia Über Alles!
gangleri2001
Garbage day!!!
Maybe the Catalans are eminently more sensible than Northern Europeans and know not to flee their mother country during a huge global recession with no thought of how to actually set up a new country.
Our mother country is the Carolingian Empire and it hasn't been around for a while.
gangleri2001
Garbage day!!!
By that line of reasoning, my mother country is Claudius' empire in AD 45 or so. Let's not carried away, eh?
No. Your mother country is the Kingdom of England that hasn't been around since the 18th century.
Well, if we're going to claim long-dead historical counterparts, given my home location, it would have to be Alfred's Wessex in the ninth century.
Shall we drop this line of reasoning though? Not every throwaway comment should be taken as an insult to your family.
Shall we drop this line of reasoning though? Not every throwaway comment should be taken as an insult to your family.
gangleri2001
Garbage day!!!
You talked about mother countries, that's to say, countries that gave birth to the modern nation. In that sense, England is to the UK what the Carolingian Empire is to Catalonia.
No, it doesn't because England does not exist. There's only the UK and you are all British, remember?
NedimNapoleon
Weird Little Human
I say the Mongol empire should annex all of Euroasia.
I'm not going to discuss this any further with you.
eduhum
Aahh the gold old days...
Where is the County of Barcelona?? County of Barcelona free from "x" of Catalonia Now!
Don't be mad. Even though you're Spanish you can still be Catalan.
CELTICEMPIRE
Zulu Conqueror
Maybe the Catalans are eminently more sensible than Northern Europeans and know not to flee their mother country during a huge global recession with no thought of how to actually set up a new country.
The Welsh will rise up and overthrow the tyranny of England!
Then Scotland will be free, Ireland will be unified, and the Falklands will be returned to Argentina! It may not happen today, or tomorrow, but it will happen!
