CAN ANYONE SPEAK WENGLISH?
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Sorry that you feel insulted, sorry you feel defending the Welsh language a culture is such a pointless costly waste of time, I've spent the last year doing gigs and events to raise money for the National Eisteddfod in Bala as have many of the population up here, my much better half works for a Welsh television company up here and she's on 20,000 less a year than what her job pays in England the cash never gets from S4C to the small companies that make the programmes, however bbc wales who share the money out have massive bugets for English language programmes and often comission English companies under BBC Wales as not to upset funding in English regions, this was obvious at the Welsh baftas as small independants from Wales were in competition with English companies with twice the funding but comission by BBC Wales,I'm sorry that you have felt your identity is in question, I grew up in the North East, Wrecsam and Deeside before confidence in being Welsh exsisted, at home as my mother had come from Gwynedd I was always aware of my identity, the fellow Welsh who were ashamed of it's uncoolness would call me sheepshagger and make fun of my Welshness and when I returned to Gwynedd to see the family the local kids had a go for being English as my spoken welsh was not natural enough,yes people who champion Welsh language can be cruel but that comes from having their backs against the wall for so long and feeling second class it's a shame that such a backlash attitude is used on non welsh speakers who should be embracing the history and culture but instead are pushed away, yes this is a complicated country, but that's what makes it such a great producer of thinking people
