[The_Reader_David]

It’s not just the Basques. Although there is no violence associated with the movement, Catalonia would like to be its own country, too. There is a lot of resentment that the EU won’t recognize Catalan as an official language because it’s not the language of a member state, even though there are more Catalan speakers than there are Danish speakers.

[Clemenza]

I've spent alot of time in Catalonia. Catalans would not be so uncouth to start bombing government buildings. They are very bitter about losing Barcelona to "foreigners" (you hear alot more Spanish being spoken in Barcelona than the outlying towns thanks to Andalucian and now Latin American immigrants).

Catalan is more closely related to Occitan (Provencal) than it is to Spanish. Didn't stop General Franco from trying to claim that it was a "dialect" of Spanish.