Euskera with memory
Autobiography writing is, they say, the most effective tool for personal development, the most liberating. Pulling things away from the past and remembering them, it seems that it helps unleash the knots of the present. Yes, it helps to understand the present and to draw a future that suits us. By reviewing everyday attitudes, as we are, we begin to express them with less nexus.
The words of the personal subject are equally valid for a People. Bound to the identity of our People, they are prisoners of the events of the past. The past we have is so traumatic! 1200, 1512, 1620, 1789, 1833/72, 1914, 1936. They're not insignificant numbers. These are not years of banal events. These are significant times in our history. How many deaths, how many wounded, how many sufferings! What oppression is the one that is still going on!
Let us imagine that the culture of the Basques is a hamlet. 1200 years ago, this culture gave itself a state, a roof, to protect itself from the attacks of strangers: The kingdom of Pamplona, which would then come from Navarra. But in the years we have mentioned before that roof has been destroyed. We no longer have protection. More than a stateless nation, we are a stateless nation. What about the homeless without a roof? It erodes and falls. We Basques are in that port.
More than a stateless nation, we are a stateless nation. What about the homeless without a roof? It erodes and falls. In that port we are the Basques
What do we do? It's up to us to resist, putting a canopy on the naked farmhouse. I think this awning needs two handles; two columns: Euskera and memory. The two columns that enemies hit violently to destroy our identity.
Few know the autobiography of our People. Knowing it would help us a lot to understand the present and to draw the strategies that suit us.
How do we spread our history? We have a network of agents of the Basque Country, the heritage of the rebirth of the 1950s and 1980s. What do you think, is so important that the topic of memory is disseminated through that network, along with the Basque?
Innovation in the world of new generation Basque culture would be that, which would also include memory. In addition, I believe that knowing the past also encourages the motivation to learn or use the Basque language. In this way, both axes would feed each other and strengthen our identity.
We are because they were independent and we want to be independent again.
Let's guess!
Iñaki Idigoras Igartua
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