Anti Welsh work colleagues?

[Gavin Bl]

Someone told me once, i forget who, might even have been someone on here, that they took their new white boyfriend home to meet the black parents.

They exclaimed "He's white", she said, "he's welsh", they replied "thats okay then, we like the welsh".

bloody hell, thats what happened with my wife's mother

to be honest, growing up in place like merthyr, I saw so many english or english sounding people treated badly - that I'm loathed to say that many people are anti-welsh in any meaningful way, but you do end up being a member of a minority that it is acceptable to taunt in polite company.

 

[nino_savatte]

Tbh a lot of what you said about the Welsh v English (and it is a fair point) we could say about the rich English v poor English or even the North South divide. (Especially after Thatchers policies)

Really? The two are hardly the same. You don't seem old enough to have lived through the Thatcher years.

 

[Gromit]

You are Prince Harry?!?!?!?!?!?

How dare you! He ain't welsh and neither is his dad regardless of his title.

 

[_angel_]

Really? The two are hardly the same. You don't seem old enough to have lived through the Thatcher years.

You miss my point by a country mile. The issue is locals being displaced from their villages/ towns by rich incomers. Racialising is a red herring. Would the villagers of a welsh village unable to afford to live there anymore really be happy if it was rich Welsh people displacing them, rather than rich English ones?

Surely their gripe is an economic one at not being able to afford to stay in their villages? Just like happens in the south of England.

It's a shit situation. Racialising it plays into the hands of nationalists, that I have no time for. That's divide and rule..

 

[Gavin Bl]

You miss my point by a country mile. The issue is locals being displaced from their villages/ towns by rich incomers. Racialising is a red herring. Would the villagers of a welsh village unable to afford to live there anymore really be happy if it was rich Welsh people displacing them, rather than rich English ones?

Surely their gripe is an economic one at not being able to afford to stay in their villages? Just like happens in the south of England.

It's a shit situation. Racialising it plays into the hands of nationalists, that I have no time for. That's divide and rule..

true but there are issues like language, and the historical dominance of one over the other that make it more that just a class issue (though i agree it is in part).

 

[Poi E]

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