I was born in Tradegar, and was brought up in Cwmbran. I moved away from Wales more than 30 years ago, and now live in Finland. My wife is English, and she doesn’t get how much I go on about being proud to be Welsh.

by dangerous_welshman

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  2. Wales is a great country, and Welsh culture is something to be cherished.

    But be proud of your accomplishments.

    Where you were born is not an accomplishment, it’s random chance.

  3. Born and live in Cardiff.

    Proud Brit.

    Wales is part of Britain after all.

  5. It drives me nuts. Germans have total ignorance of the geography of Uk. Every time when the subject arises of my nationality I’d get asked if I am English (Engländer). I promptly remind them that Britain is made up of more than one area and that I am welsh. The sad thing is that the majority have never heard of wales

  6. I felt like I was felt left out because I didn’t like rugby or speak speak Welsh.

    But I’m proud to be Welsh, our people, culture and land.

  7. I don’t loose much sleep over it. I don’t really ‘feel’British in the way I feel welsh.

  8. How can one be Welsh and not British? The Welsh are more British than the English and Scottish.

  9. The Welsh are British, more so than the English. It’s a bit weird to be fiercely patriotic but also ignorant of the history of your country.

  10. Never been, my ancestry is very welsh though. And though I have no real claim to it. I fee very welsh. I love the history, culture, language. Cymru Am Byth.

  11. I’ve been in and out of Wales a couple of times now during my life, and still extremely Welsh. I don’t feel British in the way that I feel Welsh, and I’ve always told people that I am Welsh when I’ve been asked where I’m from

  12. “Welsh not British” haha, because I can think of several individuals who born in Wales who aren’t Welsh 😉

    Also, if you want Welsh kids, raise them in Wales!

  13. Living abroad you get ‘oh you’re English!’ They then have a 30 minute lecture with slides about the difference of English and Welsh.

  14. I am not Welsh but I feel Welsh. I have deeply connected with the journey your people have made just to get where you are today. The idea of being forced out of somewhere you rightfully belong and having the things that make you you attempting to be bullied out of you is just something I feel very familiar with. I have never been the favorite one out of my friends or the favorite student for the way I live my life. Every time I try to do something a way that isn’t theirs even if it works is forced out of me before it can be made apart of myself. Your culture was so inspiring that it couldn’t be beaten out of me even if you killed me. It is part of my soul even if Cymry blood doesn’t flow through my veins. I even try my best to remember Owain Glyndwr day, st David’s day and even st Dwynwen’s day. I have done my best to make myself as Welsh culturally as I possibly can even if I can’t really be Welsh.

  15. When will you all get it, the Welsh are descended from the original Britons before the Romans invaded so as Welsh we are more British than anyone else. I class myself equally British and Welsh and I’m proud to say it

  17. Very Welsh. Born in Wales, will move back to Wales to raise kids, and will retire and die there. I have had many failed attempts to learn the language, but I will crack that before I leave this sweet earth.

    Having said that, I have an English wife, and currently live in England, so I feel both Welsh and British. I feel a very strong connection to the working class of England, and when it comes to the middle class, there’s far more that unites us than divides us. It’s the toffs I feel disconnected from.

    I still can’t stand them in any sporting context, mind.

  18. Welsh people have always been British, even more so than the English and Scots.

  19. I’m living in South Africa and working in Mozambique but still Welsh!!

  20. Like it or not, you’re a British citizen with a British passport

  21. Lived in England and Germany in my young life, have always and will always be Welsh no matter how much I need to explain it

  22. With the dominance of England in the UK, and the resulting conflation of British and English, it’s reasonable that many from Wales, whether ex-pats or not, would identify as Welsh not British. The stuff about the descendants of the Ancient Britons being more British than those from the either UK member-countries is totally irrelevant to this discussion.

  23. 40 years living away from Wales, definitely Welsh first, British second. Now we’re retired we’re looking to move back to Wales, just need to decide where!

  25. Calling us british is just a roundabout way of calling us english

  26. Never British. I’m back in Wales now, but when I lived in France, I was very strongly Welsh and not British. I’m still Welsh not British, but I was then, too.

  27. Wales is still part of Britain which also makes you British too. You are qelsh and british

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