Talk:Spanish nationalism

Spanish nationalism in current political parties
Although the Popular Party (Partido Popular in Spanish) is undoubtedly a nationalist party, no comment has been written about it. Most of its leaders are proud Spanish nationalists, although they call themselves as "Spanish patriots" or "Constitutionalists" (that is, Spanish Constitution defenders). The difference between patriotism and nationalism is almost invisible, so I propose to include them in a kind of "21st century Spanish nationalists" section. Besides, this political party is widely known as a Spanish nationalist party in important Spanish nations as Catalonia and the Basque Country. --Mreq (talk) 17:52, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
 * There is more information in the spanish article, that is very long indeed; but I stopped the translation (began by Varano) in the introduction (my bad english made it not very easy). Perhaps somebody can go on with it. But, nevertheless, there is already a short mention of the political parties, and I don't think wikipedia must label any party with nationalist or not without longest explanation (see the spanish article). On the other hand, I'm afraid that your sentence The difference between patriotism and nationalism is almost invisible, although I might be in agreement with it in some way, is not accurate enough.--Ángel Luis Alfaro (talk) 08:19, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Citation needed
I don't think that the two requests of references are necessary. 1- that Nor has this been a centripetal nationalism is explained just after: to have been aimed at unifying communities of Spaniards under the yoke of other sovereignties. The centripetal nationalisms was the german and the italian. 2- other autonomous communities have less obvious nationalisms (often described as regionalisms), based on linguistic or historical differential facts no less marked than the previous ones; it's just obvious: in Valencia and Balearic Islands there is another language talked along with castilian; every other spanish region, with no exception, can find a "glorious past" with independent kingdoms and his own institutions, local law, culture and custom.--Ángel Luis Alfaro (talk) 09:28, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * After two months there is no discussion of that point, so I remove the citation needed.--Ángel Luis Alfaro (talk) 08:02, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Last paragraph is completely biased
Last paragraph is pure bullshit. It's full of bias and should make you feel ashamed:

"From a more majoritary point of view, in social, territorial and electoral terms,[11] the identification with Spain, its symbols and institutions has become more characteristic of constitutional patriotism or civic nationalism,[12] which seeks to respect the different visions of Spain fits in a pluralistic framework, inclusive and no exclusive, concepts in which often coincide the majoritary political parties (PSOE and PP) or minoritary (IU, UPyD, other regional parties or nationalist sometimes called moderated), despite maintaining deep political differences sometimes expressed in a very crisped way.[13]"

It begins stating that Spanish nationalism is, from a majoritary point of view (i.e social, territorial and electoral terms), just "constitutional patriotism & civic nationalism".

With regard to the "social majoritary point of view", I suppose you mean most of Spanish population. Indeed, most of Spanish population (i.e. Spaniards living outside Catalonia, Basque Country and Galicia) are known at once as "Constitutionalists" (the term they prefer to use when referring to themsleves) and as Spanish nationalists (the term used by the so-called peripheral Spain). On the other hand, it's obvious that both the so-called constitutionalist Spain and the peripheral Spain are nationalists, or at least both of them vote nationalist political parties such as PP, UP&D, PNV, ERC, some PSOE branches and so on. I am not going to spend time demonstrating why these parties are nationalist, since it's quite obvious all of them fit very well the nationalist standards. But what really matters is all these parties have a common feature: none of them wants to be considered as nationalist (excepting PNV). Then, why should we consider more valid the opinion of most part of Spanish population, if on the hole they are nationalists as well? Hence the reason why the social argument (i.e. the numerical argument) is not valid.

Regarding the "territorial terms", the explanation is exactly the same: most of Spanish territories are controlled by nationalist parties such as PP, ERC, PNV, UP&D and so on; these parties don't like to be considered as nationalists; but on the hole all of them are so. Non-valid argument again.

