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What can be done to promote the heritage and culture of Wales?
fawltytowers93
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Any Welshies out here.....What do you think?
Serious question here, don't want any childish/joke answers
Serious question here, don't want any childish/joke answers
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Isn't the "language" rather a large part of the heritage and culture??
I don't speak it myself, but I'm all for the language being everywhere. Should we repace the language with tanning salons?
Are you new here?
Perhaps I'm wrong though - maybe FMs who live there can come up with some examples.
I disagree with it being 'forced' on us. I can choose to ignore it if I wish.
I'd say a language is an extermely important part of a culture, so it should be preserved, encouraged even. People can, and will, make up their own minds.
If we want to 'promote' Wales, sort the airport out and get it a decent motorway link, or at least a far better rail link.
Getting people into Wales would be a start.
Welsh Black Beef?
I think they could make more of things like the Hay-on Wye and Brecon jazz festival.
Beer.
There's plenty of new Welsh microbreweries popping up.
Penderyn? A Welsh whisky, vodka and gin are surely curiosities.
Bombay sapphire sources it's water from Lake Vyrnwy if that counts.
Airport agree, Cardiff is a shambles
Promote the language. The language is the portal to some of the oldest literature in Europe and some of the greatest poetry and stories in oral and bardic culture. Teach more people to speak Welsh so that they can understand the world their ancestors lived in - the noncomformist tradition, the speeches, the writers, the poets, the battles. Teach people why the castles were built. Make sure they know who Llywelyn ap Iorwerth and Hywel Da and Owain Glyndwr and Nest and Siwan and Daniel Owen and Saunders Lewis were.
Teach Welsh history in schools. Sod the Tudors and the Home Front. I'm astounded how few people know about the Chartists, or Taliesin or Aneurin or Offa's Dyke or Gwynfor Evans or Hedd Wyn. That's heritage.
Get people listening to Gwibdaith Hen Fran or Maffia Mr Huws, going to see Luned Rhys Parry or Cefyn Burgess exhibitions.Visit Galeri or Ty Siamas. Go to an Eisteddfod. A local one, not the corporate monstrosity the National has become. That's culture.
I'm greatly insulted by Moondew's comment. Wales isn't just some English shire or some backwater where Americanisms have been slow to penetrate. Of course we have a culture - we're just not intent on plastering it all over bloody YouTube and forcing it across the globe so that it can be turned into a touristy gimmick.
It's all there ready to be explored, but we value it so much that we tend to keep it to ourselves.
:cool: Then you've never tried a `Bakestone` as they are known in Wales (Welsh cakes) to the English...very more-ish, or a tot of `Penderyn Welsh whisky` not to mention the 40 breweries, or their fine bottled Welsh spring water
(http://easyteas.co.uk/grandmas-bakestones-welsh-cakes/
I got annoyed when Jay Rayner was presented with Welsh Cakes on one of those competitive cooking shows and called them "tea cakes". Moron.
Cleary he didn't notice the language!
Actually, talking of plastering it all over youtube, I'm of the opinion that most Welsh people feel so confident and assured of their own culture, which is why we don't plaster it all over youtube, or feel the need to shout about it.
Have you any idea how many years it can take to get
`EU protected Status`...and what `True Welshman` would even care about the EU red tape
My great\great\great grandmother was making `Bakestones` long before you & the EU were even thought of
I've thought of one - bara brith, a Welsh fruit loaf.
If we're talking about food, I don't think Wales has anything which marks it out as uniquely Welsh - but then again there doesn't seem to be such a thing as Scottish or English food either.
There are typical British foods, with lots of regional variations, e.g. Eccles / Chorley / Sad cakes are all variations on a raisin-filled pastry and I'm sure there are loads of other regional varieties.
Welsh cawl can also be identified as stew, lamb broth, lobscouse or (betraying my Lancashire roots) 'tato hash. Put some pastry on it and it becomes hot pot.
Say lamb cawl and you think straight away of Wales - but it's served all over Britain, just under a different name.
Oggie / Cornish pasty.... again, variations on a meat and veg filled pastry.
I think it's interesting that Welsh foods have a lot in common with food recognised as being from northern England, probably owing to shared industries during the industrial revolution. Mining and heavy industry needed filling yet cheap food - hence the Yorkshire puds, eccles cakes, cacenni cri (or bakestones), bara brith, dumplings, hot pot, Bakewell tart etc. Starch and stodge to keep the miners and mill workers going all day.