Basque Country Autonomous Flag. Just like Catalonia.
Catalonia is a Spanish region, not a country
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AlexConde wrote:
Somebody pushed his agenda to have chess.com list Catalonia as a country with its own flag, while it's actually not. It's called lobbying. What about Texas? Crimea? Palestine? Can Paris be listed as a country? What is the application process for this? Can my bedroom be my own country?
a person can make a case for autonomous regions. as far as ur bedroom ? they say ppl hafta wanna go there cuzzits desirable.
GMproposedsolutions wrote:
Sounds like a case of discrimination.
thats kinda stretching it.
An autonomic flag is not a country flag.
I'm ordering to design one at Fiverr for my bedroom
I agree with GM. It is discrimination, which is a good thing. Discrimination is what keeps us from making really bad decisions.
GMproposedsolutions wrote:
Have we found out why Catalonia is listed as a country for this site?
Because it has options for other subnational units like Quebec, Greenland, and the USVI
congrandolor wrote:
Catalonia is in Spain. Scotland is in the UK. Period.
The UK is a union of 4 semi-autonomous countries.
Dec 9, 2019
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dax00 wrote:
congrandolor wrote:
Catalonia is in Spain. Scotland is in the UK. Period.
The UK is a union of 4 semi-autonomous countries.
Three of which are subordinate.
The people that get bent out of shape about flags being valid are pretty funny. Flags are arbitrary here, and self chosen. What is the point of enforcing valid countries when the site doesn't enforce validation of the user accounts who choose them?
The flag you choose is utterly meaningless here. The flag your opponent has is equally meaningless. Do you go to security and ask to kick out a soccer fan who wears a Milan jersey to a game if they cannot produce an Italian passport? No? Then relax.
Lord knows how incensed some people would get if they allowed Gondor as a flag choice 
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Scotland voted to keep under England control. Now, as the Brexit comes, they want to separate from Britain. That is a shame, people voting only thinking of $$$. Where is patriotism? William Wallace would be ashamed of his people.
I say that national self-determination is clearly the direction that history is currently flowing, with the existing State in each case of a threatened or attempted succession by a region strenuously attempting to claw back the allegiance (voluntary or enforced) of the rebels to the "parent" Nation. And, yes, Palestine is a nation-state, i.e., a country, with territory, a governing apparatus and a population of self-identified Palestinians.
hi
I'm not giving my opinion on this matter. I'm just sharing what the current constitution says about the state of autonomies.
As a way of wasting my time on an abstraction, chess satisfies all my necessities.
GMproposedsolutions wrote:
lfPatriotGames wrote:
I agree with GM. It is discrimination, which is a good thing. Discrimination is what keeps us from making really bad decisions.
There is a country whose culture constantly reinforces the concept of not judging. I ask then, do you not judge the difference between two flavors of ice cream? Do you not judge on which person to be your lover? If truly not judging, then take me as your lover and ask no questions.
so its YOU here who's being indisciminate ! has it ever occured 2u that maybe YOU wont like the one who likes you ?
as for ice cream. do you like broccoli ? (yes) do you like ice cream ? (dumb question)....do u llike broccolli ice cream ?
Dec 10, 2019
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EJ86 wrote:
Pulpofeira escribió:
There are some so called historical regions in Spain, which have a strong sense of identity, their own language, and a long history having his own way before the country merged as a whole at the end of the Middle Ages. Catalonia is one of them.
It is not. You can't understand the history of catalonia without Spain. So don't make me laugh telling me Catalonia or Vasque country are historial, when the truth is that the historical regions are Aragon and Navarra (also Leon, Castille, Granada but i'll focus just in Catalonia and Vasque country).
Funny thing is that through history Catalonia was given everything instead of helping other regions of Spain and now that is their turn to return that help don't want to, people from outside should to know that while Catalonia has first class trains, Extremadura (other region) has nothing (well it have a train that it's almost pull by cows).
Pulpofeira is right. Cataluña is a historical region - it is not, has never been, and is pretty unlikely to ever be, a country like, say, Scotland. But it does have it's own history, different from Navarrese or Leonese history - not even thinking about Andalusia...
That being said, it is also true what EJ86 says, you can't understand Catalan history without looking at Spanish (or better said, Iberian) history.
TheBlueBishop wrote:
I say that national self-determination is clearly the direction that history is currently flowing, with the existing State in each case of a threatened or attempted succession by a region strenuously attempting to claw back the allegiance (voluntary or enforced) of the rebels to the "parent" Nation. And, yes, Palestine is a nation-state, i.e., a country, with territory, a governing apparatus and a population of self-identified Palestinians.
its not gonna help. sad.
Dec 10, 2019
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#98
Mr_DoitRight wrote:
I believe in an Independent Catalonia inside Spain
Within Spain, Cataluña already is virtually independent. They have their own parlament, their own budget, their own police, etc.
Dec 10, 2019
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#99
ghost_of_pushwood wrote:
Ziryab wrote:
Blame Jose Andres
First I'll have to look him up!
https://twitter.com/chefjoseandres
Blame Jose Andres