Oh Candice
You're losing me completely: since when was I , or anyone else in Britain, a
citizen?
Oddly enough it is quite usual to see writers from Scotland, Ireland or
Wales to compare each to each other.
btw, in answer to an earlier point, I mean Ireland in the sense of its Rugby
Union team.
I spend much of my time wondering whether I've enough money to afford to eat
through to the end of the month. Seems a peculiar characteristic in an
Imperial oppressor. Obviously I'm not extracting enough taxes from the
peasants on my Welsh estates.
I'm tired, it's late, and this is starting to get silly. Let's give it a
rest.
best
dave
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Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2001 2:30 AM
Subject: Re: Wales
> Er, the question was "Why?"--meaning why must the cultures of three such
> disparate countries be compared at all EXCEPT relative to a fourth country
> (of which you are a citizen) and former metropole, which continues to see
> them as more or less equivalent satellites. As for your politics, well, I
> took you for more of a maypole or beanpole than a metropole--Candice
>
>
> >Unfortunately, in respect of all three countries, the colonial power is
> >still not has-been, and even more so it remains unretired in respect of
> >England itself, which remains, in its heart and marches, still its own
first
> >and most foremost colony.
> >Except, in respect this time of all four countries, that they are more
and
> >more economic and cultural colonies of a fourth, larger and more powerful
> >nation. One which quite deliberately employs cultural imperialism as a
means
> >to economic dominance.
> >Long live the French film industry.
> >
> >As for my political stance, I am quite at a loss to know what you are
> >reading into my perspective on Cymru. Whatever it is, it's not mine.
> >
> >regards
> >
> >david
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Candice Ward <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 6:54 AM
> >Subject: Re: Wales
> >
> >
> >> David Bircumshaw wrote:
> >>
> >> <But any honest response to Welsh culture today has to compare it with
> >that
> >> of Scotland or Ireland now and I'm afraid the comparison is not
> >favourable.>
> >>
> >> Why?
> >>
> >> And what would be "honest" about a response that compared Welsh culture
> >with
> >> those of two other countries with two different native languages,
neither
> >of
> >> which is Welsh?
> >>
> >> With all due respect, David, the only possible basis for a comparison
> >among
> >> Wales, Scotland, and Ireland (the South, presumably) is the perspective
of
> >> the has-been colonial power common to the histories of all three--a
> >vantage
> >> point you might be said to occupy geographically, but which hardly
seems
> >> consistent with the stances you usually take here politically.
> >>
> >> So, what gives? I wonder, after having followed this exchange between
you
> >> and Matthew for the last couple of days, if it hasn't really moved
beyond
> >> the issue of useage (i.e., "provincial").
> >>
> >> Bemusedly,
> >>
> >> Candice
> >
> >
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