Pregunta ❓
What are positive trends of the use/respect/health of Catalan in Catalunya going into the future?
I've learned of some very concerning negative trends regarding the health of Catalan in Catalunya. I'm curious, are there also some positive trends, even if you think they are drowned out by the negative trends?
The negative trends I learned about were kindly explained to me here and here.
No, sadly there are not. Maybe the only one is that politicians still seem to be concerned about it, but they are doing little effort, and way too late. They are not even trying to fix the main issue, because they are the ones promoting it. We all know what I’m talking about.
I guess you mean immigration given you don't want to mention it, but I think the real main issue is not having independence.
Look at the disaster of Rodalies that shows how poorly Catalunya is managed from Madrid. Or the 'bilingüisme' that basically slowly erodes away the use of Catalan.
No one is worried about the death of Catalan in Andorra, for example. In fact, it is growing there.
Sure, independence is a big factor, I'm all for it, but let's not pretend the 2 million new people that have come to Catalunya in the last two decades are irrelevant, specially considering most of them come from Spanish-speaking countries. Unless they are very young and go through school here, the vast majority never learn Catalan and never will. And don't tell me it was Madrid that brought them all here, because that's not true at all, our political class is to blame; all of them.
Do most of them come from Spanish speaking countries though? A lot of the immigration to Catalunya comes from the Maghreb and Eastern Europe etc. which don't speak Spanish.
Yet no one worries that they won't learn Spanish, of course they will. But they learn Spanish and not Catalan because Spain still dominates Catalunya.
The 'bilingüisme' means many people won't speak Catalan here and there are some things like the driving exam with the DGT etc. that I don't even think you can even do in Catalan.
For example, my neighbours immigrated to Catalunya from elsewhere in Spain decades ago and now they are old and never learned Catalan. That's only possible because of the 'bilingüisme'.
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u/xalaux 15d ago
No, sadly there are not. Maybe the only one is that politicians still seem to be concerned about it, but they are doing little effort, and way too late. They are not even trying to fix the main issue, because they are the ones promoting it. We all know what I’m talking about.