Used to be that taking the piss out of the Welsh as stupid sheep fuckers was pretty common on pretty much every show the BBC did. It's not as common anymore but you can still see it used anytime the BBC does something set in Wales.
When the Welsh assembly was formed there was a pretty big political pushback in England and to this day English media is still obsessed with making Wales look like a shit hole despite it being in a better state right now than much of England.
The English really don't like the bilingual signs and many news papers are still publishing op-eds about how confusing they are. Like they've been a thing for like thirty years at this point, get over it.
In my experience growing up in a former Welsh mining community, the people of Wales don't really hate the English for the jokes about sheep fucking, but rather the historical repression of Welsh culture.
Edit: forgot to mention, individual English I've met haven't had negative opinions about Wales and the Welsh, the dislike of the Welsh is mostly a right wing media thing. Some labour members I've met are even a little jealous of how capable Welsh labour is in comparison to English labour.
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Used to be that taking the piss out of the Welsh as stupid sheep fuckers was pretty common on pretty much every show the BBC did. It's not as common anymore but you can still see it used anytime the BBC does something set in Wales.
When the Welsh assembly was formed there was a pretty big political pushback in England and to this day English media is still obsessed with making Wales look like a shit hole despite it being in a better state right now than much of England.
The English really don't like the bilingual signs and many news papers are still publishing op-eds about how confusing they are. Like they've been a thing for like thirty years at this point, get over it.
In my experience growing up in a former Welsh mining community, the people of Wales don't really hate the English for the jokes about sheep fucking, but rather the historical repression of Welsh culture.
Edit: forgot to mention, individual English I've met haven't had negative opinions about Wales and the Welsh, the dislike of the Welsh is mostly a right wing media thing. Some labour members I've met are even a little jealous of how capable Welsh labour is in comparison to English labour.
To add to your point about the Welsh/English labour difference for anyone whose interested https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_Red_Water
Good effort post
Thanks.