leafar

I havent posted in a while. Its because im trying to sort my life out.


Anyway, what do people think of the idea that they should become an independent country?

I was born in Tenerife, and im not sure.


Advantages :

- It would be good because in a lot of ways its not Spain.

- It would be a nice novelty to be able to say that i come from this new country, consisting of 7 small islands in the atlantic.

- Hopefully whoevers in charge would try to reverse some of the negative aspects (ie overpopulation, too much urbanization)

- Maybe this new country would become richer


Disadvantages :

- I hate the term Canarian. It just sounds so silly. In spanish it sounds fine, though (its petty, i know)

- Some people might get strange ideas like trying to establish the Canary Islands dialect as a separate language from spanish. It is very different, but not different enough. Ive even seen people spell "que" as "ke", which makes me sick.

- The idea of a guanche identity is also really stupid. "Guanche Republic" is a term that ive come across but it doesnt make sense. There are no guanches left. The spanish (ie me) killed them all, basically wiped out their culture, and had sex with some of them, meaning that im a mixture i guess. But claiming that we're guanches is silly.

Discuss, boys and girls.