DeeGee
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Bloody English coming here to retire and filling up our cemeteries!
Probably due tò starvation as the local shops wouldn't serve them.Bloody English coming here to retire and filling up our cemeteries!
So your answer to racism was to resort to bullying smaller students.I was the only Welsh man in Newton Rigg college for a year. Don't tell me it's a one way street! Six ft three and fourteen stone amongst some weedy sh!ts ,I "educated" a few along the way.
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 happenSo your answer to racism was to resort to bullying smaller students.
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.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
It depends on what you define as being Welsh. For me, I would say that differing only in language would not make a separate race.
I am not a Celt,
I thought the Welsh were a Celtic race whereas I am of Norman decent therefore we are of different races although of similar colour. Therefore any abuse could be construed as racist.
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.
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 tooIf you genuinely don’t think the countryside suffers from racism then you don’t live in any countryside I visit! It’s 100%better than 20 years ago but it’s still very present I’m afraid.
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.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.
I would say it's racist too, attacking a teacher for showing cartoons in a free speech lesson.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
ah, but is that religious intolerance?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.
Problem is Christianity has moved on Islam is still in the 7th century.Bit rich of Christians to talk about religious intolerance. What were the Crusades (aka the Holy Wars) all about?
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?Bit rich of Christians to talk about religious intolerance. What were the Crusades (aka the Holy Wars) all about?
Bit rich of Christians to talk about religious intolerance. What were the Crusades (aka the Holy Wars) all about?