Let’s start with a no-brainer: Catalan is in a situation of manifest inferiority, far from the vaunted bilingualism, in areas such as the Justice (where it is not always possible to be attended in one of the two official languages) and the audiovisual, where it has almost humiliating quotas, to give just two examples. Instead, it is a reasonably competitive language in the publishing industry, in the theater or even in school, thanks to language immersion. Let’s say that the balance of your health, although it must still improve a lot, is very far from the apocalypse that some seek, because it is not in danger in the medium term, nor is it of course any threat to Castilian, as only those who have never set foot in Catalonia claim and fantasies are invented for dark purposes. In this context of more or less acceptable normality, one of the surprising events of recent times is how a certain independence movement has once again put the issue of language on the table. At the beginning of the ‘procés’, between 2011 and 2015, Catalan was never a throwing weapon of any independence party, and sovereignty proudly displayed the Spanish-speaking ‘indepes’ as an example of transversality and as a message for ‘the day after’: if one day we are independent, we were told, no one has to suffer for their language.
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