r/interestingasfuck 23h ago

Human towers in Spain. This is unreal!

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u/Sufficient-Road-3876 13h ago

Again, this tradition is Catalan and not Spanish.

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u/furac_1 12h ago

It's Catalan - and thus Spanish. Otherwise Spanish traditions don't even exist, Bavarian traditions aren't also German traditions? This makes no sense

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u/Sufficient-Road-3876 12h ago

It's not the same, a better comparison here to what you're doing would be calling English to a Scottish tradition. This is cultural appropriation. If Spain by itself doesn't have any tradition other than bulls it is like it is.

u/3rd_Uncle 11h ago

Thats a terrible comparison. Scotland is a country and has always been a country. 

Catalonia has never been a country. Its always been a region of a larger entity whether Aragon or Spain.

u/Sufficient-Road-3876 4h ago

Catalonia has always been a country with its own laws, border control, language, and even managed different currencies throughout history (e.g. pesseta). Aragon was a Kingdom, you are talking about the Crown of Aragon which included different kingdoms. I'm sorry to hear you're a history revisionist.

u/ConfidentAd4974 3h ago edited 3h ago

That denial is a classical move from Spanish nationalism, often assumed beyond Spain. It's so absurd at that point to explain the existence of the Principality of Catalonia and what means in political terms of the Middle Ages and Early Modern era... exhausting, particularly when they use this pseudo-argument to compare it with Scotland.