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Q: How does Adele like her eggs in the morning?
A: In cake.
This Red Cross article puts it at 10%, too.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Patriotism never has meant anything to me. Be proud of yourself, not a football team or the piece of Earth you happened to be born on.
- the one you are born in
- the one on the front of your current passport, or your other one
- the one your birth parents “were” (however you determine that? )
- the one your adopted parents “were”
- the one your sperm donor and surrogate mother “were”
- what your genetics say you came from
- who you pay your taxes to
- where you currently live
- where your second home is
- the one you are trying to emigrate to
- the one you are just leaving
- the one that will let you play sport for their national team
- what you feel like being today
and any country desperate enough to let me play for their national team is so hard up I'd not want to live there
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Also chips are "Plant-based" no matter how you cook them.
I’ve been on this forum for a couple of years and have avoided discussions on politics and nationalism, as I see it as a nice escape from reality; but I now feel like saying something. I am from Wales. My first language is Welsh, as was my parents, grandparents, my wife, children, many friends and the majority of residents where I live. My views are totally shaped by inheriting this ancient language and heritage, which I love deeply.
My feelings of patriotism for Wales are influenced by the threat and real possibilty that my culture could dissapear in a generation or two under the tide of British nationslism and anglicisation, be it deliberate or not. I want to stand up and defend my language and culture against this. If it dies in Wales, it’s gone forever. This leads me to having no warm affinity to Britain, or the United Kingdom if Great Britain and Northern Ireland as it’s correctly called, as a state. It’s not personal as I have good English friends. I feel no warmth to GB; I am Welsh. It’s a distinct nation, as is French, Croat or Greek. Perhaps being from a small nation makes is easier to be patriotic without feelings if guilt. I have been reluctant to mention this on the fretboard till now as us welsh speakers are long used to being attacked and put down for speaking our language [gulp]
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
On Tipton Pond...
[ also swift edit, no one noticed]
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Yn wir. Doethineb'd
From just across the border.
My Welsh relatives are proud to be Welsh but don't speak the language.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Welsh was compulsory in school, all our assemblies were in Welsh but I'm not (or no longer) a Welsh speaker. To me as a teenager the Welsh language was deeply uncool, it was backwards-looking and it was a waste of time and brain power when I could be learning the languages of people with whom I can't communicate in English.
I missed the boat by a couple of years, I left school a few years before S4C started, and decades before being a Welsh speaker could help you get a job.
Every Welsh person knows the history of how successive governments tried to wipe out the language, and that despite that history, non-Welsh speaking Welsh are treated as if it's their own fault the language was forcibly beaten out of their ancestors. But that's no longer the case, if it dies it will be through natural atrophy.
In a way, the language has held Wales back on the world stage. Everyone knows what being Scottish is, they're excellent at simply Being Scottish around the world and promoting their national brand, but in Wales our resources are spent on something exclusive and parochial which is of little interest to a huge majority of people who were born here, let alone anywhere else.
It's sad, but Wales will always be divided by its language. For those who are still steeped in it at home, while shopping or socialising it will be part of their identity and they cannot (and shouldn't have to) imagine life without it, but a majority in Wales simply don't care, or are even hostile to it due to being made to feel like second-class citizens through no fault of their own.