"A five-year-old can come with the reference of a German painter, but then he doesn't know who José Luis Zumeta is."

GOTZON Barandiaran

The writer and cultural promoter Gotzon Barandiaran is concerned about the transmission of Basque culture and the lack of knowledge it has. Often, even though Basque society has committed itself to language, Barandiaran is clear that a language cannot be normalised without culture, and that culture cannot be normalised if it is not normalised. “A language that is so oppressed, so marginalized, so diminished… in our country brings a culture of decline, marginalization and trampling. This means that our cultural system and ecosystem are not healthy.”