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There is a reason for the overwhelming number of castles in Wales. That's what it took to subjugate us.

Summers in Wales are like anywhere else in North Europe. They can be sunny, warm and long, but you take your chances! We prefer to be called "Welsh" as we *hate* being called English. "British" we'll put up with. Cymraeg is the name we give ourselves. Cymru, the Welsh name for Wales, means "fellow countryman" or even more simply "Us". Wales is a name given us by the Anglo Saxons in the Dark Ages. It means "foreigners" in Anglo Saxon. For Welsh music check out Canol Lan sung by Cerys Matthews here on RU-vid as well as Dacw Nghariad by Eve Goodman. Beautiful and heartfelt.

I’m welsh and subscribed to you,I’m so glad you’ve done this video because a lot of foreigners think the uk is England and people don’t realise that there is divides between England,wales,Scotland Btw we like to be called welsh not English,if you called a welsh person English it wouldn’t go down very well 😂 City’s have better diversity than the small towns or valleys but welsh people are very friendly,Cardiff is very diverse

King Arthur was originally welsh, from the oral.poetry mabinogion.

It rains in Wales. ALL. THE. TIME. Also the red flower the male voice choir were all wearing was a remembrance poppy: people wear them in Europe and other countries to commemorate Remembrance Day in November which honours those lost in war, especially WW1.

Another fact : Wales is the only country in the world who's capital city,Cardiff voted _against_ having its own devolved government - not once - but twice!😮

The weather in Wales is like England but worse it rains more, its stormer more and unless you break up the winter by going abroad, it's very difficult to stay positive as its, dark cloudy wet and windy and it can last like that day after day for months, in 2015 in West Wales we had 87 days of continuous rain

Ive lived my whole life in one area on the coast of north wales, there's a castle like 200 yards from where im sitting.. But i still used to run home from school every day to make sure i didnt miss the intro to fresh prince. Haha

Coloured girl, don't know, ask Shirley Bassey. Born in Tiger bay, Cardiff

Wales is a lovely land. I live about 20 miles from the border, and love popping across. We get all our water from their rain and lakes. The guy with a bald spot was a monk! The ones who followed the Catholic faith used to shave the top of their heads, so the fringe of hair represented Christ's crown of thorns. It's called a Tonsure. The decapitated person was Saint Winifrid herself. To maintain a vow of chastity, she fled from a would be suitor, who chased her and lopped her head off for rejecting him. Where the head fell a miraculous spring bubbled up, which is now St. Winifrid 's Well. Also miraculously, she survived the experience and paintings of her often show her with a scar around her neck. Wales is a land of legends. There are mountains in the north, high hills in the south, and a fringe of urban cities, Swansea, Cardiff, and Newport, along the south coast, which was known for coal mines and steel works. Up in the mountains of the north, they used to quarry slate for roofs, and run it down to the ports on narrow gauge railways. A lot of these are preserved as tourist lines now. Check out The Little trains of Wales.

the red flower is a poppy that all of the UK wears in November to remember the fallen of the wars we have had.

6:45 - yeah, and it's pretty cool. Cardiff Castle, in particular, is part of the city centre. It's open to tourists, and in the summer they hold concerts in the castle grounds, too. I've been to a few there and it's awesome going to an open-air gig with the castle in the background. Also, the "Milennium Stadium" is mentioned here -it hasn't been called that in some time. It is now the Principality Stadium. It's cool seeing people taking an interest in Wales and Welsh culture like you have! As far as diversity goes, probably about the same as, the rest of the UK, maybe whiter in small towns and villages. I went to university in Swansea, and there were a LOT of international students there (the halls of residence I lived in early on had a lot of Malaysian students as Swansea had a good chemical engineering department). I grew up in a smallish village until I went there, bit of a culture shock for me!

Wales is quite diverse. It’s got a mixture of races and religions as the UK is probably one if the most ethnically diverse places. Asian British is one of the largest ethnicities in the UK.

Nudity in all of Europe is not an issue compared to the US. I was suprised they didn't feature the Welsh language

Just found this now xx.. It's very mild for October x.. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿..we dicribe ourselves as Welsh first then British xx Look up Paul Robeson .. A black American singer and his association with Wales. Xx

Sir George Everest actually pronounced his name as Eevrest. When I was a kid, my mother would make herself little suppers, sometimes I thought she was saying she was making 'cowheel', she did eat odd things. It was years later when I realised she was saying 'cawl', a Welsh stew.

