Politically they're pretty neglected as other posters have said. Thatcher started a bunch of de industrialisation projects that took the country away from mining and into the service sector. To be fair, Cardiff is a really nice place now thanks to those projects.
In terms of actual racism, yeah there's the whole sheep shagger thing but it's just casual ribs, usually played up thanks to sporting rivalries in rugby and stuff so no one really minds it too much. Maybe I just don't notice it because I'm half welsh and half English.
The Wales vs England rugby rival is very interesting though, because it was always a match of miners and valley folk vs privately educated upper class men. Squidge Rugby has a video on it, if you're interested. Rugby is pretty integral to knowing the first thing about welsh culture. https://youtu.be/9anb82h-DJA
Yeah, Cardiff and Swansea are pretty nice but mid wales and North Wales in particular are absolutely fucked still. Even the Senedd admit they need a plan for North Wales redevelopment because it’s full of towns of poor as fuck people with no hope for the future. I would know.
Oh yeah for sure. Even away from mid and north Wales there's fucked areas. My welsh side is from Newport and lived in Barry for a long time. Very poor places that are totally neglected.
Politically they're pretty neglected as other posters have said. Thatcher started a bunch of de industrialisation projects that took the country away from mining and into the service sector. To be fair, Cardiff is a really nice place now thanks to those projects.
In terms of actual racism, yeah there's the whole sheep shagger thing but it's just casual ribs, usually played up thanks to sporting rivalries in rugby and stuff so no one really minds it too much. Maybe I just don't notice it because I'm half welsh and half English.
The Wales vs England rugby rival is very interesting though, because it was always a match of miners and valley folk vs privately educated upper class men. Squidge Rugby has a video on it, if you're interested. Rugby is pretty integral to knowing the first thing about welsh culture. https://youtu.be/9anb82h-DJA
Yeah, Cardiff and Swansea are pretty nice but mid wales and North Wales in particular are absolutely fucked still. Even the Senedd admit they need a plan for North Wales redevelopment because it’s full of towns of poor as fuck people with no hope for the future. I would know.
Oh yeah for sure. Even away from mid and north Wales there's fucked areas. My welsh side is from Newport and lived in Barry for a long time. Very poor places that are totally neglected.