@cefinroberts@give_me_caffine Even though the British were instrumental in abolishing slavery? If you go back far enough there are hosts of people that have been wronged by other countries. It’s not feasible in my eyes. Maybe it is more sensible and appropriate to just learn from the mistakes of the past.?
@Janemo0m@give_me_caffine They drowned Tryweryn, they ignore Wales. Just watched Question Time and after last week's historic change in Wales - they didn't mention Wales or Scotland once. They just don't want to know. And your question on slavery - the answer is 'yes'.
@cefinroberts@give_me_caffine I’m not disputing that it was wrong. However, I don’t think it’s rational to blame the English of today. Do you also agree that we should pay reparations for slavery?
@Janemo0m@give_me_caffine Find a chip, Jane,preferably a heavy one. Wear it round your neck for a day and imagine how it felt to live in Wales more than a hundred years ago, punished for speaking your mother tongue. This shame made a huge damage to our language and heritage. The English ARE to blame.
Yes, I did, because that is a red line for me.
Didnt need her to learn Welsh, didnt need her to love it, but to talk about it in that way was unacceptable for me and made me realise our views were incompatible.
Ive dated a native american woman, and I would never have spoken to her about her culture and language etc as if it didnt matter, and if I had Id have expected to be broken up with.
@MorgannWXM@Martial_Glory@Baconsarni1 Or inside Wales for that matter. Only approx 18% of the population speak it. Yet Plaid want more immigration which will dilute it even further. You couldn’t make it up!
English Nationalists will find this insane of me to say, but Welsh Nationalists will understand.
I would rather (and its not even close) be told "In the future, Wales will be mostly mixed race, mixed religion but more Welsh speaking than it is now"
Than
"Wales will be almost entirely white, entirely Christian/secular, but sadly the Welsh language will go extinct".
The second one, is unthinkable to me.
If someone gave me the option of DYING but my language grows, I would take it.
And that is not an extreme position to most Welsh Nationalists.
You can like English people, I love some of them given my grandfathers family are all Brummies, Ive also fallen IN love with English women.
But ultimately Ive also broken up with a partner because they called Welsh a 'dying language that only matters in Wales and that she wouldn't want her children to learn it...and that was a red line for me.
@Martial_Glory@Baconsarni1 I didn’t say I was Patriotic, I just said I’m Welsh by birth and ancestry. And guess what, I quite like English people as well! Perish the thought 🤣
I’m v glad to hear the breaking news on the BBC News channel that the Prime Minister is not going anywhere and that if people want a different PM they should use the process of the Labour Party.
He won the election, he has the mandate, he’s a good leader & he should stay PM.