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- 2 visits - 07/11/2010Telling it as it really is, at end of the day it's a truth that Welsh Cultural 'language' Nationalism is much more a developed ideal that dominates within Plaid Cymru sometimes thought to be a Welsh Nationalist Party. Certainly the main leading figures of Welsh Cultural 'language' Nationalism specifically Saunders Lewis and Gwynfor Evans were protagonists of a Cultural 'language' Nationalism where on the whole the fate of the native language was more important than the struggle for Welsh Independence and Sovereign Nationhood.
Saunders Lewis certainly regarded the survival of the language as more important than Independence, his ideas have influenced many Cultural 'Language' Nationalists who if honest would indicate they think and feel the same way. Certainly the language Movement Adfer did and I would not be surprised if most members of present day language groups Cymuned and Llais Gwynedd thought the same way. Whilst CyIG aka Plant Crachach and fellow camp followers I suggest for the most part also consider the same unless of course they had political ambitions to be Plaid AM's, MP's or MEP's with need to hold out a political nationalist pretense for a while.
THE DRAGON IN THE GARAGE: NATIONALISM, POLITICS AND IDENTITY IN...
1 Oct 2010 ... The question of Welsh independence has been removed from ..... Lowell,Saunders Lewis, Planet and Solzhenitsyn, and not The Sun and ...
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For most however, I have no doubt the majority of their number hold more ambition to me citizens of a Welsh Language Industry 'Byd Cymry' than Citizens of a Free Independent Wales. Note the current Plant Crachach campaign to not just save S4C but also demand it's 'Independence' to the point of not paying TV Licences and risk going to jail, surely an indication of how many Cultural 'Language' Nationalists do not hold the same self sacrificing struggle for Welsh Freedom and Political Independence as many 'Adfywiadwyr Gwladgarol' (radical Republican Nationalists) did in the 'Sixties. They were prepared to fight, be imprisoned and die for Welsh Freedom and Political Independence not simply a TV channel.
Cultural nationalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cultural nationalism is a form of nationalism in which the nation is defined by a shared (inherited) culture, as opposed to, for instance, its ethnicity or ...
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Literary critics and historians use cultural nationalism to refer to collective practices that form modern political communities within, unsanctioned by, ...
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Clearly it is Cultural 'language' Nationalism that predominates in Cymru/Wales and not Political Nationalism and reading the below will clearly show this not only has a long historical past but certainly has got a future. Not that needs be means the aspirations of Cultural 'language' Nationalists will succeed towards a fully bilingual Cymru/Wales, it is very doubtful that such will be so unless there are really radical language policies adopted. The Cymry/Welsh will also need to have a major change of heart if the continued decline of 'Yr Hen Iaith' is to be halted and language saved even in it's Cymric Rural Heartlands against the threat of rural economic decline and depopulation.
Rural Wales and the Welsh Language
by J Aitchison - 1991 - Cited by 5 - Related articles
heartland. The other is more general in that the whole of Y Fro Gymraeg is affected. ..... the Welsh Language Today. It was from these pressures that new ...
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heartland. The other is more general in that the whole of Y Fro Gymraeg is affected. ..... the Welsh Language Today. It was from these pressures that new ...
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Whatever, the below makes good the case as to why historical Y Cymry are BRITS and will remain so!
The Plight of Pygmy Nations; Wales in Early Modern Europe Philip .
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At the end of the century, some of the best testimony to the strength of Welsh cultural patriotism comes from the correspondence of Edward Lhuyd the ...spruce.flint.umich.edu/~ellisjs/PJenkins.PDF
At the end of the century, some of the best testimony to the strength of Welsh cultural patriotism comes from the correspondence of Edward Lhuyd the ...spruce.flint.umich.edu/~ellisjs/PJenkins.PDF
Unfortunatly this will not be changed, the best chance to reverse this Cambro - 'Ancient Briton' identity politically was with Iolo Morgannwg in the 18th century, see blog below:
CAMBRIAN NATION - NO! CENEDL CYMRY RYDD - YES!: IOLO MORGANNWG ...
-27 Sep 2009 ... Iolo could have possibly have become the Father of Welsh Republicanism but... why not a Iolo Cultural Festival on or about date of his birth 10 March 1747 and ....CAMBRIAN BRITON - WELSH NATIONALISM is Alive and
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Then in the 'Sixties' but for Saunders Lewis and Gwynfor Evans prevailing with their brands of pacifist Cultural 'Language' Nationalism rather than the Radical Militant Republican Nationalism of Owen Williams and John Jenkins. It's taken me a long time to realise that it's 'Game Over' for the idea of Welsh Nationalism and Struggle for Independence that I have believed in for over 40 years. The process by which I have come to accept it's 'Game Over' and at same time change my political views possibly began as I was getting old and the fire of youthful idealism began dieing away. Although, living in England for so long, listening to BBC World Service and reading articles as below all contributed influentially to a major 'Sea Change'.
17 Mar 2010 ... Is this type of nationalism representative of Wales? Not necessarily. Immigration certainly helped to create a distinctive culture in South ...
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However, it is the political pointlessness of Plaid Cymru with it's shabby cynicism and shallow prefabrications regards being or not being a Nationalist Party along with duplicitous role of the Welsh Assembly politics which at end of day crosses the 'T's and dots the 'i's. All as me put it in a box and nail down the lid so to speak! Whatever, there is a truth we must all face, we of an older generation, can we honestly advance ideas of an unsustainable Independence when our Nation's Sovereignty has been totally sold out to the European Union before we have even won it back from England. It's all rather nonsensical when we must admit Socially and Economically we are not only historically an unwanted Nation State but now one that has no chance of succeeding. We are but a failed Nation State in waiting and taking this truth aboard can one honestly seek to win people over to a lost cause or condemn ones children and grandchildren to live here in hopelessness and no real fulfillment with lies and a fraud that speaks not the truth that Wales is Dieing! It's future, is as a West British Region almost that already if the truth was known and that Crachach and Chattering Classes Construct was not pulling the wool over our eyes.
Sorry to say the truth is FIN! but that's only if one continues to believe in Nationalist Day Dreams, alternativelly perhaps the Welsh can continue to learn to live, work and die in a West British Region. Certainly Y Cymry can, they have been doing so since Cenedl Glyndwr sadly became a failed Nation State!
G.Gruffydd.
