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Old 05-07-2018, 05:07 AM   #61 (permalink)
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Yes, I suspect Wales is very attractive, though rather wet. I've also heard that they don't like the English. A friend of mine spent a year there, doing industrial training as a university student. He said that in the pubs, they would speak in Welsh, but when he walked in, conversation would stop dead, then restart in English. Of course he was a glaring full-on hippy at the time which probably didn't sit well with the locals, but it's always made me think of this pub scene:-

Must of been the north, in my experience they barely speak Gaelic in the midlands or the south of wales.
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Old 05-07-2018, 07:35 AM   #62 (permalink)
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^ I didn't know that, Akai.

In Mexico they have indigenous languages as well, spoken mainly in the rural areas. Maybe that's true in Wales too; head out of town and into the hills and things are different.

And how about you? As a Midlander, were people friendly to you in Wales?
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I know a few Welsh people and honestly I reckon the hating the English thing is not as bad as is often made out, I think it's really just limited to sport, particularly Rugby. I only know one who is even a pro independence nationalist. A few are quite happy to support England in sport though most just aren't really concerned with it. In north Wales you have the most people who speak the Welsh language, signs are in Welsh, the nationalist movement is strongest, and even when I've been in the villages there I've never been treated badly.

I would say the most hostility toward English people (in this country) comes from Scottish nationalists. I'm not sure if even the Irish are as bad as them.
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Old 05-07-2018, 08:13 AM   #64 (permalink)
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I would say the most hostility toward English people (in this country) comes from Scottish nationalists. I'm not sure if even the Irish are as bad as them.
^ I like to think that some of these traditional rivalries are exaggerated. When I was at primary school about a quarter of the class were Irish, with names that even schoolchildren could identify (O'Shea, O'Dee, Murphy, O'Malley etc) but as young children will in the right circumstances, we all got on just fine. There was no kind of factional divide at all.
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^ I like to think that some of these traditional rivalries are exaggerated. When I was at primary school about a quarter of the class were Irish, with names that even schoolchildren could identify (O'Shea, O'Dee, Murphy, O'Malley etc) but as young children will in the right circumstances, we all got on just fine. There was no kind of factional divide at all.
Same mate not too different here, two or three of the areas next to mine are Irish hotspots, most families were born here but of Irish descent. It doesn't seem like a foreign country when you've grown up around it if that makes sense. Cos pretty much everyone will have a parent or grandparent who is Irish and moved here to work.
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Europe, as in the cultural region? Yes.

Europe, as in the western part of the Eurasian continent? No.
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Old 01-15-2019, 01:31 PM   #68 (permalink)
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^ Well, one is about culture and people, and the other is about the physical land - at least I imagine that's what Isbjorn is refering to.

Reposted, not so much for relevancy, but because it's a beautiful map that makes you rethink the geography of the British Isles:-

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In fact, England used to be part of Doggerland:-

Spoiler for for something of limited interest only:

That map shows Dogger Bank, right in the middle of the North Sea and still used as a point of reference today. It reminds me of how I used to hear the Shipping Forecast on the radio at night when I was a small child. Nodding off to sleep, it was a soothing litany of the cold and mysterious parts of the North Sea, with names like Dogger, Cromarty, Faeroes, Shannon, German Bight and Fastnet.

Anyway, here's a spoof, which gets the tone just right and shows just how close a weather forecast can get to pure poetry:-

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^ Well, one is about culture and people, and the other is about the physical land - at least I imagine that's what Isbjorn is refering to.
Yes, that's what I'm referring to. The British Isles are not connected to the Eurasian landmass.
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