I would also like to share with you this website that we fully support: http://www.stopbullfighting.org.uk/facts.htm. Please take a look to it because it perfectly
explains all the steps of this torture, from the pre-fighting treatment to the
assassination of the animal.
However, the aim of these posts is a different one; what we really try to
counter-argument is how this practice is sold all around the World as a
typical, inherent, intrinsic, feature of the Spanish culture. In our opinion,
behind this there is a clear and evident political interest which is aligned
with an old-fashion and mellow centralist conception of Spanish nationalism. This centralism
pretends to defend the existence of an ancient “españolidad” (Spanishness) with
a rooted tradition, culture, language and use of power.
This is just the first post about a long-debated, discussed and
controversial issue. But, from now on, we would like to make the point clear:
we are neither Spanish-nationalist, nor regionalist-nationalists (Catalan, Vasc-country,
etc.); what we hate and we want to denounce here is the systematic use of Madrid-centered political power in order to defend, promote and even impose
this artificial perspective of what is “Spanish” and what is not. This deserves the classification
as a Spainistan attitude.
