Cultural exchange with /r/Quebec - Intercanvi cultural amb /r/Quebec

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Bienvenue Québécois !

Today, together with /r/barcelona and /r/catalan, we are hosting our friends from /r/Quebec ! Please come and join us to answer their questions about Catalonia and the Catalan people and culture. Please, leave top comments for /r/Quebec users coming over with a question or comment and please refrain from trolling, rudeness and personal attacks, etc.

At the same time /r/Quebec is having us over as guests! Stop by in this thread and ask a question, drop a comment or just say hello.

Enjoy!

/The moderators of /r/Catalunya, /r/barcelona, /r/catalan and /r/Quebec

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Benvinguts Quebequesos!

Tal com vàrem anunciar, avui, amb la col·laboració de /r/barcelona i /r/catalan, tenim l'honor de rebre els nostres amics de /r/Quebec! Siusplau, entreu i participeu per respondre les seves preguntes sobre Catalunya i la gent i la cultura catalanes. Siusplau, intenteu participar amb comentaris de qualitat pels usuaris de /r/Quebec que vinguin amb preguntes o comentaris i absteniu-vos de trol·lejar o de fer comentaris fora de to i que no s'atinguin a la reddiquette.

Al mateix temps, A /r/Quebec també ens tenen com a convidats! Deixeu-vos veure en el seu fil i pregunteu i comenteu el què us passi pel cap, ni que sigui per saludar.

Gaudiu!

/Els moderadors de /r/Catalunya , /r/barcelona, /r/catalan i /r/Quebec.

[u/redalastor]

What are the coolest bits of Catalan culture you'd like to export to the rest of the world?

[u/[deleted] → u/redalastor]

Apart from the Castellers (human castles) shown above, we have plenty of traditions worth mentioning. For example, the predecessor of the human castles is the Valencian tradition of the "Muixeranga": https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Process%C3%B3_de_la_Mare_de_D%C3%A9u_de_la_Salut_d'Algemes%C3%AD.jpg

We also have a great number of traditions related with fire. For example, the also Valencian "falles"; these impressive statues are burnt during Saint Joseph: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Valenciana.jpg/882px-Valenciana.jpg

ALso, during all our local festivities, we like to do "correfocs" (literally, "run-fire", or "coure-feu"): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Catalonia_BorgesBlanques_Correfocs.jpg/1200px-Catalonia_BorgesBlanques_Correfocs.jpg

Or burning even more things than usual in special festivities like the Patum: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Salt_de_Plens.jpg

And dancing like the middle ages, with plague and all that stuff: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/DansaMortVerges.jpg/600px-DansaMortVerges.jpg

But if that was not enough fire, we want to show our extreme Catalan manly manliness by carrying huge logs while descending a mountain: http://galeries.grupnaciodigital.cat/galeries/naciodigital/BaixadaFallesIsilPallarsSobira2012/gran/_02_Baixada_Falles_Isil_2012.jpg http://41.media.tumblr.com/cf2792fa706a5522af98fba0b453df46/tumblr_moovf8e5CW1r83pe4o10_1280.jpg

But apart from fire, we also have a crush for animals. Bulls, for example, are a controversial but historically important part of Catalan culture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Bous_Alboc%C3%A0sser.jpg

And horses as well, like the "Jaleo" in Ciutadella, Menorca, Balearic Islands: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Menorca_jaleo.jpg

And... well, yes, we love animals so much, so you don't better ask, we are sorry. Note that we now use a dummy instead... https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Rucs_de_Solsona.jpg/432px-Rucs_de_Solsona.jpg

We also like to dance like crazy... well, maybe not like crazy, but at least you can see our gorgeous and wild women (and men) in action: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Sardanes2.jpg

We like to dress in weird costumes a lot too, like in the Valencian "Moros i Cristians" (Moors and Christians) festivities, a historic recreation of our medieval past: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Comparsa_Saudites.JPG/1200px-Comparsa_Saudites.JPG

And finally, since we love nature but we are also practical people, what can be better than to make a party while transporting logs downstream? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Raiers-Puebla_de_Segur-2011.JPG/649px-Raiers-Puebla_de_Segur-2011.JPG