Why are Welsh people so proud to be Welsh?

Question

Obviously its good to be proud of where you come from but why does every Welsh person on tv go on and on about it.

Answer 1

i lived in wales for 5 years, i'm english. the welsh are great people but sometimes they go a bit overboard on the national heratige thing. personaly i thinks it's because welsh is a dying launguage but they want to preserve it. this seems to be the biggest conversation piece in wales. truth is it doesn't have a place in the modern world because unless your brought up speaking it, it can't be learned. the sentence construction rules are incredably hard if not imposable to learn and no matter how much you speak somebody will put you down for speaking it wrong, even if your trying to learn. that is the problem. they don't want people to be there unless there welsh, but unfortunatly for them, the world doesn't work like that. Plad cymru are a bunch of jokers who do more damage to the country than help it.

going back to what a previous answerer stated, they where once a major part in the world (coal) but not anymore. they don't have anything to give to the world accept their history, until the recognise that and move on there problems and there view of the rest of the world will only get worse.

Answer 2

Being welsh myself this explanation is an easy one, it stems from the days when wales was riddled with functioning coal mines we were at one time the most economically stable country in europe half of the worlds coal came from here we apparently took so much pride in our strength as a nation it has been instilled in each generation to be proud of who you are and where you come from, it is written in celtic lore that to be born welsh is a privelage. Most of the time we're the forgotten country everybody knows where Ireland england and scotland are nobody remembers us 'we were wiped of the European map a few years ago!!!' until somebody said hey wait a minute wheres wales? The true welsh ancestry comes from a long line of celtic warriors (anybody remember boudica?) we stand up for what we beleive in and that is where we come from everbody forgets about us so why shouldnt we boast about being welsh, after all if it wasn't for us nobody would driving cars today (we invented the steam engine) and for nobody who knows his name it's richard trevithick We're welsh and proud of it, anymore questions?

Answer 3

Who on tv is Welsh?

Answer 4

i went to wales once and got lost so asked the only bugger around where to go, he very nicely said strait down and turn right at the lights, we did so only to find youe could turn right but literally it was about a meter then it was a solid brick wall ????? what the ???????
Now 2 things there was it a great joke they play on the english? and who the bugger went and took the time too build it? probably the guy who directed us.

Answer 5

wales is beautiful but pride is something everyone should have for there country. but saying that above cardiff on the map the further up u go the more freaks there r who take it to the extreme cos theres nothing else for them to think about i.e that idiot glyn from big brother!!!

Answer 6

And wot's wrong with that? I think other parts of the UK can learn from that example, especially England, then we'd not have so much unhappiness.

(No, I'm not Welsh.)

Answer 7

why shouldn't they be proud of being welsh

Answer 8

you should be proud of where you were born and not forget your roots whether your from scotland where i am from england irealand or wales that is what makes great britain and britain great which we are no matter what other people say

Answer 9

Cos we all have Peugoet 205 GTi`s

Answer 10

The same as i am to be English