Ara Balears in English - discrimination

New instance of linguistic discrimination at a takeaway restaurant in Palma: "If you don't speak to me in Spanish, I don't understand you"

ARA Balears — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:46:30 +0000

Another instance of linguistic discrimination has occurred in Mallorca, this time at a prepared food establishment in the Vileta neighborhood of Palma. According to the complainant, the incident took place on Wednesday at a place that sells rotisserie chicken and bread rolls, where the victim went to eat half a chicken.

He who changes his head scratches himself

Antoni Riera — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 06:45:29 +0000

Last week, Professor Gabriel Bibiloni, whom we who knew him when we studied Catalan Philology at the University of the Balearic Islands held in high esteem, He was the protagonist of an event which, beyond the annoyance it caused him, the shop assistant who served him and the managers of the establishment where it happened, is a reflection of the humiliating agony and scandalous contempt that we Catalan speakers must live with when we leave our tribal pebble, what is now called "the comfort zone".

Ideology and truth

Melcior Comes — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:31:13 +0000

Lately, especially in recent years with the rise of global Trumpism, it has come to seem that facts, simple facts, have become a form of ideology. We have become so confused that stating certain truths now seems like a political option, as if politics didn't have to start from truths, but could even be imposed upon them.