1:00:02
in Bilbao in 1894,
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when Arana said: I will no longer
call myself a "fuerista",
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I'm going to call myself
a nationalist.
1:00:14
The "fueros" are sovereign laws
of the Basque Country.
1:00:18
What the abolition of the "fueros"
really meant
1:00:20
was the loss of the Basque Country's
historic rights.
1:00:23
Sabino Arana's speech was racist,
1:00:26
like almost all the political
speeches at that time.
1:00:29
They believe that the aggression
brought in by the immigrant
1:00:34
is going to "de-euskerize"
the country. It's a blasphemy.
1:00:37
The sky of Euskadi
is being polluted
1:00:40
by the arrival of people
who speak Spanish, who blaspheme.
1:00:44
Our salvation is to form
an independent state
1:00:48
because then we can solve
all our problems,
1:00:51
economic, ideological,
biological or religious.
1:00:59
From its foundation
to the present day,
1:01:03
the PNV is the political group
with most social support in Euskadi.
1:01:09
Professor of Media Studies
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Nevertheless, the so-called
democratic nationalism
1:01:18
has not revised the figure
of Sabino Arana,
1:01:21
a precedent of the darkest chapters
of the 20th century.
1:01:24
The nationalism at the turn
of the century
1:01:27
was unlike the nationalism
during the Civil War,
1:01:30
or the post-Franco period
1:01:32
or the early days of democracy,
or the nationalism today.
1:01:35
There is violence
in the original nationalism.
1:01:38
There isn't a chapter, a word,
a phrase by Sabino Arana,
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that refers to tenderness
or solidarity.
1:01:47
It's all horrific.
1:01:49
I think there is a basic crisis,
1:01:52
a need, if you want, to rework
the nationalist discourse,
1:01:58
because nationalism has experienced