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Your response to them speaking in their own language is pretty childish - and actually nationalistic ("why can't they just speak English?") despite your own views about it. Maybe they just want to? Maybe they're interested in the history and sound and feeling of it - before another country came along and wiped it out.
No, it's not. They don't really speak gaelic, they never spoke it or were interested in it before. They have suddenly decided they want to start speaking it because of the rampant nationalism being whipped up by the SNP. If they were native speakers of gaelic and just wanted to speak it fine, and I don't care if they do, but in this context it is so forced and painful. And it is designed to deliberately exclude those who do not speak gaelic.
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If they were native speakers of gaelic and just wanted to speak it fine, and I don't care if they do, but in this context it is so forced and painful. And it is designed to deliberately exclude those who do not speak gaelic.
What do you care? Let them alone, let them do what they want, stop trying to make them English - An entire bloody empire was built on that premise, which I don't think anyone would look back with admiration on.
dubkev
Maybe because a different group of people (identity, race, nation, whatever you want to call it - they exist and to deny that is burying your head in the sand when it comes to human history) are making decisions about them that are detrimental to them. I'd be pissed off if someone from England wanted to put a nuclear missle base down the road from me.
This attitude towards UK minority 'nations' from English-centric or even London-centric commentators and politicos is exactly what kicked off the long Irish independence campaign. You're seeing things through a very narrow prism. Your response to them speaking in their own language is pretty childish - and actually nationalistic ("why can't they just speak English?") despite your own views about it. Maybe they just want to? Maybe they're interested in the history and sound and feeling of it - before another country came along and wiped it out.