This chapter documents locally meaningful, patterned ways of speaking about cultural malaise through a discourse tropology featuring orthographic transcriptions and English translations of primary source discourses in Spanish and Catalan. The tropes incorporate globalizing processes that project Catalan cultural constructions of fearfulness, historical memory, and corruption into a wider European context in relation to the cultural legacies of Spain’s Civil War and Fascism. “Culture of apprehension” tropes frame social distrust differently across coteries in discourses that foster group visibility, whereas “deep-seated cultural issues with Spain” tropes index sample-wide community understandings rooted in generational entelechy. Altogether, the tropes contribute to contemporary communicative ecologies that contextualize doing being Catalan in Catalonia’s unique and complex cultural dynamic, laying groundwork for related political tropologies in Chapters 8 and 9 .