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Originally Posted by Carnyx
It's not my opinion, I don't consider them foreign to the Breton identity, on the contrary, I think they are as Bretons as Western ones.
In regard to Gallos and what you said, what I mean is that you don't have to speak Breton to be and feel Breton if you accept the Romance influence in Upper Brittany.
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Of course, and I agree with you here. That's what I said :
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Originally Posted by Cirrus
Brittany has always been bi-cultural, and it would be sensless IMO, to separate the Celtic and the Roman part of this country.
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What I meant when I said
"I don't think that there is a Gallo identity stricto sensu" was that Eastern Brittany, with its Romance culture, is just as Breton as the Western part of the country. There are just two parts of the same land, and I don't separate a Breton (Western) and a Gallo identity, since both are our common legacy.
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Originally Posted by Carnyx
On the other hand, if you (be it Bretonnant or Gallo) identify Brittany with a certain language, a certain culture and so forth, then there is a problem. Perhaps a core problem of your cause?
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Yes, and that was a problem in the genesis of Breton nationalism. If nationalists wanted an only Breton-speaking Brittany, they should have rather fight for a
Western-Breton nationalism than a nationalism for the whole Brittany.
And this is still a problem with Breton nationalism nowadays. I'm not a Breton militant myself, I'm only a "anti-Jacobin", but I think that there should be a debate on this point [the language] between them (the other big problem being, of course, that the Breton movement is mostly on the left-side of the politcal spectrum - but that's another story).