:07:00
takes in everything that is
a basic element of identity.
:07:05
The Basque Country is
their homeland and their nation.
:07:08
My little place in the world,
:07:11
that's what Euskal Herria
is for me.
:07:13
It's the name the world takes on
in this place,
:07:17
the place where I live.
:07:20
I live in the French State,
:07:23
that's my citizenship.
:07:26
But my nationality is Basque.
:07:28
50% of Basques
feel that they are Basque,
:07:32
but their national
patriotic identity is Spain.
:07:37
That's where a large part
of the conflict lies,
:07:40
in how each person defines
the Basque identity.
:07:43
In this country,
:07:44
we tend to make
collective formulations
:07:48
in which the individual
disappears.
:07:51
They want this group identity
to be uniform.
:07:55
ACuban friend of mine says that
we are the last natives in Europe.
:07:59
Some think that feeling Basque
is their fundamental identity
:08:04
and that can actually
unhinge their personality,
:08:07
and thus generate hatred
and violence.
:08:14
Journalist and writer
threatened by ETA
:08:18
We have feelings too.
:08:22
We're not nationalists, but
we have feelings of social justice.
:08:25
People move us
:08:27
more than landscape
and language and the earth.
:08:30
The day when,
in Lekeitio or Zubieta,
:08:32
people eat hamburgers
and listen to American rock
:08:36
and wear American clothes,
:08:38
and give up their language
to speak English,
:08:40
and, instead of looking
at the mountains,
:08:42
are using the Internet,
:08:44
for us, that world will be so boring
it won't be worth living.
:08:48
Our daughter is going to marry
a South African,
:08:51
our cousin will be oriental,
:08:54
our children's children
will be a mixture of whatever.
:08:59
Maybe that will teach us a lot
and we'll break down barriers.