The theater scene, which is mocking the use of the Catalan and its requirements in Catalonia during an event organized by the city council of Barcelona, issued a contradiction. The show, which is responsible for Teatro without Capeles Collective, was carried out during the representation of the Barcelona 2024 discrimination observatory and caused a refusal between some games and organizations precisely because it puts Catalan as a reason for discrimination against migrant groups.
During the stage only a few minutes, and this is part of the few Sketches As part of the work These Latin American He gets acquainted with a woman of Latin American origin, which a doctor or employees of foreigners’ offices refuse to attend Spanish and demand from him to speak Catalonian. The same is with the employer who claims to have a native Catalan level, despite the fact that he took C2.
All this caused a commotion so that it was committed during the official act of the consistory, which apologized for what happened. This Friday, the mayor’s lieutenant appeared, responsible for the human rights, Maria Yugony, appeared on this Friday to make sure that they accept the “mistake” for the fact that they did not control the content of this performance. “We do not communicate with spilled manifestations at all,” he said, before insisting on “apologies” again.
The first complaint received by the platform in accordance with La Flengua, an organization that is part of the table of the organization of the city council of Barcelona, which is involved in the preparation of the report, and, therefore, was in its presentation on Tuesday. In their statement, they asked the city council to eliminate what they considered “mockery, with supposedly humorous sketches of the linguistic rights of Catalan media.”
After this statement, such as Junts, Communis, ERC or CUP also showed their deviation from the intervention. One of the most outstanding reactions was also the reaction of the linguistic policy of the General Service Francesca Xavier Vila. “Sketch approaches greatly distort reality and are insulting and deeply unfair to linguistic specialists and volunteers who seek to facilitate the study of the language for beginners,” he said, and appreciated that the municipalities will be without identification marks.
This is the case when the report of the observatory on discrimination against Barcelona 2024 collected linguistic discrimination for the fact that they did not respect the rights of the Catalan speakers. In total, 192 incidents, which mainly included the refusal of business, commercial or public administration, to serve customers or users in Catalan.
