I was just speaking today with an English man married to a Welsh woman, living in Cardiff. My understanding from him is that the Welsh language was fading out when his wife was a child, but much more common now even in the English-speaking south. Their children attend a school carried on entirely in Welsh and are fluent in both languages, versus the mother who can suss out a bit of reading and that’s it.
It made me want to learn what Wales did since about the time of this film to achieve what appears to be a very different result.
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The man near the end saying Ireland will become a sponge taking the bad with the good, was right. We import American media and American politics and American ways of thinking both conservatively and liberally en masse to the point that there are more American liberal and American conservative talking points floating around young peoples conversations than any Irish political or cultural ideology.
The US has a culture of extremes and importing all that crap over here does us no good.
Jesus, that last man speaking about the dishonest attitude to it is absolutely correct.
The woman saying that point about the culture being very superficial if it depends on a language – FFS, surely a language is fundamental to culture? If you look at France, before there were painters, architects, cuisine, authors, artists, anything else that a French person might take pride in in their culture, there was their language. Such a nonsense point
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I was just speaking today with an English man married to a Welsh woman, living in Cardiff. My understanding from him is that the Welsh language was fading out when his wife was a child, but much more common now even in the English-speaking south. Their children attend a school carried on entirely in Welsh and are fluent in both languages, versus the mother who can suss out a bit of reading and that’s it.
It made me want to learn what Wales did since about the time of this film to achieve what appears to be a very different result.
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The man near the end saying Ireland will become a sponge taking the bad with the good, was right. We import American media and American politics and American ways of thinking both conservatively and liberally en masse to the point that there are more American liberal and American conservative talking points floating around young peoples conversations than any Irish political or cultural ideology.
The US has a culture of extremes and importing all that crap over here does us no good.
Jesus, that last man speaking about the dishonest attitude to it is absolutely correct.
The woman saying that point about the culture being very superficial if it depends on a language – FFS, surely a language is fundamental to culture? If you look at France, before there were painters, architects, cuisine, authors, artists, anything else that a French person might take pride in in their culture, there was their language. Such a nonsense point