unkown files is back!

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Nrrgh, I want so much to make Welsh jokes but I'm arguing for the other side now, and rightly so. They do have a distinct ancestry, race isn't purely based on skin colour or even genetics but on common values and cultural mores. If they want to be a nation, good luck to them. Speaking Welsh as a first language does set them aside somewhat.

(area is probably as big as his welsh nation)
Southern Louisiana has cajuns and creoles I suggest you read about it.
Language, common values, cultural mores, traditions and specific appearance traits.

I have been out on a shrimp boat when those fuckers start talking, it isn't french.

Actually, maybe not relevant entirely but something I looked into recently for various reasons... if you want to try to go the genetic route of defining race, don't - it's just not worth it. Basically, you get to the point where you either have to accept there either are thousands of different races or no such thing as race.

No, race is pretty clear.

As you allude to in your post consolidating two local areas, it makes more sense to define nationality by attitude and location than by appearance; the former being aspects in which the Welsh certainly differ.

So does north and south Louisiana. Each state of the union is very different with different laws, morality, ethics, heritage, primary religion and geography. We just did not have people build shit on it for 1000s of years, the native Americans were mobile.

Also, no one is making fun of Louisiana, you're the only one who has so far gone down the 'my country is better than everyone else's countries' line.

Don't twist my post. I didn't say that and that is all in your head. I didn't say america is bettar and I didn't say anyone was making fun of coonasses.

[AF]

Most people vastly under estimate the size of european countries simply because the USA spans the whole width of the North American continent. While the USA is indeed much larger, the perception of the difference is usually wildly out of line in either direction.



However the idea of using size as a metric is utterly pointless and hopeless flawed logic.

This is basically saying The nearest prison is more important than einstein because:

• Einstein is one person and the prison is hundreds
• Einstein is not fat enough to take up the same area than the maximum security prison
• A prison has more varying culture than a single person

By these arguments we can also say canada is more important than the USA, has a bigger military, more culture, more money, and is generally more civilized.

You must remember that europe has more money than the USA, and although each individual country cannot surpass the US alone, there are a lot of rich countries in europe, and they have many more people, and they have a lot of tech and military clout.



Greenland gon kick yo ass WW3

And even if they didn't, a tiny country with a hundred people in it could easily be more important than a country with half the worlds population and a quarter of the globe under its belt.

May I also point out that the UK is not a land full of white pastey people, inner city london has more black people than white, it can be quite multicultural here.

[Crayfish]

O...k... well I am aware of the Cajun and Creole people, I agree that they are races in the same sense as the Welsh, although unlike the Welsh they no longer administrate their homeland.

A genetic definition of race is most certainly not clear.

I am not entirely sure why you're defending South Louisiana / America so hard, as I never once attacked them and don't intend to. They're fine and distinct places. My argument was Wales is similarly distinct, as you stated several times that it was either too small or too similar to England to be a nation.

Not convinced we're debating on the same wavelength here, but in conclusion, the Welsh are a distinct people and attacking them based on nationality alone is racist.

[AF]

The welsh have their own assembly, parliament, regional government, they have their own laws and administration too. They are not simply a people with a tag 'welsh' on them. Granted anything London says overrules cardiff as the welsh assembly cannot contradict common law.

[Pxtl]

I would like to nominate this thread for being the most pointless and stupid flamewar I've seen on the Spring forums to date. And that's saying something.

[PicassoCT]

AF, i like it how you coldrage through this Thread, silencing the MeBiga&Betters for good... there should be a Forumbutton, report this Post to AF...


And Pxtl nominated it for the Hall of Flame...

[AF]

+1 +1

[Hoi]

=2

[AF]

incorrect

=10

binary ftw!

[TradeMark]

my dad is better than your dad

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/yawns, now that I have a clear picture. you people are wrong.

what you call a race is a MERE CULTURE

[Crayfish]

So to be a race you have to have different colour skin? :p

Speaking a different language, having thousands of years of history and a distinct national identity - that's nothing if you're white!

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So to be a race you have to have different colour skin? :p

Genetic predispositions, enhanced resistances, physical characteristic like hair, eye shape, face shape and YES skin color which has a lot to do with the way said race may or may not handle different environments. What are you 12, it isn't about just skin color, to suggest that is colossally ignorant.

Speaking a different language,

Just culture, people are not BORN speaking welsh, japanese etc.

having thousands of years of history

If you think that the americas have no history past the most recent 200 years I want to know, do you use a pyramid or swan shape for your tinfoil hat.

and a distinct national identity

Those are traping of society. If I transplanted two english babies to and island and they somehow survived(don't analyze it, they are that lucky) they will then construct a make shift version of english society, culture and architecture. that is what you are suggesting.

- that's nothing if you're white!

if you like to think ONLY of skin color sure. There are different predispositions for Asiatic, Caucasian and African based genetic lines.

[Neddie]

Uh-huh no.