Joseba Arregi at Stanford, "The Social and Political Basque Reality"
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- Conference given at Stanford University on April 3rd 2008.
- Co-sponsored by Iberia-Spanish Association at Stanford, the ASSU Speakers Bureau and the Graduate Student Council.
- Professor Joseba Arregi has been invited to Stanford in the aftermath of the visit by the President of the Basque Autonomous Community in Spain, Juan Jose Ibarretxe.
- The goal of the conference is to provide the Stanford community with a constitutionalist view of the so called "Basque Problem".
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ABSTRACT OF THE TALK
I speak to you as a person whose mother and father spoke Basque, who among his family only speaks Basque, and who makes his living as a professor of Basque at the University. Also I am a person who was jailed under military jurisdiction in 1968 by the Franco regime.
Basques do not pay taxes to the Spanish Government, all taxes are collected by our own institutions under their own applicable tax legislation. We take care of our own education, our services such as water and sewage disposal, build our own roads, and have our own communication services.
But even including those who understand but do not speak Basque, we are only about 30% of the population, and the majority, 70% of us, say that they are both Basque and Spanish at the same time. The Basque society is pluralistic and complex, following the model of the 19th century in which the Basques had a double loyalty, a double patriotism.
In a society such as this, the only viable system is an internal agreement among the different parties, which is called the "Estatuto de Autonomia", which could be translated as the "Law of Autonomy". This sort of unifying consensus has been in force in only two occasions lately - during the Second Republic (1936) and since 1980.
- Joseba Arregi- Conference given at Stanford University on April 3rd 2008.
- Co-sponsored by Iberia-Spanish Association at Stanford, the ASSU Speakers...all »- Conference given at Stanford University on April 3rd 2008.
- Co-sponsored by Iberia-Spanish Association at Stanford, the ASSU Speakers Bureau and the Graduate Student Council.
- Professor Joseba Arregi has been invited to Stanford in the aftermath of the visit by the President of the Basque Autonomous Community in Spain, Juan Jose Ibarretxe.
- The goal of the conference is to provide the Stanford community with a constitutionalist view of the so called "Basque Problem".
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ABSTRACT OF THE TALK
I speak to you as a person whose mother and father spoke Basque, who among his family only speaks Basque, and who makes his living as a professor of Basque at the University. Also I am a person who was jailed under military jurisdiction in 1968 by the Franco regime.
Basques do not pay taxes to the Spanish Government, all taxes are collected by our own institutions under their own applicable tax legislation. We take care of our own education, our services such as water and sewage disposal, build our own roads, and have our own communication services.
But even including those who understand but do not speak Basque, we are only about 30% of the population, and the majority, 70% of us, say that they are both Basque and Spanish at the same time. The Basque society is pluralistic and complex, following the model of the 19th century in which the Basques had a double loyalty, a double patriotism.
In a society such as this, the only viable system is an internal agreement among the different parties, which is called the "Estatuto de Autonomia", which could be translated as the "Law of Autonomy". This sort of unifying consensus has been in force in only two occasions lately - during the Second Republic (1936) and since 1980.
- Joseba Arregi«
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