18/11/2007 - It's not racism if you're talking about the Welsh.

[rosiedoes]

Apparently, this is me 'naming names' - also known as the person in question knowing exactly who they were.

I was going to actually post some of the conversation in question, to allow people to make their own decisions about who was in the wrong - but a) I'm not quite as childish as some people would like to think and b) I have more compassion for the stuff in there which was genuinely personal and not hysterical racism.

I don't believe, however, in letting people make racist comments about their friends, and at the time I did say this:






Perhaps the saddest thing, is that aside from being angry at her behaviour, I won't mourn the loss of this 'friendship' at all and I doubt it would have been so convincing for Amanda if she hadn't already had doubts about the value and integrity of the friendship herself. After all, I wasn't there, but she was.

Comments

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

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.

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

To be perfectly fucking frank, I'm proud of the Welsh for holding on to that! They retain the last vestiges of the true British Isles' heritage, and I wish I had more of that strength of identity.

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

I am too. If you'd have asked me 6 months ago, I might have said that I wished to live back in England, but now? No fucking way. I really have come to love it here, despite all the shit that happened the first year I lived down here. Here, I know who I am, and it has taught me to be proud of my cultural identity. I wouldn't trade that for anything.

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

And I'm really glad you're happy, now.

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

About time, eh? :oP

[rosiedoes.livejournal.com]

I should say so! <3