Since the 'Sixties' Y Crachach Newydd have strived to create our identity based on their largely 'Rural Rooted' past and present manipulated anew to suit their coming of age with the establishment of a Welsh Language Industry and not least a 'Cymric Media Crach' largely resident in Cardiff and in particular within the 'Pontcanna Patagonia' and at a stretch Bontfaen and no doubt Bae Caerdydd, anywhere but in 'Y Fro Cymraeg'. I could go on but suffice to say this class has had until recent times a major influence upon Welsh Nationalism making of it more a Cultural Nationalism though now as this political Trojan Horse is no longer needed as a means of advancing the well heeled 'Plant Trefechan Bridge'. It's influences are still all and everywhere furthering their vision of what our 'Welsh Identity' should be, one based on the native language, all very well if that language had not been hijacked by the Tudor/Richmond Reformists to further Protestantism and make the 'Acts of Union' solidify towards a Cambro - Britishness. Essentially nothing changed very much over the years that followed up to the 19th century with the rise of a 'New Protestantism' that of Non - Conformity so condemned for it's Cymric ambivalence by Proffessor Hywel Teifi Edwards. even in our own times Gwynfor Evans RIP President of Plaid Cymru was influenced by this Cambro - Britishness which he politically modernized as seeking a new Act of Union in a 'British Federation' which recently arch traitor Dafydd Elis Thomas reinvented and no doubt a post 2016 British Election Plaid Cymru will increasing adopt more as their only way forward having been politically squeezed again and perhaps pushed aside by UKIP.
So, what of a Welsh Identity for starters it must be a rejection of that being pushed on us by the above 'Plant Bont Trefechan' and the new post Devolution Dilettante new 'Cambro - Britishess' of WAG Welsh Labour. We must seek a future Welsh Identity on that advanced by the Founding Fathers of Cenedl Glyndwr who the Tudors sought to kick into the shadows of Welsh History but then take aboard the beliefs of the Father of Welsh Nationalism Iolo Morgannwg and create an identity in our own image, that of the past pobl Glyndwr and the present day Fighters for Welsh Freedom and Independence not the Political, Cultural and Grant Grabbing Arts Establishments and a spineless Intellectual Establishment all of whom to be honest push me towards an Anti - Independence camp not wishing to be ruled by these Gombeens and Lickspittals. Now read this:
Also Hywel Teifi Edwards on Victorian Wales.
Not least get to grips with this:
Also a must:
Getting Real or somewhere near it but for some lazy dumb dopes out there on the pathetic Patriotic Fringe, much needs to be set aside and we will begin again in commemoration of the Birth and death of Iolo Morgannwg:
Forgetting all that Rali Cilmeri Crap - a Grave Yard for Radical pointless Nationalism, buckle up and on with the Gauntlets and wise up as there is now only these calls to action worth listening to and following:
THE HISTORY YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO >
THE ACTION YOU NEED TO ENGAGE IN >
THE POLITICS TO BELIEVE IN >
Other Information on Welsh Identity:
Welsh people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_people
1.1 21st century identity. 1.1.1 2001 census; 1.1.2 2011 census; 1.1.3 Surveys. 2 Culture. 2.1 Language; 2.2 Religion. 3 National symbols; 4 Welsh emigration ...
Geography and identity in Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_and_identity_in_Wales
A number of historians of Wales have queried the notion of a single, cohesive Welsh identity. In 1921 Sir Alfred Zimmern, the inaugural professor of international ...
BBC Wales - History - Themes - Welsh wartime identity
www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/themes/.../ww2_welsh_identity.shtml
Article about Welsh identity during the second World War on the BBC Wales History site.
BBC News - Eye on Wales: In search of 21st Century Welsh identity
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-14176558
17 Jul 2011 - As Wales steps in to a new era of making laws for itself, what does Welsh identity mean in the 21st Century?
Click on Wales » Welsh identity
www.clickonwales.org/tag/welsh-identity/
Rhys David on a new book that asks what exactly it is to be Welsh and how well it is surviving in a multicultural world. Tags: Welsh identity, welsh language
Mapping Welsh identity: How Welsh is your area? - Wales Online
www.walesonline.co.uk/.../mapping-welsh-identity-how-welsh-1883006
16 Nov 2010 - We've mapped data from the Assembly government to show the Welshness of each area of Wales.
David Williamson: Our Welsh identity can survive and thrive in the ...
www.walesonline.co.uk/.../david-williamson-welsh-identity-can-201449...
19 Dec 2012 - The identity of a country is defined as much by the self-identity of its people as by lines drawn on a map.
D172 - Contemporary Wales - Open University Course
www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/d172.htm
Explore what is distinctive about Wales and Welsh identity in terms of culture, society, economy and politics.
