:-k i see..
can u edit the spanish constitution too?
coz if u were able to edit the constitution of 1978 so that catalunya is not an autonomous community of Spain... well then i could believe it :lol:
or maybe the spanish constitution too is not enough "official" :lol:
:lol: Well said.
FYI, Catalonia is not "forced to exist" under any banner. There is an independentist minority within Catalan society that might feel that way, the same way there are republicans that don't like having a King. But the vast majority of the Catalan people supported this Constitution of 1978. More than 90% of the voters approved the text. (You can verify this data reading the BOE - Official Bulletin of the State, date Dec-22 1978.
The facts are:
- Spain is one, indivisible country and the Spanish nation declared so under the 1978 Constitution, and well before under the 1812 Constitution.
- Catalonia has NEVER been a country itself. It was long a county (note I wrote county as in "count", not country) part of the Kingdom of Aragon, until its union with the Kingdom of Castile more than 500 ago in the formal creation of Spain.
- There is not such a thing as a Catalan nation, as there is not such a thing as a Madrid nation, an Andalusian nation or a Castilian nation. There is the Spanish nation, that declared its constitution back in 1978, built with the efforts and work of ALL Spanish regions and people. What is there is a feeling of identity and nation in some Catalan people, as recognized in their Autonomous Community statutes, which, BTW, declare on its very FIRST line, how Catalonia is an Autonomous Community as declared in the Spanish Constitution.
All this said, there is a Catalan team, as well as a team for each and every other region in Spain. They represent their regions, play accordingly in games that involve that kind of representation, and are of course not recognized by FIFA as national teams, the same way that the team of my city is not recognized by FIFA as an official national team, no matter how much my city might feel they are different, consider ourselves as a nation or whatever other feeling we might have.
Even if these days it doesn't seem to matter much, the fact is that reality some times still matters, and national teams need to represent nations. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland represent an exception being non-sovereign entities that are recognized by FIFA because of their Home Nation -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Nations- status. Again, they are constituent countries of an United Kingdom. They are not regions.
To me, this info is quite accurate, no matter how official Wikipedia might not be. As a matter of fact, it surely will be well more accurate than any source that you might provide that states how Catalonia is a country or a nation.
And of course Argentina would take a beating on Catalonia (or on Spain, for that matter) any day of the week.
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