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?

I wrote the words from memory. they may not necessarily be the right ones.
Blodwynn!

Nos da!

God this thread is a depressing read. So one of the best things about being Welsh is that you can bitch about people in front of them in your own language? Jeez, what a proud race of people!

This thread has made me laugh.I class myself British, then Welsh but I do like the fact we have a big fuck off dragon on our flag and rugby (when we win)

It's kind of easier to explain now when you're abroad, even though my adult taught Spanish is better than my GCSE Welsh by just reverting to Gareth Bale and shrugging.

You carry on enjoying OP though! 😂😂😂

Ps I do think we should have our own bank notes - obvs filled with big fuck off dragons

Haha, the Gareth Bale shrug has replaced the Ryan Giggs shrug!

Dixie, I'm also "safe" btw.😂 High 5 !

See you in Friars ;)

Where I am people use Cymraeg to mean Welsh-speaking, and Sais to mean English-speaking. It's not an identity thing but a practical thing - it's used as a way to know which language to use wih the person you are speaking to, for example in a work setting:
-bore da / good morning (official bilingual greeting)
-cymraeg dach chi (are you Welsh-speaking?)
Then you know what language to use from then on. Here we have a bilingual society and there is no way of knowing what language customers or people on the street speak. Welsh speakers may or may not have a Welsh accent in English. So you just ask.

I'm not sure I understand the supposed superiority thing about people speaking Welsh. It's a skill, anybody can learn it. Do people feel excluded by people who have skills they don't? Baking, IT whizz kids, driving, playing chess, doing cartwheels. If you want to speak Welsh, learn it. If you don't, it's your decision, don't have hang ups about it because I can assure that nobody else does.

Lol at Abba Sock

Dad always used to tell people he was from Proper Wales too (South), didn't seem to have much love for the North!

I thought anything further south than machynlleth was England

does anyone remember watching 'Gogs', I was never sure whether to laugh or feel insulted

Why the hmm faces for the poem?

1. Because using poetic language in a prose setting can sound pompous and ridiculous.

2. Because it posits that the Welsh have personal qualities which differentiate them from others due to an accident of birth, which is (dangerous) nationalistic nonsense.

Who said bitching about people was the best thing about being Welsh? I believe I said it was a horrible thing to do.

It's definitely not about skin colour as many real Welsh are very swarthy

Do you not spot the contradiction in what you you wrote. So, the 'real' Welsh are white, so what are non-white Welsh people then?

Fake Welsh?
Pretendy Welsh?

Thia and that poem are thinly veiled nationalist/borderline racist claptrap.

I'm welsh. Happy enough about it although i wish i lived in west wales or devon/ cornwall lol. I dont get the obsession with rugby that a lot of people i know seem to have (thankfully not my husband lol)
It does make me proud when my 4 yr old son comes home from school and can speak more welsh than me, he goes to a welsh school as we think being bilingual can only be a good thing 😃

I'm proud to be Welsh
I'm getting the impression that many people don't quite understand what the word "proud" means. How can you be "proud" of something that's happened to you that you had no control over? Being proud of something you've worked hard for, yes, but "proud" that quite by chance you happened to have been born in a particular country? You can enjoy living there, love the culture/history/language etc, and you can be proud of certain Welsh people's acheivements, but proud to be a certian nationality doesn't make sense. My Mum just happened to force me out of her vagina in England. So what? I'm neither proud nor ashamed as I had absolutely no say or influence in the matter.

I'm also incredibly proud that I can speak Welsh
That makes sense. You've had to learn to speak English and Welsh. Being multilingual is an acheivement that took effort. Being born there didn't.

www.teezily.com/tbwelsh

Is this banter? I think not. Bloody hate this sort of thing.

Whataloadofoldbollocks

Well exactly. I really don't think people who say they are proud to be Welsh understand the meaning of the word proud.

You can be welsh and not white. Just like you don't have to be white to be Irish, Scottish, English, French...

Why do people imply that you can't be proud of something unless you have achieved it. Utter crap. I am proud of my pet, my family, my language, my country...

I get you.

I'm so glad I'm Scottish. I think the Scots, Irish and Welsh all feel it.

I just wish we all felt it strongly enough for the UK to be dismantled.

I'm so glad I'm Scottish. I think the Scots, Irish and Welsh all feel it.

I'm pretty sure you don't speak for everyone tbh.

There have been many points in the past where some of my family certainly haven't felt it.

Being welsh and having welsh-speaking friends and family, we always speak to each other in Welsh. There is something amusing when you overhear someone slagging us germans off and saying that they know what we're saying. Or "that german spoke good English".