Talk:Gaudi (disambiguation)

Gaudí was Catalan, never spanish

Gaudí was Catalan, never spanish. During the dictatorship of José Antonio Primo de Rivera he was arrested by the Spanih police because he answered in Catalan to the police. This is just an anecdote of his life, but is very representative to show what I'm trying to say. I know Catalonia is (still) not a state but it hurt my eyes when I read such thing like "the Spanish Catalan architect" or similar. Please if you want to know more you just can go to Antoni Gaudí (in the Catalan wikipedia), translate (with google's "language tools" is quite easy) and read the seccion about "Gaudí and the catalanism". Even in the english wikipedia at Antoni Gaudí#Social and political influences says that "promoted the Catalan movement for regaining sovereignty from Spain [...]"!

I use to edit in the Catalan wikipedia, but what I don't like about it is that the states have write the history. And Spain, wrote our history. In the case of Gaudí, I know that a lot of people don't know what or where is Catalonia and, in consequence, they need an explanation like " X town, Catalonia, Spain" (or simply "X town, Spain), but saying that Gaudí was Spanish has no sense. In one hand, sure there are politics in the english wikipedia which say: that if this guy born in Barcelona, then is Spanish...acording to this has sense, but Gaudí never considered himself Spanish, so its a contradiction and then is when the wikipedia becomes unreliable... and its a pity. Sorry for my English, but I prefer to speak 2 languages perfectly (Catalan and Spanih) and another one not so good, instead of just knowing one. My page on the Catalan wikipedia --Catalaalatac (talk) 17:53, 8 November 2010 (UTC)