They sound all wonderful, like sun shines
out their butts. Save the world. feed the
poor. Wright the wrongs.
Until you talk about the unfortunate Welsh.
Then they pull out all the stops. It really requires
psychological analysis. They hate the Welsh.
I think the Welsh are awesome folks. Perhaps
there's something in that. The English are
jealous of people who aren't sick and bitter,
like them.
Anyway, the Daily Mail is racist at the best of
times.
They can easily find a self-hating Welshman,
probably easier than a "self-hating" Jw who
just wants peace and justice.
Anyway, I digress.
Also, you'll see how Welsh education is
portrayed as backward, even by the Welsh.
That's what centuries of English teachers
kicking the shit out of the Welsh-speaking
students will do. Self hate. self blaming.
BTW Welsh-medium schools are full to bursting
checkitout: Daily
mail
Tyranny
of the Welsh Taliban: Children told they
can't go to the loo if they ask in English. Architects shunned if their
plans aren't in Welsh. ROGER LEWIS on the nutty Welsh Language Society
By
Roger Lewis
PUBLISHED:
02:02, 26 November 2012 | UPDATED: 02:02, 26 November 2012
Half
a century ago, I was born in Caerphilly Miners' Hospital and raised across the
sludge of the Rhymney River in Bedwas, Monmouthshire, where my family owned the
village butcher's shop, which had been in operation since 1868 but has since
closed.
I
was a Mixed Infant at primary school locally, and the Eleven Plus having been
abolished, I was then a pupil at the comprehensive in Bassaleg, near Newport.
I am
therefore Welsh - and very proudly
Welsh. But I've never spoken the Welsh language, except for the odd
untranslatable word like 'cwtch', which means 'cuddle', 'cosy', 'safe' or
'hidden', and 'mochyn', which though it means 'pig' is nevertheless always
affectionately meant, when you are called it, like 'rascal' or scallywag'. I
also know that 'Popty-Ping' is the word for microwave.
Welsh
and English according to law should be treated equally
In
South Wales, where I am from, there was
never any tradition of Welsh speaking. And at the turn of the last century,
though my
great-grandparents spoke Welsh to each other, they deliberately didn't impart
the Welsh to their 11 children, because they wanted them to be able to
get on in life. [INDIRECT SELF-INFLICTED RACISM]
Rightly
or wrongly, English was seen as the language of the future, Welsh as the sign of regional backwardness.
... Where
else can they go but Wales? Patagonia? They are ill-equipped for anywhere else
the other side of the Severn Bridge.
Even Bristol will be abroad. How can you teach
French in Welsh to children who think in English? It creates a maze of
confusion.
I
have been told that English-sounding announcers on Radio Wales have been
purged; that the Welsh Arts Council turned their back on the great artist Sir
Kyffin Williams because he had a posh accent and a moustache; and that Sir
Anthony Hopkins and comedian Rob Brydon would never land an acting role on BBC
Wales in 2012 because they don't speak
the old lingo.
... I
asked a former colleague of mine at Oxford,
whose speciality was changing speech habits in the United Kingdom from 1800 to
1914.
He explained that an analysis
of the late 19th-century census data revealed that Welsh-speaking was in steep
decline and that, left to its own devices, the language would have 'died of
inanition because Welsh people themselves were casting it off as a mark of
backwardness'.
... Correct
me if I'm wrong, but as of yet there isn't a Welsh Shakespeare.
However,
Welsh has survived - initially because of a political deal done in Whitehall when the Liberal Government in
1907 created a Welsh Department of the
Board of Education, which 'captured state resources' i.e. taxpayers' loot,
and allowed Welsh to be taught in the schools and artificially revived.
