# haxe-ui
- f
full-journalist-82607
02/10/2023, 2:27 PMHe's one of the good English 😉 - c
clever-yak-82528
02/10/2023, 2:27 PMI try - c
clever-yak-82528
02/10/2023, 2:28 PMIt's funny (and by funny I mean horrifying) how little the 800 years of oppression of Welsh culture and identity comes up in school in England - b
bright-gpu-74537
02/10/2023, 2:29 PMlike anything i guess right? The victors write the history books... even more mental when you think that england started from wales (or so im told anyway) - c
clever-yak-82528
02/10/2023, 2:29 PM...what? - b
bright-gpu-74537
02/10/2023, 2:30 PMwell, that the original peoples from the isles were welsh - c
clever-yak-82528
02/10/2023, 2:30 PMYeah - c
clever-yak-82528
02/10/2023, 2:30 PMSort of - c
clever-yak-82528
02/10/2023, 2:30 PMThen various Germanic people invaded - c
clever-yak-82528
02/10/2023, 2:30 PMEnglish people are mostly Anglo-Saxon - b
bright-gpu-74537
02/10/2023, 2:30 PMsure, and a bunch of others - c
clever-yak-82528
02/10/2023, 2:30 PMPlus Norman - c
clever-yak-82528
02/10/2023, 2:31 PMEtc - b
bright-gpu-74537
02/10/2023, 2:31 PM"never defeated"... oh, except that one time, oh and yeah, that other, oh and yeah, we dont talk about that one 😄 - f
full-journalist-82607
02/10/2023, 2:31 PMYeah, I kind of think it's normal. I 'm sure there were many other tribes that were just erased culturally so that they don't even have a mention. - b
bright-gpu-74537
02/10/2023, 2:32 PMi think the welsh got a really bum deal though... very recently too with the whole "maggie thatcher" and coal mine shafting (pun somewhat intended) - c
clever-yak-82528
02/10/2023, 2:32 PMAlso, it's not that the original people were Welsh, it's that the original people (Brythonic people) are the ancestors of the Welsh (+ Cornish, Breton...) - b
bright-gpu-74537
02/10/2023, 2:32 PMyeah, i mean, i meant decended from - c
clever-yak-82528
02/10/2023, 2:32 PMJust following on from the previous 8 centuries of bum deals - c
clever-yak-82528
02/10/2023, 2:34 PMHence, in the song "yma o hyd", the line "er gwaetha'r hen Fagi a'i chriw" - b
bright-gpu-74537
02/10/2023, 2:36 PMim technically English (born there), never really lived there - grew up in the middle east, spain, gibralter - parents are Irish - live in Malta (and before BCN)... so id like to gracefully dissolve myself of any ancestral blame 🤣 - c
clever-yak-82528
02/10/2023, 2:36 PMHeh - c
clever-yak-82528
02/10/2023, 2:36 PMAncestral blame is a weird thing - c
clever-yak-82528
02/10/2023, 2:36 PMLike - c
clever-yak-82528
02/10/2023, 2:37 PMI feel a sense of responsibility for what my ancestors did, but also, I didn't do it, they did - c
clever-yak-82528
02/10/2023, 2:37 PMI feel responsible, but not guilty - c
clever-yak-82528
02/10/2023, 2:37 PMIt's not like I can stop them having done it - c
clever-yak-82528
02/10/2023, 2:38 PMI can do something to help the aftereffects and try and prevent it happening again but I can't change the past - b
bright-gpu-74537
02/10/2023, 2:38 PMi think there are a few places "i get it": * when insane generational weath is built up because of some type of "cuntishness" * when said cuntishness leads to a type of modern cultural "issue" - c
clever-yak-82528
02/10/2023, 2:38 PMMm