Matthew Tree: “Catalonia will only be fully understood abroad if it becomes independent from Spain"

The English writer Mathew Tree has stated that Catalonia will be fully understood abroad if it becomes independent from Spain. Tree has presented his last book Barcelona, Catalonia: A View from the Inside, in which the author gives many examples of how foreigners do not understand Catalan reality or how they do not know anything about it.

"It is not a particularly nationalist country, in the sense that catalanism has no ethnic component or whatsoever; everything is based on the culture and the language", says Tree, who is very critical with the Spanish State in general and particularly with its attitude towards Catalonia. Whenever Catalan people decide to do something that goes against the Spanish nationalism or against Spanish establishment, Madrid makes all Catalan aspirations fail. Tree says that this attitude is "an insult to collective intelligence", and he actually states that if Madrid does not change its attitude, Catalonia will eventually become an independent nation.

You can see a 2-minute video with Mathew Tree presenting Catalonia to foreigners:

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