It is an offensive way of referring to Catalan people or Catalan language. They also call us "polacos" (Poles), I suppose because we speak a language Spaniards do not understand or because we feel apart from them.
It's a very complicated matter, you can go to the wikipedia and look up Catalonia if you are more interested in this subject.
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It is an offensive way of referring to Catalan people or Catalan language. They also call us "polacos" (Poles), I suppose because we speak a language Spaniards do not understand or because we feel apart from them.
It's a very complicated matter, you can go to the wikipedia and look up Catalonia if you are more interested in this subject.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalonia
I'm Catalan myself (from Barcelona).