Sorry you had such a bad experience, but there are a few inconsistencies / generalisations in your story I must question, especially as you've seen fit as a first-time-member to resurrect a six-year old irrelevant thread.walesdestroyedme wrote:Well i have just abandoned a house in Wales, mired in debt, my simple ambition of completing my education more or less in tatters. Basic education funding denied and frequent absurd racial abuse from welsh colleagues and customers on account of my English accent. Why hate outsiders so intensely? I thought the anti-english racism was a bit of a myth until I tried to settle there. Im sure you Welsh forum members will be pleased that I will never cross that "border" again. I only hope for some kind if Berlin Wall to be erected, with snipers too.
Firstly - basic education funding denied? Student Finance Wales do not discriminate if you are a non-Welsh person, in fact they provide funding to anyone from the EU and beyond. If funding was denied, you must not have fulfilled criteria that have nothing to do with you being English, such as studying a non-covered course, having defaulted on other financial matters, or you were studying at an institution that charged more than you were able to get in a loan.
Secondly - you show a breathtaking amount of racism yourself by tainting ALL Welsh people - including those on this forum which, as you have only just joined you do not know at all - with the same brush that you have used against the people you have had direct interaction with. We are not all anti-English bigots as I have said in this VERY THREAD.
Thirdly - Wales is actually an incredibly tolerant country, on the whole. During the 1920s Cardiff was THE centre of world trade and all manner of goods, services and peoples came in to work. Without foreign investment including from English industrialists, Wales' legendary coal industry would never have got off - or even out of - the ground. My own great-great-great grandfather came in from Somerset to live and work in the Welsh coalfield. My grandmother was a London war evacuee. One of my best mates is half-Persian and he is the loudest, strongest, and drunkest cheerer for Cardiff City and Wales football teams I know. As such we have a large proportion of second- and third- generation Welsh people with genetic and cultural makeups from all over the planet. And we all get along quite nicely thankyou.
Lastly - it's amazing how many English people I meet go in to living in Wales with preconceptions about how the Welsh will treat the English. They hear stories about how Welsh people will deliberately start speaking Welsh in pubs and on buses when an English person is in earshot. Even though only a quarter of the population have any Welsh language skills at all. They hear stories about how Welsh terrorist groups firebomb English properties, even though Mabion Glyndwr was only three blokes in a shed with some propane. Most English are put off by this scaremongering, and those that do come here, like yourself, are susceptible to seeing and hearing prejudice when actually what you are hearing is good-old-fashioned Welsh ribbing and banter. The generation that had genuine grievances against the English for things like forcing them out of their homes to flood the valley to provide water for Liverpool has largely since passed, replaced by a new younger generation who like soccer and drop their Welsh language education as soon as they can. In short, outside of the heavily politicised, no-one gives a shit any more.
EDIT: For an alternative view, I suggest you read Mike Parker's Neighbours From Hell.