• Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
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    8 days ago

    I’m sure for some (sad and backwards) people it is a racially motivated position - but for many others I think it has more to do with cultural and geographical proximity.

    But then our elected representatives go and fuck up the Middle East… I don’t know.

    As an aside, do you know my favourite rugby chant? I’ve heard it at Wales v England rugby games:

    “I’d rather wear a turban than a rose, I’d rather wear a turban than a rose, I’d rather wear a turban, I’d rather wear a turban, I’d rather wear a turban than a rose.”

    I have a Russian friend who lives in (south) Wales and when he first arrived (10-15 years ago) he couldn’t understand non-white people being Welsh. Years later he realised that a green person born in Newport is already more Welsh than he’ll ever be.

    The UK is a very contradictory bastard union that has - so far - somehow managed to stay in one piece.