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Originally Posted by Cymro
No they wouldn't have to be Indopnesians born in Wales - if they regarded themselves as being Welsh, not one person should take that away from them.
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And if I consider myself a Native American because I dress up as a brave and put dream-catchers around my home, you wouldn't take that from me either, right? I appreciate the sentiment, but I cannot change reality.
My origins are not with the Sioux, the Cherokee or the Apache no matter how much I might want it to be. My lineage belongs here on the other sid eof the world. My ancestors lved and died here. My family history is here, tied to this land and this people. Living somewhere else and adopting the customs of another cannot change what I intrinsically am.
Maybe you could make these Indoensians "honourary Welsh" as a token of hospitality and friendship. But you cannot seriously claim they are Brythonic Celts of the stock of Glendower.
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I'm glad you agree with my comments that religion does not define a person's nationality - this is however what the author claimed, and this is what I attacked.
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I disagree with his comments in this.
However, if he said that Islam is a religion alien and undesirable in Wales, I would agree. But the religion a person practises doesn't mean they stop being Welsh anymore than speaking Arabic & going to the local Mosque would make you a Saudi
