Post #1009538

This is *so* important. The survival of the language depends on, among other things, people's perceptions of who is "supposed" to speak it. The idea it's only white, rural people who speak it is completely untrue, and the more different people who learn it and speak it every day, the more it changes the face of what it is to be a #Welsh speaker. (In Welsh) Prejudice that faces black speakers of Welsh is "restrictive" https://www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/erthyglau/cnv8m3mv3v9o ' Seren said, "I have a fairly neutral accent because I've lived in London for nearly a decade and I've moved countries through my life. Also I'm not someone who's white, and I think that a lot of people in London and England, when they think of someone Welsh or who speaks Welsh, they think of someone who's more white. … I was staying in a hotel and the woman at reception was speaking Welsh to everyone, and when she saw me she said (in English), "Good morning, how was your night?" ' #Cymraeg