about the independence of catalonia Hi everyone, this is my first time writing here so I will do my best. As a catalan, I want to explain a little bit what is happening here, because there are a lot of news available but of course people who are living here could describe better this complex situation. I describe myself as an "unionist", because there is no politic plan behind the words of independence, because some of the politicians that are involved in this process were also implicated in cases of corruption, and of course although this referendum was illegal there wasn't a campaing for the "No". I feel that a lot of people are voting with their hearts, even they are thinking that there is no way for this process. Nevertheless, Spain is making it worse. Instead of choosing dialogue and intelligence, they took decissions in a really strictness way, creating more independentism feeling and tension that was before. Independentism isn't something that growth from one day to another, there is a lot of history behind it that should be understood. Is not black or white, there is a big gamma of greys between. Of course you don't have to believe about all the content that media are showing, because sometimes could be biased. What it makes me feel really afraid is how fast people believe it and how easy could get manipulated. As I mentioned before, I'm an unionist, but I decided to vote during this illegal referendum. The reason was that I believe that the spanish goverment will never make this referendum legal, although there is a great part of the people that have an opinion about something. Because of that, and after watching a lot of violent charges in people that were voting in colleges close to my house, I decided to take the responsability of being involved and say my opinion about this question (and fortunately it didn't happen anything to me). After this day, I couldn't stop watching videos and of course reading opinions about that. It's surprising how people could make such comments and they still could sleep, it makes me feel hopeless with humanity. I wish someday we could have representators that could find a point that is neutral and beneficial for the great part of us, and also people that have a more open minded view of this problem, making possible the dialogue instead a silly argument. Until that, I will still following defend the rights from one part or the other.