People assume I can't speak Welsh because I'm not white

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• Alk@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People assume I can’t speak Chinese because I’m a white American. They are correct.

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  • sepiroth154@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Invalid comparison. It would be more like you being born and raised in China and people defaulting to English all the time.

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    • Alk@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It was a joke, not a real comparison. I just happen to not be able to speak any other language.

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• MyFriendGodzilla@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I dont know if i’d expect any white people to speak Welsh either 😆

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• Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean, sure, but I think it’s understandable that they assume that. Not many white Welsh people speak welsh, let alone POC. Surely you can just speak Welsh at them and surprise and delight them?

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I feel like this attitude is bigoted in more than one way:

  • it’s anti-POC for obvious reasons
  • it’s anti-Welsh because it implicitly assumes nobody who isn’t ethnically Welsh would have a reason to learn the language (because it’s dying or whatever).

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  • curiousaur@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is it bigoted to think: no people assume you don’t speak welsh because why the fuck would you?

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, living in Wales is the traditional reason

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• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Letting people assume your linguistic skills is a superpower.

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• Gentryfried@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Doesn’t seem like an unreasonable assumption, Wales is mostly white and almost all white outside of Cardiff, Swansea, and maybe Newport and Wrexham. And I have heard they only push it in schools to the west of Caerdiff

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean most white people can’t speak Welsh.

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• 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.

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  • DaGreenGobbo@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Was that to do with them being Asian or being from South Wales?

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    • 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.

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• blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People assume I can’t speak a different language because I’m a humble white collar worker

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• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t assume anyone can speak Welsh. I’ve never even heard any.

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• TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People assume I can’t speak Welsh either.

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• mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People assume I have listened to Nirvana because I wear their t-shirts. Mad, innit?

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is being brown the same as wearing a band t shirt? What a stupid analogy

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    • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Serious question. Why was the first thought that came to your mind “Gee I think that person is being serious what a stupid analogy let me tell them”. Like, why does your mind go there?

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• mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  White people do not even exists

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• HeroicBillyBishop@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  People assume I can’t speak french, cause I am anglo

  It’s fun when they realize

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