Comment on People assume I can't speak Welsh because I'm not white
AnnieByniaeth@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Actress Mali Ann Rees said inclusivity was key to encouraging more people to speak Welsh, with “no excuse” for unconscious bias.
There’s a huge irony here for me. I called out such unconscious bias once, which was actually perpetrated by a black Welsh speaker against an Asian from South Wales. She called me a racist for calling her out! And Reddit being Reddit, she was then upvoted and I down
I won’t forget that. It still intensely annoys me. So thanks Mali for taking my side here.
DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Was that to do with them being Asian or being from South Wales?
AnnieByniaeth@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
That doesn’t make a huge amount of difference, especially with young people. One would never assume that a young person from south Wales doesn’t speak Welsh. They quite likely do.