Why are English-sounding Welsh people much more commonplace than English-sounding Scots?

[Tooting Carmen]

While there is a lot of discussion (including on this very forum) about non-white people with colonial complexes, there is far less discussion about White people with colonial complexes.

[Andullero]

Far longer time under Whitehall's yoke perhaps?

[Tooting Carmen]

Far longer time under Whitehall's yoke perhaps?

That is certainly part of the explanation. While clearly not the same thing as OWD/White wannabeism, let us not underestimate how debilitating English wannabeism has been for many of its current and former White colonies.

[Andullero]

That is certainly part of the explanation. While clearly not the same thing as OWD/White wannabeism, let us not underestimate how debilitating English wannabeism has been for many of its current and former White colonies.

Things went up a notch when the Tudors, which hailed from the region's elite, turned Anglo so to speak.

[Tooting Carmen]

Things went up a notch when the Tudors, which hailed from the region's elite, turned Anglo so to speak.

Jamie Roberts (who we have discussed before) has a typical upper-middle class South Wales accent (more specifically, Cardiff accent). Would you guess him as Welsh if you didn't know? He is the one being interviewed:

[Andullero]

Jamie Roberts (who we have discussed before) has a typical upper-middle class South Wales accent (more specifically, Cardiff accent). Would you guess him as Welsh if you didn't know? He is the one being interviewed:

Yeah, but I'd say that a bit of stereotype would enter into the guessing, because of his being one of those "dark Brit" types, of sorts.

[Tooting Carmen]

Yeah, but I'd say that a bit of stereotype would enter into the guessing, because of his being one of those "dark Brit" types, of sorts.

I mean the way he speaks, not the way he looks. Another example of an upper-middle class South Wales accent would be Roberts' teammate Alun Wyn Jones, who hails from my city of Swansea:

[Andullero]

I mean the way he speaks, not the way he looks. Another example of an upper-middle class South Wales accent would be Roberts' teammate Alun Wyn Jones, who hails from my city of Swansea:

Would you say that Cornwall has been completely Anglicized at this point despite the dialect revival movement there?

[Tooting Carmen]

Would you say that Cornwall has been completely Anglicized at this point despite the dialect revival movement there?

Pretty much, yes.

[NSXD60]

The English should have said to the Scots: Awright, keep your country, but for God's sake quit torturing us with that Satanic accent!