And regarding the "political terms", the same: most of Spanish political parties are nationalist, they don't like it, but on the hole they are so. Why should we consider as valid the opinion of the bigger Spanish nationalist party (i.e. PP) with respect to who is and who isn't nationalist in here? All of them are nationalist. Non-valid argument once again.

Then the article goes on stating the so-called Constitutionalist Spain respect a pluralistic vision of the country and so on, and finally the article points out some political parties which are supposed to respect this plurality. And guess what, PP and UP&D are mentioned among these parties! Pure bullshit! There are clear evidences demonstrating the ideology and the programs of these two parties with regard to the so-called peripheral Spain are totally depicable, and that's the actual reason why they are minorities in such regions: nobody votes them since they're, guess what, Spanish nationalists!

In conclusion, this article has to be deeply modified. Otherwise, as I've demonstrated it will be totally biased and full of nonsense. --Mreq (talk) 13:14, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Please do not use offensive expresions. Every point in this paragraph (and in the whole article too) is well and enough referenced. You have not read adequately and then, you have made your own arguments, your own conclusions (not based in the article, but in your imaginary image of it) and labeling parties from your own point of wiew. Then, I don't agree with you when you ask for a deep modification.--Ángel Luis Alfaro (talk) 18:51, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

This infamous edit by Mreq should be erased Fireinthegol (talk) 17:46, 22 February 2010 (UTC)

About this article
This text is no realistic. I'm Spanish and i know what reality I live, and that self called "encyclopedic" text don't fixed with the social thought in Spain. The society it's so divided with the Nationalism, and United Left don't support a Nationalist policy. I think that this kind of declarations are partial, and used by politics groups to show a false view of the Spanish people and Culture — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.29.31.228 (talk) 22:49, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Erasing of nationalism info
Will all my respect @Asqueladd, I think you mistake. To clean the nation (by eugenics) is extreme nationalism. Beside, it is very clear the nationalism on the republican side, as described with clear examples, and even a ultranationalist quote from Negrin. Of course, it could be expressed better or in an another way, but I truly do not understand your criteria. Maldull (talk) 14:45, 27 April 2023 (UTC)


 * I just saw @Asqueladd that you describe as original research the point of eugenics. Please, if you ignore anything, do no expose your ignorance. Maldull (talk) 14:48, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
 * I've removed recently-added content fitting a WP:COATRACK profile, wildly straying both in terms of inline wording and sources away from the topic of the article, with serious breaches on Wikipedia policies and guidelines such as WP:NOR, WP:UNDUE, WP:VER, WP:SYNTH, WP:BALASP, WP:POINT, and WP:RELIABLE found out in a cursory and non-exhaustive examination of the sources, to which the aforementioned prose (which also fails to adequately stay on topic) adds up. In case a third party wants to drop an opinion (probably the only way forward, because I feel I am wasting my time with this drivel, and I suspect the other user feels the reciprocal towards me), this is it the removed content: . In Maldull's talk page, in addition to having explained all of this to them over and over again, I've also proposed this user to use some quality scholar sources from which they can draw from to address some of the aspects of the topic they seem to be interested in, to no success, preferring to acrimoniously stir up an ad passiones-tincted straw man fallacy around the concept of eugenics instead. As for the proposal of connecting the topic of the article (an idea or movement) to any other idea or movement (be it eugenics, republicanism...), I've got no objections in principle whatsoever (I'd actually applaud the effort), insofar 1) the scholar sources holistically dealing about Spanish nationalism provide the sourcing, weight, and context; and 2) content should stay on topic. On both fronts, that is certainly not the case here.--Asqueladd (talk) 17:22, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Aside of eugenics, that can be found more material, upon other corrections, it seems that, reputed historian Borja de Riquer mades Original content when talks about spanish nationalism. Also the historian and Prime minister Cánovas del Castillo, when, in 1888, asks the renewal of basis of Spanish nation is something stupid that do not fit to nationalism. Well, it is not need to say anything more, and of course, neither made an edition war, it is not my business. Maldull (talk) 16:53, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
 * With your edits here, you have not demonstrated how to select good sources for a given article (so no wonder you think a selfpublished primary source labelled as historical novel about a loosely connected topic creates a case for due weight in this article), and neither how to provide adequate context for your content addition and how to stay on topic. And you know what? Borja de Riquer was already cited in the article (by a humble server, btw), with a statement about Spanish nationalism using a source about Spanish nationalism and not about myscelanea stripped of context (timely warning that context should still be provided by the source, instead of being concocted by you, remember). In addition your edits clearly violate WP:SYNTH and WP:OR in other ways such as, for example, the addition of laughable editorialised connectors (unmistakably your input and not any source's) such as "All of this can be illustrated with", "of which three can be chosen" "Since it does not seem to have had consequences, not much has been investigated, but..." (this is not exhaustive) which are signs of heavy original research, WP:OPINION and WP:SOAPBOXing.... And going to the meat. You have added a bit about Cánovas del Castillo. But currently there is not enough context (which needs to be framed by the source in the scope of the topic rather than manufactured by any editor) to justify its presence in the section (it reads offtopic). I suspect that you are trying "to make a point" but you should bear in mind that 1) this is not a platform for advocacy nor for novel ways to present ideas 2) you are doing it in a very clumsy fashion.--Asqueladd (talk) 18:19, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, yes, you are totally certain. Maldull (talk) 14:23, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

