Sorry if I play a very topical issue and even exhausted as discussed in our country.
As some of you know I've been in a few days Barcelona parties going on there La Mercè with a couple of friends. Long ago he would not, and besides the desire and enthusiasm to reconnect with a cosmopolitan, modern and open the world (one of my friends even comes knocking 'The New York of Spain' ), had as many people the most shameful morbillo check what it was like people in their daily lives and how we try. You know what I mean, of politicking going.
And what I've seen is that in a few previous trips people had treated me so well. I saw a multilingual city perfectly natural. Young people having fun as is done in Spain (including, yes, exactly, abusing alcohol). Tapas bars in the Passeig de Gracia and flamenco in Ramblas. Parades of giants and big heads like those of my city (though with many more figures, of course). Old people dancing Sardana in Plaça Sant Jaume just like the dancing Chotis in San Isidro. Many concerts in four different languages, through a partnership Barcelona Accio Musical. I did not hear anyone whistling when foreign singers, oblivious to our internal quarrels, shouting 'Come on Barcelona! We Spain! " or the like to entertain the crowds. A city that throbs and-mostly-live undisturbed in its normal .
But: I have seen a similar amount of English flags and banners independence: almost zero (if we discount the souvenir stalls and government buildings.) Bearing in mind that Madrid have heard a crowd of college students (I stress it in college) screaming 'go for the fascist! " and running after a man carrying a flag of Spain, Barcelona seems pretty decent.
As Daniel said Carbonell, Barcelona and singer Macaco, during the concert to shut the holidays:
I think a flag should be used to represent a series of positive values \u200b\u200bthat unite people. Unfortunately, today only used for the opposite. Divide us and confront us. Let the word for political revolution, and talk and Evolution. We do not sell more bikes.And this holding in his hands a giant flagpole from which hung a blue and yellow flag. The sailors who used to write the letter 'K', and to say at sea: 'I want to communicate' .