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On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Mikel Morris wrote:

> the Erdaldoons can have their Espanish films about Vascos
> and Vascorros.  I think that I speak for the rest of the
> Euskaldunak that what we want is not an Erdaldoon's vision
> of Pais Vasco but an authentic Euskaldun voice and vision
> of the same reality, Euskal Herria. One (wo)man's Pais Vasco
> is another's Euskal Herria (or Basque Country or Pays Basque
> or Baskenland, or Ouaskonia or Strana Baskov, etc.)
>
> Mikel Morris,
> who really wants to see real Basque cinema in real Basque and on a
> really regular basis
>

That Euskaldun vision of Euskal Herria of which you speak
is, at best, only held by 37% of Euskal Herria's populace
since the other 63% are seeing the Pais Vasco or the Pays
Basque thru Erdaldun eyes. And the monolingual speakers of
Euskera still living Baserrietan surely have a much purer
Euskaldun vision of Euskal Herria than the rest of those
37% who have been corrupted to think as erdaldunak simply
by learning erdara.  Perhaps this is why the type of purist
Basque cinema you speak of is not as regular as we would
like it to be. (I doubt that many of these elderly, monolingual
baserritarrak will become film producers.)

Perhaps the solution to all this is a new kind of real Basque
cinema in real Batua which can regularly serve to propagandize
the 37% who understand Basque with a new vision of Euskal
Herria--a neo-culture which can help fill the de-Basquified
void which has been left on account of the widespread Latin
influence in Euskal Herria over the centuries.  Once this neo-
culture and history are in place we will have a core group to work
with.  At that point an inquisitive process can begin for the
complete de-latinization of Euskal Herria. =:-)

Brett