BASQUE COUNTRY
BASQUE COUNTRY
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- Nairn0
I have a lot of Basquish friends (met in Newcastle over many years, bizarelly) and I go to Bilbao once a year.
The Basques are fucking great people - mad bastards for sure - they tend towards the extreme...
A very proud race, with an enviable form of nationalism - a pride in their history and culture, not in some 'superiority'.
When you consider what Spain (ie Franco and the Republik) has done over the years to their entire people and culture, you can understand where the problems come from. Understand - but of course, not accept. Bad things happen everywhere, of course - the 'problems' with ETA etc are just, in this instance, a well-known face for a certain kind of person.