[Galaico]

As a Galician, I really can't understand the obssession of some Portuguese in claiming Galicia as a Portuguese land, and the Galicians as a "sub-group of the portuguese".

First of all, Galicia has had its own identity since the Romans unified all the NW Celtic speaking tribes under the administrative region of Gallaecia, in the province of Hispania. So, since then we've been Gallaecians (Lucenses in our case) and Hispanians/Spanish.

Therefore, the existance of Galicia is not possible without the existance of Spain. As Galicians, we should have a special bond with the Southern Galicians, our Bracarensis brothers, but that is mostly limited to History textbooks.

You speak about Spain having no ethnic unity, something quite ridiculous if you look back to our history or just check the languages we speak.

Even during the Visigothic invasion, the Hispano-Roman people could differ between those of Hispanic ethnicity and the invaders. This is probably the first sign of ethnic awareness among the Spaniards since Spain became independent after the fall of the Empire.

As Mynydd said before, the Reconquest is the fight for the reconstitution of Hispania. All Christians considered themselves Spanish with independence of the Christian kingdom were they had been born.

About the language topic, all the languages spoken in Spain (with the exception of Basque) are Ibero-Romance, and are closer to each other than for example the High German and the Low German dialects, so according to you, Germany must be a multiethnic nation aswell...

As for the Basque, it is the only Iberian language that resisted romanification, probably the original tongue of the first Paleolithic hunters and gatherers to settle in Iberia. But the Basques and the Basque language have played an important role in the made up of Spain.

It were the Basques the ones who re-colonised Old Castile after this was reconquered to the Muslims.

It was the Basques the ones who made up Castilian/Spanish with their rough Romance dialects spoken in Álava and La Rioja. That's why the Castilian/Spanish pronunciation is so different from that of the other Ibero-Romance languages (such as Portuguese, Catalan and Occitan), because the rough Spanish pronunciation is the same as the Basque one.

The loss of the initial Latin F- and substituion by the initial H- in Spanish and Occitan is not something trivial, it is the consequence of theinexistance of words in Basque language starting with F-, the Basques were not used to pronounce the initial F-.

There are hundreds of Basque loan words in the Ibero-Romace languages, and not only due to closeness, but to the fact that the Basques introduced these words when they spoke Castilian, Aragonese, etc.

About the Rhesus factor negative and the blood group, let me tell you that I'm O Rh-, and I'm not Basque. Rh- is quite high in all the Iberian peninsula, but it is higher among the Basques because the had less foreign influence, therefore they are the purest Spaniards.

As you can see, in every single way (Historic, linguistic, genetic, etc.), Spain conforms a single homogeneous ethnicity.