People never seem to think it is racism when it's between the differing countries of the UK. Or from Brits against Irish people. It really fucking irritates me, because it's an institutional pestilence in the UK to have a pop at the Celtic peoples with lame-ass jokes questioning intelligence and regarding the sodomy of farm animals.
Welsh people can be prejudiced, but hundreds of years of being shit upon by the Union has a tendency to do that to people. My observation living here is that the Welsh are fiercely proud to be Welsh and are proud of the fact that they have managed to hold onto their language and culture when an invading force threatened to take that away. That said, while they do hold a certain amount of animosity towards England as an institution, they are generally very friendly people who meet like with like.
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on 2008-01-08 09:58 pm (UTC)Welsh people can be prejudiced, but hundreds of years of being shit upon by the Union has a tendency to do that to people. My observation living here is that the Welsh are fiercely proud to be Welsh and are proud of the fact that they have managed to hold onto their language and culture when an invading force threatened to take that away. That said, while they do hold a certain amount of animosity towards England as an institution, they are generally very friendly people who meet like with like.