Xenophobe's Guide to Welsh [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Richards, John

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9781902825465: Xenophobe's Guide to Welsh [Lingua Inglese]

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ISBN 10: 1902825462 ISBN 13: 9781902825465

Casa editrice: Oval Books, 1999

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Highlights the unique character and behavior of the nation. Frank, irreverent, funny--almost guaranteed to cure Xenophobia.

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L'autore:

John Winterson Richards has Welsh parents and was born in Cardiff, the capital of Wales, in no less a place than Saint David’s Hospital.

Despite this most promising start, he turned out badly. It was soon discovered that he possessed a singing voice that would offend a frog, he enjoyed drinking French red wines even when beer was available, and the nicest thing ever said about his attempt to turn himself into a tolerably mediocre loose-head prop forward was that his ‘enthusiasm for rugby greatly exceeds his skill’. Obviously he was unfit for the company of civilised people. He was therefore exiled to England.

Whilst suffering this, the greatest punishment that can be inflicted on any Welshman, he got himself educated and studied to become a lawyer (being too lazy for medicine and completely unsuited for the Church). Living with the English for several years so broadened his mind that he became a rabid Welsh nationalist.

Finally overcome with hiraeth, he returned home and set up a management consultancy with the aim of bringing enterprise and prosperity to his fellow countrymen. Since few of them appear to be interested in enterprise or prosperity, he has had only limited success to date. This is probably just as well: had he actually succeeded, he would have caused far more offence than his singing ever did.

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'The dominant feature of a Welshman's childhood is his Mam. The traditional Welsh Mam is a combination of the gentleness of a saint with the degree of flexibility usually associated with the average mountain (and a Welsh mountain at that, formed of proper igneous rock - none of your sandstone rubbish).'
Xenophobia is an irrational fear of foreigners, probably justified, always understandable.
Xenophobe's Guides - an irreverent look at the beliefs and foibles of nations, almost guaranteed to cure Xenophobia.

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