DeeGee
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- Location
- North East Wales
Bloody English coming here to retire and filling up our cemeteries! 
Ellie Harrison
- Thread starter R J
- Start date
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Probably due tò starvation as the local shops wouldn't serve them.Bloody English coming here to retire and filling up our cemeteries!
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
So your answer to racism was to resort to bullying smaller students.
Pistonbroke
Member
Never got to that stage but there's a limit to what anyone should put up with before taking a stand. We've all heard the whining about people talking in welsh just because someone is english. It's Wales. It's their country,there speaking their language. It was France,Russia, wherever the same thing would happen
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Obviously that's true and the locals in Bangor were no doubt more anti student than anti English. But that's the point of this thread it's basically saying to claim racism is an easy action there's a lot more too it than that. Taking the pee out of someone for being Welsh or English is racist but it's ignored but when colour is involved then everyone wants the moral high ground.
SilliamWhale
Member
Fair point. I'm not sure what else makes me different. That said there's not really anything such as race really. It was kind of a victorian type grouping which all being said doesn't really define anything much.
SilliamWhale
Member
But you don't have to Celt to be welsh and you don't have to welsh to be celt. I'm sure the bloodlines got mixed very quickly
SilliamWhale
Member
I think colour is different though.
Remind me Ellie, where were those BNP (or whatever they're called now) councillors being elected backalong?
rural heartlands was it?
Oh, no, it was urban areas with multi-ethnicity
Where did (the odious) tommy Robinson and his EDL start?
Backwoods of Scotland, Cumbria or the Westcountry?
No, urban multi-ethnic Luton
There's one or two people in my wider community of an evidently different ethnicity (one or two dating from straying US GIs in the last war I believe), and beyond a bit of ignorance, I'm pretty sure there's no active racism towards them.
Mind, there's that bloke who claims to be 'The black farmer', when in fact he's actually a very disingenuous fibber. 'The black meat pie salesman' would be an honest title, but that doesn't bother him.
Our local primary skool was marked down by ofstead for NOT having mixed race pupils. honestly.
rural heartlands was it?
Oh, no, it was urban areas with multi-ethnicity
Where did (the odious) tommy Robinson and his EDL start?
Backwoods of Scotland, Cumbria or the Westcountry?
No, urban multi-ethnic Luton
There's one or two people in my wider community of an evidently different ethnicity (one or two dating from straying US GIs in the last war I believe), and beyond a bit of ignorance, I'm pretty sure there's no active racism towards them.
Mind, there's that bloke who claims to be 'The black farmer', when in fact he's actually a very disingenuous fibber. 'The black meat pie salesman' would be an honest title, but that doesn't bother him.
Our local primary skool was marked down by ofstead for NOT having mixed race pupils. honestly.
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Pistonbroke
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My grandfather was born and brought up in the hills in mid Wales and he was 89 when he met his first black person. You would think the Martians had landed when he saw him first but by the time we had a mug of tea and a chat they got on like a house on fire
And if you dont believe that some inner city areas arent just as racist then you are mistaken too, except of course its racism against whites or even other black skinned of different races too
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I think language is a noticeable characteristic of cultural difference, and as an English man in Wales, I think there is a cultural difference (but both my children consider themselves Welsh), I think there are also cultural differences between town and country, that is why the builders I used to work with all wanted "a welsh speaking farmers son" for an apprentice, I think the welsh speaking was more a way of differentiating from townie boys.
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I would say it's racist too, attacking a teacher for showing cartoons in a free speech lesson.
ah, but is that religious intolerance?
(and I'm not making light of the hideous crime)
The niceties of difference twixt race/religious overlap get difficult.
Av Gorritt
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- Location
- NE Ches / SE Lancs
I well remember the time when the only non-local person in this town was a swarthy skinned man , with one gold ear ring known locally as "MANUAL" , and the only properly coloured person was an itinerant bag man who would come along the farm lane with his tightly packed bag selling "smallwares " . He was always made welcome , my mother buying things - wanted or not - and a cup of tea and a cake supplied " You buy "ny tie , many colour" . I never saw nor heard any intolerance at all .
betweenthelines
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- Location
- southwest
Bit rich of Christians to talk about religious intolerance. What were the Crusades (aka the Holy Wars) all about?
- Location
- LINCOLNSHIRE/KENYA
Problem is Christianity has moved on Islam is still in the 7th century.
Pistonbroke
Member
er, i'm none to sure, but wouldn't it have been to retake what had been shared 'holy lands' from a totalitarian regime fuelled on .....ah, religious intolerance?
(to be clear, I'm very anti-religious, and wouldn't have one above another.)
SilliamWhale
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Heck. That was 900 years ago