I don't know if it's any reassurance but the fail I've seen directed at members of my flist about the most recent episode of Torchwood had nothing to do with Welshness at all. In fact, now that you've brought it to my attention, the absence of Welshness is actually quite marked (I even saw someone using a Scottish example).
I think I'm also feeling emo and over-the-top-wronged on account of being...as I always have been...uncertain how to express my feelings about welsh oppression.
I find it extremely difficult to talk about any issue which feels close to home for me so I can sympathise. Remember how defensive I was when I commented to you about racist bombings? I keep nearly posting those comments on my journal and then not because I don't want the scrutiny and the judgement on a subject I'm not capable of discussing with people who won't get it.
but will never be on the same playing field as "our stereotypes mean the police are killing us."
It was once though and there's every reason not to forget that. Also, the Welsh and Scots insistence on a form of multiculturalism within these islands laid foundations which brown people built on. And there're people who're brown AND Welsh too, especially in Cardiff. I think I've told you before that one of my godsons is half-resident in north Wales and is a native Welsh speaker.
and storing them in REFRIGERATORS
Ahahahaha! I'd completely missed the significance of that. Ahahahaha! /inappropriate humour
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Date: 2008-01-29 12:28 am (UTC)I think I'm also feeling emo and over-the-top-wronged on account of being...as I always have been...uncertain how to express my feelings about welsh oppression.
I find it extremely difficult to talk about any issue which feels close to home for me so I can sympathise. Remember how defensive I was when I commented to you about racist bombings? I keep nearly posting those comments on my journal and then not because I don't want the scrutiny and the judgement on a subject I'm not capable of discussing with people who won't get it.
but will never be on the same playing field as "our stereotypes mean the police are killing us."
It was once though and there's every reason not to forget that. Also, the Welsh and Scots insistence on a form of multiculturalism within these islands laid foundations which brown people built on. And there're people who're brown AND Welsh too, especially in Cardiff. I think I've told you before that one of my godsons is half-resident in north Wales and is a native Welsh speaker.
and storing them in REFRIGERATORS
Ahahahaha! I'd completely missed the significance of that. Ahahahaha! /inappropriate humour