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Originally Posted by NewYorkerwannabe
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"Also to note, we like the Scots and the Irish...but hate the English! so do the Scots and Irish! poor old bullying England! lol..."
Really?
I don't think my Welsh husband hates his "English" wife.
I think Warren Gatland, your rugby coach might say Wales hates the Irish more than the English...but that would only be on the final match of the 6N tournement.
And YOU might want to look back over your history and consider the fact that a King of French/English descent married the daughter of one of the Kings of France following Agincourt. A battle that was won by WELSH archers standing side by side next to ENGLISH troops fighting under the banner of the English.
You might also want to consider the Welsh lords/tribal leaders that sold the soul of their people to an English King...see Edward The First onwards.
You might want to consider that it was a Frenchman, William the Conquerer of the English that set the Marcher lords in place to keep the unruly Welsh in place.
You might want to consider the fact that the English were conquered first. By a Frenchman. You might also want to get your facts straight when you say the Welsh hate the English. By and large they don't. South Wales is hated by West Wales AND North Wales for selling out to commerce. For not helping out with the commerce and infrastructure in those two areas.
And for such a patriotic Welsh person you aren't doing bad by wanting to be a New Yorker.
And before you get on your high horse about yet another arrogant English woman, let me explain. My grandfather was French...his father left France in 1895 with my great-grandparents because they didn't like the way France was being run.
They settled in London for a while and them moved to Glasgow because of his metalworking skills. My Grandfather grew up as a Scotsman but never forgot his French heritage. Then as he grew and met then married my Scottish Grandmother - a member of the McIntyre Clan, he embraced all that Scotland could offer him and his young family.
My mother met and married my father, and Englishman in the Navy and bought up four children with the help of other Navy wives based in Portsmouth, England.
I was born in Scotland. I went back there three times a year when my family moved to England.
England gave me the life I have now and for the past ten years I have lived in Wales with my husband.
My son can play rugby for Wales by residency, for England by birth, for Scotland due to his family ties and also for France.
I would suggest to you that I am British. As are you. And if you wish to become a New Yorker, embrace all that the US can offer you but shut up and hand in your BRITISH passport as it ill becomes my country to have ambassadors like you in the States.
And just for good measure, I have personal friends in New York, Biloxi and San Diego. They adore the British.
You should think before you speak online as a Google search looking for the English/Welsh language debate returned your thread.