You have your sheep and lambs mixed up, the lambs are the babies, mutton comes from adult sheep (I am veggie). He mispronounced the castle it is (Car nar von). Welsh is spoken in Wales, it is taught in the schools. Mount Snowdon is the highest mountain in Wales. Wales was the only part of Great Britain not to kill its witches, they kept them as "wise women". The Welsh are very superstitious with many legends.

It’s actually not as cold as it should be in the UK because of ocean currents. It’s literally the same latitude as Alaska! But in London, for example, it rarely gets cold enough to snow.

We certainly don't go by "English". Welsh or Cymraeg will do. British too, as we're on the island of Britain and historically the "Britons" were the Romano-Celtic Welsh.

Wales do have city life I'm from Swansea 246,000 live here and our capital Cardiff has 485,000 , the south of wales is more for mordern city life , mid wales has a lot small towns/communities and green Countryside full of sheep cows etc , north wales has a different vibe it has huge mountains like Snowdon in the Snowdonia national park , the towns up north have a mix of old stone cottages , Medieval buildings and great castles , but it also has a lot of modern buildings mixed into them too north wales is like a mix of medieval and mordern infrastructure and you will find the most welsh speakers up there , if you go south west of wales to Pembrokeshire it feels like, your in Spain a place called Tenby tropical tortoise water , colourful buildings and a Harbor full of boats, and stunning beaches surrounded by flowers and greenery wales has something for everyone in this small compact country, if I would recommend anywhere in wales it would be Tenby

Skin colour seems to other you, more than the people of Wales. I know of a family of Chinese descent who siarad cymraig better than I do ( speak welsh )

What do you think lambs are?

Britain dates back to over two thousand years plus👍

Lambs are the baby sheep.

Lamb is a baby sheep, the adult sheep don’t tend to be eaten much but sometimes and it’s called mutton. Makes me sad to be honest as I’m vegan, but each to their own

I would love you to look into children in need. Which happened every year on November. Celebs do stuff to raise money but it’s on tv so they do comedy skits etc. i love children in need because the British people donate money and o think it shows how charitable the uk is

by me the rain either burns or freezes in the summer and in the winter it freezes but we still get no snow

Watch the documentary by Huw Edwards on owain glyndwr the true prince of Wales he battled the English for 13years truly in depth fabulous documentary we as a indigenous nation pushed by the Saxons normans and English you will learn the real truth you will love it

Just put it this way, new college Oxford university was founded in 1379. It was new at the time. As part of its charter it has to maintain the city wall in its ground. Yes they are maintained from 1379.

For a time, there was a tradition in my area of Wales (south coast, near Swansea) that on Christmas Day people would go out for a charity swim in the sea. Yeah, nope. Never did it. A friend of mine did for years. "Bracing" he called it. Idiotic would be a better choice. But it raised a lot of money for charity over the years. Not sure if it still happens.

The chef at 4:21 is called Dai Davies (pronounced like dye) he was the Head chef at the Conrah Country House Hotel Aberystwyth Mid Wales, I worked in the same kitchen as him.

Siwmae (sh-my) - Hi 😊 great reaction - great mariners- how about the Welsh prince who sailed with a group of Welsh to America in 1170 founding a welsh speaking native american peoples

The diversity is pretty good, especially in university towns, and we are becoming more diverse all the time.

TIL Ryan Giggs is black (well, mixed-race) Shirley Bassey is probably the most iconic black (mixed-race) Welsh person.

We date back to the 800's? Welsh DNA in the British isles dates back a minimum of 10,000 years. Towards the end of the ice age is the furthest back Welsh DNA in the British isles is known, but we may have been here longer than that.

That red flower is a Poppy for remembrance day the daffodil is the flower of Wales and the leek is the vegetable of Wales that we used to wear into battle to tell us apart from the English

Welsh lamb with lava bread

There are far more but they can’t name everything. Be unfair if they had. Tiny country, Massive impact. A Elder American senator once stated that no nation in comparison to its size has had more impact on America than that of Wales. American education system is the reason why many Americans don’t realise this. They get taught the Welsh are some how English.

Cardiff is Wales' capitol city. We have a huge castle right alongside the main street.

6:24 : the Welsh dragon I actually a threat to ( I think ) England! I've heard it from a RU-vid documentary!

