I was having dinner yesterday with some friends.

The hostess, who is originally from Barcelona and a partisan of the catalonian independentism, declared that Catalonians are ‘more’ Romans than the Spanish, who are definitely ‘arabs’.

I had to refrain a spasm. Said nothing. Just kept concentrated on the few wine drops slipping down the curvy glass.

She kept going. While the uncultivated Spanish-arabs were living in the obscure Middle Ages, Catalonians enjoyed a very civilized life as they had Art, Mathematics, Agriculture, etc.

She was explaining that to her husband, a nice Austrian guy. He actually tried to argue that such a version of History did not make much sense when she abruptly stopped him recalling when they ‘saw’ the evidence in the History Museum of Catalonia (http://www.mhcat.net/).

When finished my cup of wine, I excused and left the gathering.

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