I review the
history of Spain again and I will make it because although I have repeated it
many times it seems that the Spaniards don't believe it to him or worse still,
they care little, because they are already accustomed or because in the bottom
they like to have an excuse by hand for not making anything for themselves to
solve the problems of their history, it is a lot but comfortable to live
tossing him the blame from everything to the state or the destination that to
admit the indifference of oneself and for I finish the I will repeat because I
am no longer me alone who analyzes the national reality.
Today I read
an article in "The Economist" that "Spain is titled a country of
economic" ends in that you begins detailing that Spain is the country of
the OECD where more has grown the social differences during the crisis.
Institutions and social organizations put the scream in the sky in the face of
a reality that can generate conflicts. But this is not new this can astonish
the members of OECD but Spain is this way that is to say from the XV century from
du foundation like Kingdom of Spain, alone it is necessary to have or to read
the big Spanish literary works and they will be reflected the society system
that they created and they maintained the kings and rulers that from then on
have conformed to the Spanish society with these big inequalities that today
astonishes the OECD and the western world
An article
published by "The Vanguard "agglutinates the voices that alert of the
serious problem of galloping increase of the inequality that is given in Spain.
The OECD and the IMF verify it, the same as they have made it ONG's like Save
the Children, Cáritas, Intermon Oxfam, or Human Rights. In the aim point, the
different governments that have directed to the country from 2007 and that
together with the politicians of austerity favored by Brussels they would not
have made more than to allow that the biggest economic effort demanded to
confront the crisis has relapsed in those who had fewer resources.
The data
scare. According to the OECD, Spain occupies the first place in the ranking of
growth in social inequality during the crisis. Between 2008 and 2012 the
revenues of the Spanish homes fell 2.600 Eurus for person, "one of the
strongest falls among the countries of the euro zone". Also, 54% of adults
in age of working only have employment; the third rate of lower occupation of
the 34 countries of the OECD, there being you increased the unemployment in
13.000 people a week between 2007 and 2013. According to the EPA, at the
present time, 36% of Spanish homes have all its stopped members.
The OECD also
estimates that 10% of the poorest Spaniards would have lost a third of its
revenues from 2007, while 10% of the richest Spaniards would only have seen
lower its earnings 1%, being Plentiful in this sense, the ONG Intermón Oxfam
affirms that "20 richer people from Spain possess a similar fortune to the
revenues of the poorest" population's 20%.
On the other
hand, Save the Children aims that "Spain has failed when taking out of the
poverty to almost three million children that suffer it in the country and they
place it in the line of Europe, only for before Greece."
According to
The Vanguard, the Government is worried by this growing inequality and he is
afraid that it derives in a serious social problem when the economy begins to repented,
the voices that they speak of improvement of the situation multiply and,
however, a wide base of the society doesn't perceive the same thing day by day
in its. And it is that this goes it is necessary to be those of the OECD they
cannot understand this way possibly it but Spain is a western country that is
governed almost by social parameters in vigor in the Arab countries, some few
ones they live well and most happens like he can, but this is not of now it is
that somebody has forgotten that almost the whole Iberian peninsula was Arab during
7 centuries.
If we look at
the Spanish map of more marked inequality in all the social aspects, we will
see like it coincides fully in the places where more time was low the domain of
the Arab, that is to say the whole center and Iberian south, and this situation
because it lasts century after century, you wondered, because other 7 centuries
have already passed from then on and he has not gotten ready anything, they
follow the same fundamental imbalances although modified to the norms of modern
life.
The question
is purely political it is of system of state organization, my opinion is the
following one. Spain is fruit of the reconquest of an Iberian territory that
had been invaded and conquered by the Arab to an amalgam of Kingdom medieval
Visigoths, the factor maybe more important for the Visigoth fall the serious
demographic crisis of the Kingdom that had lost more than its population's
third in the last twenty-five years was. This was due to the epidemics of pest
and the years of drought and hunger of final of the century VII.
The conquest
or the Arab establishment was special because you outlines kind of a
coexistence among the Kingdom or Visigoth establishments and Jews that were we
settled down that is to say in the peninsula, and the new conquerors that were
not to say it of some way occupants, they were not implanted in its new
territories, in fact I believe me that it was because they were always few in
number, the Muslims come to simply to war or to conquer, but not to occupy,
with the whole culture that they contributed he really made jag in the
peninsula, let us don't forget that they were here seven centuries.
But to what I
refer it is that they didn't end up creating a strong social culture the Arab
bosses, accompanied by Berber mercenaries, they didn't bring any new
civilization, since the Islam (excepting the Arab language and the religion
that yes they come originally from Arabia) it didn't still exist so they
cohabited with many Christian Jews and also with government's incomplete
structures, caliphates, Christian Kingdom, Counties, etc. in fact from the same
Arab invasion the "reconquest" began.
The term is
historically inexact, because the Christian Kingdom that
"reconquered" the peninsular territory were constituted with posteriori
to the Islamic invasion, in spite of the intents of some of these monarchies to
be presented as direct inheritors of the old Visigothic Kingdom. It would be a desire
of political legitimating of these Kingdoms rather that in fact were considered
real heirs and descending of the Visigoths, and also the intent of the
Christian Kingdom (especially Castile) of justifying their conquests, when
being considered heirs of blood of the Goths.
Be as was, the
reconquest was a to go and to come from warring actions many unconnected that
took to end different Iberian Kingdom, finally we can say that the Kingdom of
Catilla and Aragon conclude her who they decide to found a single Kingdom and
there he begins we would say in the 1942 the one on the way to the modern
Spain, but for a reason or other the prevalence of the Kingdom of Spain is
always located in the center of the peninsula, there he settles down the real
court and the power, Valladolid, Toledo, and finally Madrid sat down
royalty.
And at the
same time that he settled the power, the central court he moved away from the
periphery and the imbalances come from then on it is not a historical story it
is a historical reality, Spain he doesn't know or he doesn't want or he is not
able to balances, it is maybe a defect inexplicable but it is real and that if
we deepen but still, we could see that a duality that is in Madrid and
Barcelona, the first capital of the castilla Kingdom, and the second capital of
the Kingdom of Aragon from Ramón Berenguer IV matrimonial union and Petronila,
almost exists it was also the city where habitually the king from Aragon was
and where the File of the Crown of Aragon was centralized.
In definitive
from these two poles concentrates the power the economy the politics and from
them it happens a common fact the concentration, instead of expanding it seems
that they absorb everything toward them as if of two black holes it was, it is
evident a fundamental difference between both which is the influence territory,
Barcelona is bounded this way a lot in a territory but small what allows him to
balance it a lot of better, this way today Catalonia is in its balanced better
entirety that Spain, to the one that Madrid neither he has known neither I
believe that he can for resources and for habit to reconstruct a Spain in which
the social and economic differences don't call the attention to the OECD and
the world in general.
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