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    the cultural differences between its Spanish and Basque inhabitants. The 2.1 million people of Euskadi, the Basque area of Spain, speak a different language than typical Spaniards, have a separate culture and society from that of Spain; and have a history of their own. Throughout the decades, these major cultural differences contained within the borders of Spain have continued to cause conflict between the Spanish people and the people of the Basque area. Many within la comunidad autónoma del país

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    In the Basque country (and in Basque communities in the United States), identities are formed in different ways depending on your family background, especially where you are from. Basques living in traditional, rural communities live very different lives than Basques living in urban Basque areas, or Basques living in North America. While there are many differences between the identities of the people in these different communities, they all have their Basque-ness in common. In rural Basque areas

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    What Is Askatasuna?

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    terrorist group that existed in the Basque region of Spain and in the southwestern part of France. Founded in 1959, it originated as a group that promoted the traditional Basque culture. What started as an organization that wanted to spread Basque pride, ended with a terrorist group that had a goal of getting independence for the Basque Country. While the ETA terrorist group was in action, they killed an estimated 857 people, 576 of which were located within the Basque region (Martin-Peña). The ETA developed

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    Spain. Francisco Franco ruled Spain, and the Basques were mistreated by the government. Their language and culture was forbidden. The Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) was established in 1959 with the objected of fighting Franco’s tyranny. In 1968, an ETA member was killed by the Spanish Civil Guard. Later, the ETA got revenge by killing a police commissioner who was

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    interact with one another whether through ideas, culture, money or socially is dependent upon preserving individualism which has not proven to be the easiest task to master. The cultural differences related to the Irish living on the British Isles, the Basque population in Spain, Serbs under Ottoman rule, as well as Moroccans under French control can still be felt in many ways today and have impacted people and nations around the globe. Analysis The Irish have a longstanding history of struggle when it

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    Catalan, spoken in northeastern Spain and southeastern France, and Basque, a language isolate spoken in northern Spain and southwestern France, are minority languages. Both are distinct from Castilian Spanish with their own literature, people, and culture. While Basque and Catalan are prevalent in their respective Spanish autonomous communities, the “border” of the Països Catalans (Catalan Countries) and Euskal Herria (Basque

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    There are many groups of people throughout the world, who have either managed to keep their system of values and traditions relevant or have been forced to conform to the modern ways of the region they inhabit. The Basque people are a group of indigenous that claim the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains around the Bay of Biscay in northern Spain and southern France for thousands of years. Indigenous people are originating or occurring naturally in a particular place; native. By analyzing and interpreting

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    European Nationalism Case Study---Catalan During the development of Europe, Nationalism played an important role. Initially, in the 19th century, a wave of nationalism swept the whole continent of Europe from romantic nationalism to a variety of European countries .Subsequently, there were some new countries in the different ways to initialize their movement on nationalism, such as “the Romantic exaltation of "feeling" and "identity" and the Liberal requirement that a legitimate state be based

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    Basques Social Structure

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    The Basques are people who inhabit a region spanning over parts of north-central Spain and southwestern France. Some people are still confused as to where they have originated from. Basques are now mainly found in an area traditionally known as Euskal Herria, which is located around the western end of the Pyrenees on the coast of the Bay of Biscay. The Basques language is also called the Euskera. The Basque language is an extremely complex language which has no close relatives anywhere else in the

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    lack of national identity was what gave way to the “Myth of El Greco” in fin-de-sïecle Spain. Lubar proposes that the ‘myth’ connected tradition and modernity whilst illustrating the middle class’ pursuit to construct hegemony for Catalan cultural nationalism. The “Myth of El Greco” was deployed in context with

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