Why do you assume Celts hate the English? I'm Celtic and I don't.?

Question

I'm Welsh (and also part-Irish) - so I'm very "Celtic" and I have to categorically say I do NOT "hate" the English. My boyfriend is English and he's lovely and goregeous - the nicest man I've ever met. I much prefer him over the stupid useless Welsh men I've been out with. They were all losers. The only Irishman I've ever been out with drank like a fish and I've never even met a Scotsman who I liked.

I have no interest in "joining with the "Scots and Irish" to fight the English. In fact I get offended on my bf's part when I hear Irish and Scottish and my fellow Welsh people directing hatred against the English. I have always found English people to be polite and friendly and lovely. I even lived in Kent for a while with my boyfriend. I love Wales and am proud of being Welsh but I am not anti-English at all. So why does everyone assume that all "Celts" are anti-English?! Give me a gorgeous Englishman over a Welsh, Scots or Irishman any day!!!!!

No my grandparents are NOT turning in their graves they were open minded people who loved the English as well as I do - and my grandmother was even half English (she married an Irishman) so how can you say that! So ignorant!

And no English people hate me that I have ever met. I have never met an English person who hated me for being Welsh but I have met plenty of Irish who hated me for being "British" and Scots who hate me for not being a Scot.

I'm more resentful of the recent atrocities committed in the UK by the IRA than anything the English did 100s of years ago. And yes I am worked up because of all the BS my bf has to put up from idiots who think being Welsh means having to "hate" English people.

Bob the Slob - quite possibly I've met the wrong men. Its just all the Welshmen I have dated with have been emotionally retarded losers, the only Irishman I dated was also a loser and a alcoholic and I've never met a Scotsman I liked (apart from a certain Dr Who actor!). All the nicest guys I've met have been English. I don't hate or dislike my fellow Celts but I hate the anti-English prejudice as I like English people.

Answer 1

You seem very worked up about this, do you feel defensive about this issue? I'm half English, half Northern-Irish, but I define myself as English because that's where I was brought up. I don't think it's unreasonable of Welsh / Scots / Irish people to resent the English, it's a historical fact that the English invaded all these countries and commited many atrocities there.

However it was all hundreds of years ago and it's good to see that you, at least, have moved on. But it's also good to understand the history behind why some people do still hold grievances.

Answer 2

I don't. I don't know where you got the idea from.

I think I'm English, I married a man half Irish, half Scottish. I never found an Englishman I fancied, but I don't hate them. One of my best friends was Irish.

I don't think you should run down whole groups of people, its prejudice. Even if you had loads of Welsh boyfriends, it wouldn't be thousands(i suppose) so you shouldn't give the impression that all Welshmen are useless. I have been to Wales, so I know that's not true. I always found the Welsh very friendly and pleasant, and the Irish. I don't know the Scots so well, but the Aberdonians were polite when I visited.

On the other hand I think there are historic, and not so historic reasons for the Celts to have negative feelings towards the English, though I would hope that they could make the difference between those who are obnoxious and those who aren't. I really hate the English when they sneer at other people, whether its their accent,language food, appearance or whatever, It is disgusting and ignorant when the English do it, as it is when anyone does it. On the whole those people don't think about what the people they abuse think of them. If they do think they hate them it may be 1 true, because they are obnoxious. 2 they assume it's true because it's the way they are, and they are too stupid to imagine other people could be different.

However, none of this is about who fancies who. You shouldn't really be thinking about WHAT your boyfriend is, but WHO he is.

Answer 3

yahon M. the english DO NOT hate irish, scottish or welsh. We love them and its a shock when you find out that some irish and some scottish people hate your guts. I find the scottish resentment of english people especially pathetic, hippocritical and a bit offensive to be honest, after all they benefited as much as england did from the british empire. I guess the scottish resentment comes from what happened in medievel times but isn't it time to move on from this like everyone else has? Or is the film braveheart too moving for you? English people appreciate and like that film as well you know.

I am from the south west of england which is quite celtic as well, but if you ask me the whole celtic thing is a load of old cobblers, what exactly is a celt? The only way it identifies itself is through language (eg the welsh or cornish language) but seeing as the overwhelming majority of the people in all of the british isles including ireland speak english then I do not see why we can't all get along in the modern era.

Answer 4

I'm English but I've never heard that before. I didn't know there was that sort of prejudice in Britain. I've been to Wales on holiday and I never met anyone with anything against me and I've never had anything against the Welsh and Celtic people.
It's good to know that someone stands for the right things, being against something sillly like that.
I'd go for any nice guy whether he was English, Welsh, African or whatever.
I have no prejudice against Welsh people and to be honest I really like the Welsh accent.

Answer 5

I'm Scottish, and I couldn't care less if somebody is English, Welsh or whatever else. The real question is why do you hate non-English people? Are you honestly saying that men are better just because they are born in England? Don't you think that maybe you just met the wrong men at the wrong time, and actually nationality had nothing to do with it?

Answer 6

I think you are trying to personalise what is a national feeling.The English have lorded it over the Scottish,Irish(North and South) and Welsh for hundreds of years.
I have a lot of English friends and have worked for English companies for 10 years but it is true,they do think they are better than the rest of us,no two ways about it,wake up and smell the coffee !
FTR I am from Northern Ireland and proud of it,I don't want a united Ireland and I don't want to be ruled over by London either,I would vote for an independent state is that was a choice !

Answer 7

that's a shame. staring at Messi & his Barcelona backing team the different evening. between the commentators became on approximately how no team had arise with any conceivable plan for dealing with Barca interior the champions league. the two Rangers and Celtic have been given solid consequences against them and then accused of anti-soccer yet neither club even have been given a point out. If memory serves while Rangers held them to a draw that they had the two Ronaldinho and Messi enjoying, to no longer point out Henry. actuality is until you have comparable high quality (and no one does), shielding (or anti-soccer) is the only thank you to do it. a minimum of Rangers and Celtic comprehend that. What i'm asserting is that English dudes hardly look to nicely known what they are on approximately.

Answer 8

We all know that Wales is just part of England anyway. The Welsh language is all but dead. The reason that most of the planet don't like the English is that they are the biggest whiners on the face of the Earth. They still think like they are "The British Empire." Just take a vacation to any European country where an Englishman is vacationing and you can spot him a mile away..he is the pasty white(or lobster red) loud mouthed drunk asking the Spaniard why he doesn't speak English! The difference between an Englishman and a Jumbo Jet?? The Jumbo Jet stops whining when it lands at the airport!

Answer 9

I'm welsh. I don't hate the English people. I know Welsh who do but I have come across many many English people who hate the Welsh. I know a couple of people who left the army over it!
You are being naive to your own experiences.
There is also a divide between people from North & South Wales, and have come across a lot of people from North Wales who have given me a lot of abuse because I come from South Wales.

Summing up - a lot of people are dumb!

Answer 10

OK. This all strikes me as kind of silly. I get why there is some tension in Northern Ireland given that that whole mess is within living memory (just). But I don't get why it is so popular these days to exclude Britain from the term "Celtic". Sure, the language is a combination of a Germanic and a Romance one, but the British have Celtic ancestry as well. Anyway, to answer your actual question, I don't assume anything on the level of blanket generalisation. For myself, I hate certain historical figures. (Cromwell, I'm looking at you!)