Tribalism

Sorry got it wrong - should have gone in the Nicole Cooke post. Welsh, British stuff.

archierob <[email hidden]> wrote:

: Is it also the curse of Britain (Greater)?

Maybe. However when I used to live in Wales it annoyed me when English (and yes, they were usually
from the home counties/london) refered to Swansea as part of England.

When I used to live in Edinburgh the same thing happened.

But hey, I'm Irish, so what would I know 🙂

Arthur

Quoted message said:

Maybe. However when I used to live in Wales it annoyed me when English (and yes, they were usually
from the home counties/london) refered to Swansea as part of England.

When I used to live in Edinburgh the same thing happened.

All which goes to show that the geographically challenged exist. It's not a purely English trait.
Nothing more, nothing less.

I was working in Scotland a few years ago and got the most awful abuse from some Scottish
"colleagues" simply because I was from England. I pointed out that I'm part Scottish, many
relatives in Scotland and that I had no personal choice over the place of my birth. They went a bit
sheepish after that. However, not all Scots were racist towards me, most were entirely normal human
beings and I have many happy memories of summer holidays on my great aunt's farm up in the
north-east of Scotland.

When visiting relatives who were living in Wales, I had abuse hurled at me simply because I am a
"... bloody English [censored]." by a total stranger with a very Welsh accent who was somehow upset I'd
dared to set foot in his country. Yet not all Welsh people I met were like this and I made some good
friends there.

All of which goes to show racist ar*eholes can be found in various places as can quite pleasant
human beings.

But hey, what would I know, I'm part-Scot, part-Irish, with a smidgen of German thrown in and born
in England.

Cheers, helen s

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On 02 Sep 2003 10:05:57 GMT, [email hidden] (wafflyDIRTYcatLITTERhcsBOX) wrote
(more or less):

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Maybe. However when I used to live in Wales it annoyed me when English (and yes, they were usually
from the home counties/london) refered to Swansea as part of England.

When I used to live in Edinburgh the same thing happened.

All which goes to show that the geographically challenged exist. It's not a purely English trait.
Nothing more, nothing less.

I was working in Scotland a few years ago and got the most awful abuse from some Scottish
"colleagues" simply because I was from England. I pointed out that I'm part Scottish, many
relatives in Scotland and that I had no personal choice over the place of my birth. They went a bit
sheepish after that. However, not all Scots were racist towards me, most were entirely normal human
beings and I have many happy memories of summer holidays on my great aunt's farm up in the
north-east of Scotland.

When visiting relatives who were living in Wales, I had abuse hurled at me simply because I am a
"... bloody English [censored]." by a total stranger with a very Welsh accent who was somehow upset I'd
dared to set foot in his country. Yet not all Welsh people I met were like this and I made some
good friends there.

All of which goes to show racist ar*eholes can be found in various places as can quite pleasant
human beings.

But hey, what would I know, I'm part-Scot, part-Irish, with a smidgen of German thrown in and born
in England.

When I worked in England, my first appraisal marked me down for having a Scottish accent (quite a
mild one, btw).

I then moved employers in London, and my new boss (an native Afrikaans-speaker of East European
jewish extraction whose accent was then further twisted by a prolonged stay in the States) then
complained of my 'incomprehensible' accent.

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wafflyDIRTYcatLITTERhcsBOX said:

a total stranger with a very Welsh accent

Why should his accent be relevant?