basques

The Basques there have been practicing their own traditions and using their own language since the fascist dictatorship fell.

Catalan separatism was never violent and the Basques concluded peace with Madrid, which holds.

Would the Basques feel that they would be treated better as First Nations people in Canada than they are today in Spain?

Now that doesn’t mean that the Basques don’t have a potentially outsized Neanderthal genetic influence, but the odds of their language being so ancient as to pre-exist modern humans entirely is unlikely.

Spain still uses the Roman Law and save for the Basques (which are the cousins of Iberians) the 95% of the culture it's Western.

The entire notion of ethnic identity is based on a shared history, and there's no shared history between Bosniaks and Basques that would meaningfully exclude any non-whites.

The Basques and Catalans would have a viable case for independence if they could be EU members and most Western nations are founded on the principle of self-determination.

That's by a guy whose ancestors came from Friesland, arguably the most nationalistic of all of NL, but along the lines of how Catalans or Basques see their position in Spain.

They also don't speak much Spanish there, as the Basques have their own ancient unique language (a non-Indo-European isolate actually) and culture due to their mountain isolation and resistance to everyone, even the Romans.

It is not as bad as Northern Ireland or Basques but citizen of Baltic state can refuse to speak Russian in some situations while many older people can speak Russian without problems (younger generation does not speak Russian, e.g.

Just looking at Western Europe, there is Basques in Spain, Bretons in France, Welsh/Scottish in the UK, Frisians in Netherlands, Lombards in Italy, Walloons in Belgium etc etc.

I lived in Pamplona for a year, and I noticed a lot more cultural difference between the local Basques, the French Basques across the border, the Spaniards to the South and the Catalans to the East than I ever saw between LA, NYC and Nebraska.

If you're going to argue that Northern Basque communities near Southern Basques communities is diversity, then a "little Korea" next to "little Manila", each with more people, qualifies.

The Basques are not "Spanish." Kurds are not "Turkish" or "Iraqi" or "Arab." Israel is probably the country that takes the nation state idea most literally.

Castillan language and identity were forced upon Catalans, Galicians an Basques, that hold grudges for that even now.

Lots of groups currently live as part of a larger country - Basques, Catalonians, Kurds, Tibetans etc.

Basques with even less population (and less L1 and L2 speakers, even in % than Catalans) are also among the wealthiest.