What the hell is the lead
That's really all I have to say, it's so unfluently written that I can't even tell if its violating NPOV or not. Orchastrattor (talk) 00:12, 2 December 2023 (UTC)

Biased section (21st century) (or in need for review)
The 21st century section is largely biased, overexaggerated, and, at times, irrelevant or off-topic. For example, the "fiscal drainage of the Catalan-speaking territories" has nothing to do with Spanish nationalism; and if included, it should be used as a dependent clause and in the Catalan nationalism article. Catalanophobia is also exaggerated and the article transmits that it is a common practice ("at the same time, the media and social networks are a vehicle for the dissemination of a subtle or explicit Catalanophobia", "The incorporation of varying degrees of Catalanophobia into the banal nationalism of large sections of Spanish society is sublimated in cries of attack such as 'a por ellos, oé' by the population"), and it is sometimes romanticized ("The language and culture of a population of around 10 million Catalan-Valencian speakers is non-existent in the Spanish media"). The sentence explaining the range of insulting references to Catalans is unnecessary.

The romantic theme of the section is present in its entirety ("in the absence of other states where it is spoken, is doomed to extinction in the medium or short term", or in constant references and comparisons to the fascist Francoist regime), and it's not appropriate in a Wikipedia article. Some sentences or claims are inaccurate (for example, that blaverism was originally defended by the Spanish extreme right while a large section of its supporters came from the center-right UCD) or use sentimentalist adjectives or one-sided terminology like "the violent police repression of October 1, 2017" or "2017 thwarted referendum on Catalan independence" instead of the more neutral "constitutional crisis" or simply "2017 Catalan independence referendum".

Even then, it is almost exclusively centered on repression by Spanish nationalism towards Catalan nationalism (which may be slightly off-topic and does not reference other nationalist movements in the Spanish territory [EDIT: or the central theme of the article: Spanish nationalism]).

The biased or exaggerated claims and language can also be seen in the section of the article regarding the Francoist regime (or other edits by Maldull), or it simply goes completely off-topic ("Relations Spanish National Catholicism-German National Socialism") which barely addresses nationalism and instead explains political similarities and ties between the Francoist and Nazi dictatorships.

Overall, I think the section (or a significant part of the article) needs an objective rework that is based on "Wikipedia is written from a neutral point of view". Serg885588 (talk) 07:30, 17 July 2024 (UTC)
 * is a sock of a LTA user and I suspect that they are not going to show up here. I invite you to revert their additions, which in addition to obvious weight issues in regard of the sourcing as well as the activist-like editorialization, they simply tend to stray off topic.--Asqueladd (talk) 16:38, 17 July 2024 (UTC)