To thoroughly enjoy being Welsh

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....it's my first language but am baffled by tourists asking if we have our own currency do people not do their research before visiting a country?

It's a Welsh thing. To quote Catatonia "Every day when I wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh."

It's tongue in cheek not really.

Don't get it.

How come Wales don't have their own currency? Both Scotland and NI do (obviously I'm aware they're still sterling and presumably legal currency throughout the UK)

Can't imagine the responses had you started a thread about being proud to be English.

I'm Welsh. I'm Welsh because it just so happened that my parents shagged here and that's where I popped out. Am I proud? No. I didn't choose where I was born.

Am I happy? Yes. I love Wales, it's a beautiful, musical, poetic place with a fantastic history and a fascinating past. How someone can have a poor opinion of Cardiff is beyond me, as it's a wonderful, multicultural, colourful city but then I dislike places like Birmingham and Manchester so each to their own.

Plenty of Welsh nationalists here, gets worse the further west you go. They hate the Saes.

Don't be too hard on people I guess people assume because Scotland have their own currency that Wales might do to!! I'm half Welsh and yeah... there is a bit of a sense of Pride because the people of Wales are genuinely quite patriotic but more importantly not in a boastful way! They just enjoy it

Some charmers on here today.It's certainly not about skin colour or Nationalism.It's about folk being ignorant when visiting other countries.Surely British people know that we don't have our own currency here in Wales and yes..I'm proud to be Welsh.Doesn't mean to say I hate the English.Some very sweeping statements in some of the above comments.

Please excuse the typos,my eyesight is not so good

Love being Welsh too

I love being Welsh too op. I've lived in England for many years now but I really want to move back home one day.

I actually think it's a bit sad that the English wouldn't say they love being English. Surely the French love being French and the Italians love being Italian. The English have allowed their history and the far right to make them a bit ashamed of their country. They should hold their heads up a bit more.

Every now and then on MN there are threads about 'omg i just found out that xyz i can't believe it and i'm 35' type threads.

Some don't know pineapples grow from the grown up.
Some think the Channel Tunnel is a glass tube so you can 'see the fishes'.
Some don't know the UK has a desert.
Some think Lichtenstein is a made up place.
Some think Wales has a different currency.

See a pattern?

And i don't get the 'i'm proud to be Welsh' thing at all. Or proud to be American. Or Spanish. Or Philipino. It kinda smacks of 'thank fuck i'm X not Y'.

I'm 1/4 Irish. I was raised in northern Scotland and the Midlands and SE England. I have no accent but flat southern vowels. Therefore apparently i'm a southern softy posho who can't hold her beer.

I have an acquaintance who is Irish-Scottish-Welsh born and raised in Manchester. She is adament she isn't English and appalled if anyone thinks she is. Obviously being English is just the worst!

Being English is ok. I have taught its language for 20 years so it's certainly been handy to have been born there. That's about it. I have also lived away 20 years and couldn't imagine ever moving back, although I like visiting it. For the steam trains and the dessert and Canterbury Cathedral

Ffs adamant and desert

I'm sewing and typing!

See a pattern?

That unless you know literally everything in the world, there are always going to be things you find out, no matter what your age is?

Agree with the first answer to the OP. It's very odd to enjoy being something you are by birth.

I don't understand this proud to be this and proud to be that crap, (proud to be British, proud to be a certain race' etc.') It smacks of a slight air of superiority imo.

I'm Welsh. I don't "enjoy" it but I don't "not enjoy" it either. It's irrelevant.

I am proud to be Welsh though.

Beebee7
Do you take that view with gay pride? Black pride?
Why does it annoy you that people are proud of who they are? - or is it just certain groups who annoy you? - like Welsh people being proud they're Welsh?

Never underestimate how little people know or care to find out. I've been asked more times than I can count what it's like living in Scotland. I live in Newcastle

@VladimirsPoutine

Can't imagine the responses had you started a thread about being proud to be English.

This ^

The English are the only people in the world who are not allowed to be proud of who we are, or fly our flag etc, because if we do this, we are seen as nationalistic and racist.

In the UK, the Scottish and Welsh and Northern Irish can fly their flag to their heart's content, but God forbid we English do it.

Fucks me right off.

@surferjet

Sorry, not biting........... Go bug someone else with your baiting.

What's to enjoy? Looking at your birth certificate? Giving other Welsh people 'the nod'?

I'm not saying don't be a happy kind of person, but that's entirely up to you, not your nationality.

Meh, DH is English, we live in England. He puts the England flags up when England are playing. Of course you are "allowed" to be proud of being English without it implying you are racist or far right.

I was watching a programme about Orkney last night and cruise ship staff talking about the people who disembark there. One lady wanted to go to Edinburgh while she was there and was baffled that she would have to get a flight, another couple thought they were in Dublin! So it seems a lot of people don't do any research or even look at a map to see where they are

Hang on, do you Welsh people have a special handshake?

No elQuinto. We do have a secret language though

"I love being Welsh too! I think it's definitely a Welsh thing"

Yes. Definitely. Only the Welsh love being Welsh.