!barcelona@lemm.ee
Hello everyone,
I've been working on this community for a while now, so it's time to promote it.
I will post regularly there news about the city, and Catalunya in general. Language-wise, I'll post mostly in Catalan (I'm learning it, so it's a good way to practice it), English and Spanish are allowed too.
On that topic, if you have specific languages selected in your profile settings, you might not need the posts tagged with "Catalan"
I'll try to reach out to the eponym subreddit to see if they would be open to promote it there too. Not too hopeful, but you never know
And while I'm here, there is also !esp@lemm.ee for Spanish content
There was a recent call in Barcelona to take down the Columbus statue, at least as early as 2016 (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/27/call-to-topple-christopher-columbus-statue-from-its-barcelona-perch)
I live in Barcelona, and Colombus and colonization is definitely not a popular topic: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/12/spain-leftist-columbus-day-celebrations
On the other hand, Spain can still be quite racist, football players being a good example (https://www.ft.com/content/6801c79a-6325-4a2a-9d5d-1d99b37920ab, https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240610-fans-get-8-months-jail-for-racism-targeting-real-madrid-s-vinicius)