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Giner, Salvador
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
More acceptance between Spain and Catalonia
Spain is discussing Catalonia's Statute of Autonomy, which four years after it came into force has now been declared partially unconstitutional by the Spanish Constitutional Court. A group of Catalan intellectuals calls in the left-liberal daily El País for a realignment of relations between Spain and Catalonia: "The Spanish must accept that Catalonia is a nation, that it is a community with a clear awareness of possessing its own historical identity, its own language and its own will to reinforce its political independence. The Catalans must then for their part recognise that Spain is not just a state but a very old Western nation with a Castilian culture with which - despite all the mishaps of the past - it would be convenient for both sides to maintain privileged relations."
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Salvador Giner analyses the transformation of Spanish society
In an interview conducted by Carles Geli, the Spanish sociologist Salvador Giner, who has just been given the 2006 National Award for Sociology and Political Science, analyses the social and political evolution of Spain. "What took 120 years in the North of Europe has taken 30 years here. Everybody is talking about a political transition, but it is on a cultural level that this has been most extraordinary. Spain was a country that burned churches down and where the Catholics killed Freemasons. Forty years on, the churches are empty. The conflagration of churches has been replaced by an indifference to them. This is a brutal leap. Conversely, the ethnic-cultural leap has not been very big: 'Catalanism' and 'Andalousianism' have been reinforced. Collective Spanish identities have been intensified. This may be the result of a compensatory process stemming from the loss of this personality. We have no more beliefs left: we are proving as indifferent to the Church as we are to the Communist Party."
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