You're welcome, I'm glad you found it interesting and thanks for the response.
I think, alas, privilege will always manifests itself in that kind of ignorance - it's an assumption that this is how reality works because it couldn't possibly work another way - it blocks the need to even consider whether the issue at hand tallies with other attitudes one might hold. I'm fortunate that I'm not often on the receiving end of it, but it makes sense that there's a universality in the experience of passive oppression (and overt, aggressive oppression too, obviously, though that's fortunately not what we're talking about in this instance). :(
I've often wondered if some of the English-in-Wales who've moved there recently were in search of rural England (and possibly as a low-key British form of "white flight").
Yeah, this is pretty true, I think. There are a lot of, well, to put it bluntly, rich, white English folks who retire to rural Wales. Pembrokeshire - the south western peninsula - is one of the places that sometimes goes Tory here (and did this time), and, well, there's a reason we call it, "Little England Beyond Wales". (Though there are also some odd historical quirks associated with that area and its migration patterns).
Humorous aside: one of my Welsh-speaking friends from north-west Wales claims the Labour Party only have even a foothold in many parts of Wales because the local Labour clubs were the one place that served alcohol on Sundays.... lolz.
AHAHAHAHAH. I believe it. I toooootally believe it!
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Date: 2011-05-08 11:10 am (UTC)I think, alas, privilege will always manifests itself in that kind of ignorance - it's an assumption that this is how reality works because it couldn't possibly work another way - it blocks the need to even consider whether the issue at hand tallies with other attitudes one might hold. I'm fortunate that I'm not often on the receiving end of it, but it makes sense that there's a universality in the experience of passive oppression (and overt, aggressive oppression too, obviously, though that's fortunately not what we're talking about in this instance). :(
I've often wondered if some of the English-in-Wales who've moved there recently were in search of rural England (and possibly as a low-key British form of "white flight").
Yeah, this is pretty true, I think. There are a lot of, well, to put it bluntly, rich, white English folks who retire to rural Wales. Pembrokeshire - the south western peninsula - is one of the places that sometimes goes Tory here (and did this time), and, well, there's a reason we call it, "Little England Beyond Wales". (Though there are also some odd historical quirks associated with that area and its migration patterns).
Humorous aside: one of my Welsh-speaking friends from north-west Wales claims the Labour Party only have even a foothold in many parts of Wales because the local Labour clubs were the one place that served alcohol on Sundays.... lolz.
AHAHAHAHAH. I believe it. I toooootally believe it!