Sorry Terry but we will have to disagree. People have claimed that hanging a sign saying English language only is racist when this is England, part of the UK and the native tongue is English. If you live in France then learn French. If you don't choose to then make no complaint about being alienated. Wales is part of the UK and is controlled by the UK government so the native tongue is English. To speak Welsh or any other language excluding non speakers is discriminatory.Originally Posted by Terry D
Rob - as one who has experienced racism, I assure you that someone preferring to speak their native language in front of someone who doesn't understand that language, is absolutely NOT racism.
It's perhaps discourteous, even rude, but it isn't racism.
You can be Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or English but you are still a UK citizen with a native language it being English.I like my family were born here, my Name is French, Hugenouet Protistant from South West France , forced to leave due to there relgion by Louis the 14th, my Mothers Family MC Carthy from West Cork - Galoglass and had to leave like so many due to the famine of the 1840s, , here grand parents on her mums side were German ,Hamblin like the town in Westphalia, Mercenaries who came to fight for Charles the 1st in the Civil Wars and stayed. Now despite all that mix I am Welsh/ British and proud of that. My Parliament -devolved in the Uk is hardly racism, so I find youre arguments at best baffaling
