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    <title><![CDATA[Ara Balears in English - linguistic discrimination]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA["They laughed at me for speaking Mallorcan in Mallorca"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/society/they-laughed-at-for-speaking-mallorcan-in-mallorca_1_5890889.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/95501037-6ad9-4e54-808a-a592d21f04ef_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.png" /></p><p>"The other day they laughed at me and my friends for speaking in Majorcan". This is how the testimony of Miquel Àngel Suau Morro begins, a young man who reports having suffered a situation of linguistic mockery in Majorca. According to his account, a group of teenagers began to imitate his way of speaking in an exaggerated manner and make derogatory comments when he and his friends were conversing in Majorcan.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:23:57 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The video where the young man denounces the case.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[A young man reports that a group of teenagers mocked him and his friends for speaking Majorcan and regrets the lack of respect towards the island's own language]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[Linguistic discrimination at the Miramar Polyclinic: A patient is accused of being "racist" for speaking in Catalan]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/society/linguistic-discrimination-at-the-miramar-polyclinic-patient-is-accused-of-being-racist-for-speaking-in-catalan_1_5865365.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/e678e6de-be58-46a8-aed5-d8e42986276d_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>New case of linguistic discrimination at a hospital center in the Balearic Islands. On this occasion, the Policlínica Miramar has been the scene of a new episode of violation of patients' linguistic rights, accompanied, even, by threats.</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:03:45 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[MIRAMAR WILL CAPITALIZE ON THE CARE OF PUBLIC HEALTHCARE PATIENTS
The Health Service has opted to refer patients to private healthcare in order to be able to lower the figures of patients on the waiting list by offering them the possibility of choosing between continuing on the list or going to the private one. It has chosen the Polyclinic for the economic offer, below the tender price.]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The doctor threatened the patient, who left for home without being attended to]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA["After 25 years of giving blood, they denied me attention in Catalan"]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/society/after-25-years-of-giving-blood-they-denied-attention-in-catalan_1_5761808.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/06635c49-4f84-4efc-adcb-47c126f0fee4_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p>The Acció Cassandra association has filed a criminal complaint before the courts of Palma against the Balearic Islands Blood and Tissue Bank Foundation for an alleged case of linguistic discrimination that occurred in February in Palma. According to the entity, a 65-year-old man who had been a donor for more than 25 years had to leave without completing the donation because the on-call doctor refused to attend to him in Catalan and demanded that he speak in Spanish. </p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Aina Vidal]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:54:40 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[Hiper Centro promotes blood donation]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[Acció Cassandra denounces the Blood Bank for an alleged case of linguistic discrimination and requests that it be investigated as a possible hate crime]]></subtitle>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Menorcan bakery's response to a Catalanophobic customer: "We don't want your money or people with your values."]]></title>
      <link><![CDATA[https://en.arabalears.cat/society/the-response-to-catalanophobic-client-we-don-t-want-your-money-or-people-with-your-values_1_5543468.html]]></link>
      <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="https://static1.ara.cat/clip/d2f1859c-40ae-4837-af15-9fce3596fe85_16-9-aspect-ratio_default_0.jpg" /></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPjtnQejaaG/?igsh=MWEwYWFhdDFsbGxqMQ%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Can Pons</a>, an artisan pastry shop in Menorca, has gone viral on social media in recent days due to the Catalanophobic response they received from a user who told them they had always followed them, but "was unsubscribing because you don't speak Spanish, our national language. Good luck, but not with my money." The establishment's response was immediate and both direct and forceful: "We don't want your money or customers with your way of understanding life. Loving one language doesn't mean despising another."</p>]]></description>
      <dc:creator><![CDATA[ARA Balears]]></dc:creator>
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      <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:20:10 +0000]]></pubDate>
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      <media:title><![CDATA[The response video from the Can Pons bakery in Menorca]]></media:title>
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      <subtitle><![CDATA[The Can Pons bakery in Menorca also reproaches him for saying that "loving one language does not mean despising another."]]></subtitle>
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