I dont know if i'd expect any white people to speak Welsh either 😆

I mean, sure, but I think it's understandable that they assume that. Not many white Welsh people speak welsh, let alone POC. Surely you can just speak Welsh at them and surprise and delight them?

Letting people assume your linguistic skills is a superpower.

I need to learn more languages.

I feel like this attitude is bigoted in more than one way:

• it's anti-POC for obvious reasons
• it's anti-Welsh because it implicitly assumes nobody who isn't ethnically Welsh would have a reason to learn the language (because it's dying or whatever).

People assume I can't speak a different language because I'm a humble white collar worker

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I mean most white people can't speak Welsh.

I don't assume anyone can speak Welsh. I've never even heard any.

People assume I can't speak Chinese because I'm a white American. They are correct.

People assume I can't speak Welsh either.

Actress Mali Ann Rees said inclusivity was key to encouraging more people to speak Welsh, with "no excuse" for unconscious bias.

There's a huge irony here for me. I called out such unconscious bias once, which was actually perpetrated by a black Welsh speaker against an Asian from South Wales. She called me a racist for calling her out! And Reddit being Reddit, she was then upvoted and I down

I won't forget that. It still intensely annoys me. So thanks Mali for taking my side here.

People assume I can't speak french, cause I am anglo

It's fun when they realize

White people do not even exists