Excuse me. You are not "judging out of your impressions", you are a victim of the powerful
JELtzale (PNV) cultural and political propaganda.
This is evident for me, as a spaniard with basque roots and
some historical and political education. When speaking to the victims of this powerful mechanism of deception I always have to listen the same statements, the same misconceptions.
For example, take a look at this:
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since the identity of a non-Basque Spaniard is likely to lack sympathy for Basque identity
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Spain, without its basque roots is not Spain. As simple and conclusive as it sounds. And there are only three types of spaniards: the (minimally) educated, who are completely aware of this, the resentful who try to deny this fact exactly because they are extremely hurt by the lies and terrorism of the secessionists, and a minority of ignoramus (like the
white trash) who are too nerd to know anything about their roots and don't care.
Foreigners -and even non-basque spaniards- who have been cheated by that
masters in propaganda technics who are the secessionists, tend to imagine that the "BASQUE PROBLEM" is something like Ireland trying to reach its freedom from the UK, or another heroic freedom-fight. They can't believe it when they wake up to reality. Reality of a bunch of symbols, names, flags and even a
neo-language created by a medically insane
freak and his followers, sponsored by a wealthy shipowner and politically favoured in its origins by the Spanish liberal "Crown" as a weapon against basque traditionalists. A movement which received its huge power (political, economic, cultural) thirty years ago from the same state structures they want to destroy. A movement which opresses and kills pro-Spain (pro-history, pro-
real tradition) basques and makes them to flee from the lands of their ancestors. A movement which has failed to rise the secessionist support over the 25-30% barrier despite the fact they control the schools, the culture, the economy, the political institutions, the media, the trade unions...
The reality is that most of the PNV voters are just a bunch of bourgeois frightened, well-off, who supports the PNV to maintain their privileges and simply don't care of the fate of conscious pro-truth basques.
It is not like Ireland fighting british occupation. It is like some Sligo inhabitants saying they never were an irish people.