tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824065151751257861.post4133599632215343511..comments2023-09-07T14:53:38.034+01:00Comments on ... thoughts: If it's and but's were candy and nuts ...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05037177825712467778noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824065151751257861.post-32284495786625473062013-01-25T22:18:04.695+00:002013-01-25T22:18:04.695+00:00John (and Anonymous) - sorry this is so long.
Jus...John (and Anonymous) - sorry this is so long.<br /><br />Just a little background before an unashamed Englishman joins the debate:<br /><br />My father was from New Quay (Cei Newydd if you like) he spoke Welsh as did his father. My mother (from the Valleys - Aberdare) spoke only English as most working class people did, and still do today. I have many relatives in Aberdare - none speak Welsh. Which is a shame. But they are still very, very Welsh. They deserve the same opportunities as anyone else.<br /><br />Me? I'm English - That is because that is where I live. This place is my commitment. <br /><br />Like John I regard it as preposterous that a person should be regarded as more (or less) worthy simply because they speak a minority language or have particular skin colour or whatever. This sort of discrimination is only one step from Eugenics and "racial purity" (et al and very much ad nauseum).<br /><br />Promotion of a nations culture is a good thing but when it is used as a vehicle for<br />discrimination against the majority by a minority it adopts a darker perspective.<br /><br />There is no excuse for reducing employment opportunities for anyone simply because they cannot speak a minority cultural language.<br /><br />There are other ways to promote a Welsh cultural identity other than discriminating against (and alienating) the majority Welsh population.<br /><br />I would suspect that this discrimination is the product of a Welsh speaking metropolitan elite who simply wish to promote their own position over that of the common folk. Sadly this is a problem the world over. Certainly it is here in Dorset too.<br /><br />Those who wish to promote an elitist and discriminatory system will inevitably alienate the very people they claim to represent. Simultaneously they will betray those same people by discouraging inward investment. <br /><br />Few ethical companies are going to move to a country that discriminates against most of its own population.<br /><br />After all, nobody likes bigots.<br />Regards<br />Billo<br /> BilloTheWisphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16221663524948086557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1824065151751257861.post-65515409406696378582012-12-16T20:42:05.988+00:002012-12-16T20:42:05.988+00:00It's called sustainability and respecting the ...It's called sustainability and respecting the communities many of us live in. In a world being taken over by big business, corporations and anglo american culture surely we should pride in our uniqueness, identity and culture. The trouble with your free market attitude to culture is that it merely allows the strongest to decimate everybody else-its a stuff the Welsh attitude. We need to take positive steps, in what is only a fairly small area of Wales in the end to ensure our unique identityAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com