David Miró interviewed Ignacio Garriga (the Vox member who lives in Sant Cugat) regarding the words of the Archbishop of Tarragona, who lamented that "a xenophobe cannot be a good Christian." At one point in the conversation, the man said this: "I want, in a few years, my children to continue to be able to enjoy traditional festivals, the sardanas, and for them not to be replaced by the Feast of the Sacrifice of the Lamb or Ramadan. This isn't a speech against anyone, it's a speech defending our identity."
Let's see, let's focus. Garriga wants his children to continue enjoying traditional festivals, the sardanas. If he says "continue," does that mean they're already doing so? How has he achieved this? With what methods? I'm very interested, because my beloved daughter, like all her classmates, would have preferred to go quarrying in Siberia than to do a dance in which the musicians play unplugged instruments and which requires counting to execute. It's not the sardana's fault. They would have found the jota even worse, not to mention the waltz. All traditional Catalan festivals are a bore, as they should be, except for one: the tió, which is unbeatable (because it contains gratuitous violence and scatology).
Garriga, then, who has exceptional children, doesn't want these festivals of ours to be replaced by "the festival of the sacrifice of the lamb or Ramadan." Of course, it wouldn't be nice if they played the copla in the Plaza de San Kevin in Vallfosca and, there on the stage, started slaughtering lambs facing Dubai. But if this were to happen, the lamb festival that would have put an end to the sardanas would soon be replaced by Oktoberfest on the same stage. And as for Ramadan, we wouldn't even notice if one day it replaced the beloved sardanas, accustomed as we are to the fact that all the models are now doing "intermittent fasting," which is a bit like the same thing.
