Tuesday, 1 October 2024

Don't Call it "Wales"!

 
I've come across a worrying increase in content from Welsh social media users discussing whether the English name for Wales should be abolished and replaced with Cymru. They say things like: "Rename our country Cymru!" This is a nonsensical statement because it is already called Cymru; this is the name for the country in her own language, Welsh or Cymraeg. When speaking Welsh you always refer to Wales as Cymru, in the same way you refer to England as Lloegr, France as Ffrainc and Germany as Almaen. However, if Frenchmen want to refer to Wales they have their own indigenous term: Pays des Galles. What these keyboard warriors are saying is that the specific name for Wales should be abolished from only the English language. The next edition of the Newspeak Dictionary would therefore list the country as being called "Cymru". We've seen this kind of thing a lot in geography lately. Names that I used to know for countries and cities such as Turkey, Peking, Bombay and Burma have vanished from maps, travel brochures and the media. In the recent Paris Olympics the BBC insisted on addressing the Turkish medal-winning shooting team as "Türkiye". There are movements to continue this practice. New Zealand should be changed to Aotearoa and India, one of the oldest nations on earth, is to be called Bharat. This is nothing more than a typical vulgar act of wokery, no doubt justified by a platitudes about "colonialism" and "Eurocentrism". I refuse to comply with it, as I do all of this cultural Marxist mind-venom. As far as Wales goes, my own homeland, this development is actually very predictable. Y Senedd Cymru, the Welsh parliament, which I visited recently, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2024/01/visiting-senedd.html, love this kind of thing. It's what you'd expect from such a bunch of glorified town councillors when they're suddenly put in charge of a country. Here's an earlier example of their malice: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2021/07/sarah-everard-update.html.

This is all toxic rubbish that feeds what I call the CVD- Celtic Victimhood Delusion. It is one of the most destructive deceptions ever played on us and it has allowed Brussels globalists to take over half of our home islands, see background links below. Sadly, it is believed in by most Welsh people. I'm not just criticizing my own country; in fact Scotland is far worse. The CVD is a very culturally ingrained myth. They truly believe that it is physically impossible for our country to have any other foreign enemy than England. As a result other foreign enemies have just waltzed in unopposed; in fact they have even been welcomed. Perhaps this is an understandable mistake considering our history, but it's time to get over it! We Welsh people must update our mental and cultural software. Those days are over and we now live in a very different world. The CVD is inspiring a cascade of lies such as English people being "not really native British" and calling them "Anglo-Saxon invaders"; which is false, as I explain in my Senedd video linked above. Like all people who gain power, lack responsibility, suffer from low intelligence and feel demographic hatred, they are poised to commit cruelty and injustice. For example, a community council in Gwynedd wants council houses to be granted only to Welsh-speakers. Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg17r60lkvo. This is supported by many people as "encouragement" to learn Welsh; yet this is not encouragement, it is actually tantamount to coercion. It is only encouraging people in the same way Justin Trudeau encouraged Canadian lorry drivers to have a medical treatment, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/01/trevors-trucker-footage.html. This council is calling for people to be forced to use the language, against their will if necessary. At this rate a time is going to come when the Anglophone Welsh are going to have to fight for their rights. The only solution to this dark path Wales is heading down is to speak out and oppose it. We can hope that our words find their way to more sensible ears who have the ability to change things before it is too late
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2021/08/political-correctness-portal.html.
And: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2019/10/brexit-portal.html.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

The inane tokenism of cretinous dilettantes. The biggest threat to the Welsh language is the extinction of the Welsh people. With current pitiful levels of fertility the population will be cut in half every 50 years. The country might be labelled "Cymru" on a map at some point in the future but whoever is left wandering the valleys will not understand why and still less will they give a shit.

Ben Emlyn-Jones said...

Exactly, Anon. It is Welsh-speakers themselves who are horrified by the thought that Welsh is now described by UNESCO as out of danger. They can't cope with the fact that they are no longer the Great Downtrodden and that narcissism is ruining the country.

firechild_uk said...

Back in the day the English refused to acknowledge 'Ireland' (the English version of Éire’) as the official name for Ireland. This was despite the Irish having it written into their constitution alongside Éire’. Weird folks the Welsh Anglophiles...

https://irishempire.org/news/news-politics/what-is-the-correct-name-for-ireland/8

Ben Emlyn-Jones said...

FCUK, yes that's true and now, as usual, they think they can heal an injustice by cancelling it out with another injustice. It doesn't work. All you get is a double dose of injustice.

Anonymous said...

In the 80's, there used to be a TV sitcom called "Never The Twain" starring Tony Britton and Windsor Davies (who was Welsh.) In one episode, Tony Britton referred to Cymru as "Simru" by pronouncing the letter 'C' as an 'S'. I think it was highlighting a common mistake many people make without knowing. 😁

It was quite a funny show.

GlowTone

Ben Emlyn-Jones said...

Hi, GT. I remember that. It was really great comedy with two superb actors. Some of the full episodes are on Dailymotion.