Kamuiberen

This may have been in the past (to a point, as Castille was not even in command of Aragon 600 years ago). Here's a GIF showing the development of Ethnic groups and Languages in Spain from 1000 to 2000. .

Right now, Spain is completely decentralized, and culturally diverse. Catalonians are not being oppressed and their culture is not being replaced any time soon, and this is the same for the Basques or the Galicians, or basically any autonomous community in Spain.

Some have historical claims, the crown of Aragon (wich Catalonia was a part of) and Castilia (former Spain as we usually name it) were united back in 1469 and since then cultural differences always had a part on nationalistic claims.

This particular point annoys me, as it implies that Catalonia is somehow different than "Spain as a whole". I tried answering this in another post, but basically, the cultural reasons for the independence are just for show to the rest of the world, and has always been part of the more fringe pro-independentist parties.

The actual reason for the recent surge in Independentism is purely economical.

The wealthiest region in Spain is Madrid, and by PBI, it's Baleares and Euskadi. Within Catalonia, only Barcelona counts as a rich area.

Plus, Catalonia benefits from being the main focus of any infrastructure development in Spain, and it has always been on top of priorities for Spain (after all, they are rich).

The "starving" guy is openly scamming the idiots that just want an excuse to "laugh at socialism". He is obviously not poor and lives in a well off area.

He is one of the minority fascists. Not conservatives, but openly Fascist.

Also, people love to think of Venezuela as this warlike stalinist country in the middle of Africa. It's not even close to that.

Well, technically, both Galician and Portuguese come from the same medieval language, Galician-Portuguese (also called "Old Portuguese" or "Classical Galician"), back when Portugal was just a county of the Kingdom of Galicia (which had capitals in Braga and Santiago).

When the Galician crown joined with the Leon Crown, and Portugal gained it's independence, the language started drifting apart, to the point where it is now. Almost the same, with some grammatical differences. That's why in the GIF, Galician and Portuguese are shown as part of the same group.