9:35 The weather is horrible most of the time but when it's amazing weather its beautiful

Honey, I did 6 months at Cyprus as a UN soldier in 1986, my picure is taken in the buffertzon, heard coming back to Sweden that I looked like Tom Cruise, didn´t know who he was, spending my time at the bufferzone at Cyprus.

I'm from south Wales in Caerphilly where we have the second biggest castle in the UK and I think Europe

I don't think you know what "lamb" is... The meat taken from a sheep is called mutton when it is over two years old. The meat called "lamb" is from the cute baby sheep you are looking at whom are also called lamb if they are under the age of one. If you eat lamb, you are basically eating baby sheep. You're welcome.

It depends were you go the little villagers are mostly Welsh ppl but like Cardiff is very mixed

Lamb are the baby's mutton is sheep lol

i'm welsh in wales and a big hi from here.

as someone who likes to pretend to be a marine biologist, I feel like I was mislead. also, lamb are the babies, sheep are the adults and the meat is called 'mutton', but I think they raise them for the wool.

Oh, I didn't realise you were born in Nigeria. You haven't retained any of your West African, or the distinctive Nigerian accent. Are you Ibo, Hausa, Benin, Yoruba, or what? 🇳🇬 btw, you do realise that lambs are young sheep. Mutton, lamb, goat, and kid are all popular staple foods in Nigeria. You must have eaten it back home.

Cardiff is as diverse as you can imagine. We are a port. Of course we are super diverse.

We date back to the 800s? No, a lot longer ago than that. Thousands of years.

We go by welsh, not english

I'm not coming at you here, and it's by no means your fault that you chose this clip to inform yourself about Wales. This is pretty lame, the narrator has barely scratched the surface. He's typically gone for the stereotype, sheep, leeks, rugby, welsh cakes, castles and Tom Jones, as for skinny dipping, that's hardly reflective of our culture. For one, he forgot to mention the Welsh language, (it has it's own alphabet /pronunciations), said to be one of the oldest in Europe, dating back 4,000 years or so. Before the invaders came to these shores, Wales and most of England, up to the Scottish Borders spoke a derivation of the Welsh language. The national Eisteddfod, (said to date back to the 12th century), an annual festival comprising of competion and performance of traditional song, dance and poetry. There's so much more to Wales, as there is to Ireland's, Scotland's and England's history. Again, I'm not coming at you, but what you've just watched is a bit of fun. You have a great channel here, and I wish you every success with it.

They export the sheep to France. Top dollar market, Welsh Lamb is very expensive, especially salt water lamb. In Wales lamb is a luxury. Crazy.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Have a look for the mari lwyd new year tradition from wales

Wales is far wetter than parts of england. The south and west coasts get the brunt of weather systems that hit us. This year had been unusually dry..... then november came along and I don't think we've had a dry day. there's been all sorts of flooding. You should visit when we're having bad weather, especially when it's windy. You can experience the horizontal rain that renders any kind of protection virtually useless.

The tower of Wrexham church was copied by the Welsh entrepreneur elihu Yale, patron of yale college usa

Caerphilly Castle is my home castle,have a look

Currently, one in 10 people who climb Everest end up dead. It is a bit (a lot) above the so called 'death line' at 20'000 feet. Beyond which the Oxygen level is too low to live.

THAT LITTLE FLUFFY FURBALL IS THE LAMB, DELICIOUS.

You are confusing “diversity” with colour. Welsh speakers are a minority/diversity and any people of different coloured skin speak Welsh/Cymraeg.

England has prehistoric history with the oldest skeleton dating to 500,000 years ago. The ancient Brits lived there from 800 BC known as the iron age. This is what is taught in schools. As for Wales sone say they descend from the Central European beaker and arrived 2000 BC or they are Trojans who settled in the North of Wales. The forensic historians Wilson & Blackett believe the Welsh are descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. Historians have differing opinions. I live in the County of Kent on the coast and we have 30 castles.

The guy who got behedded is the green knight. There are atleast two films about this one from 2021 and an older one staring sean connary as the green knight. As to diversity you have to remember that migrant comunities tend to move where there is opportunity and also where there are existing ethnic minority comunites. So its OK in the cities of south wales but beyond that you arent going to see very many non whites. As time goes on you will get successful people moving out to the countryside to get out of the rat run of the cites but rural wales is probobly further than most would be willing to go; exept for those who are just done with people and want to be isolated as they can get.

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus/Happy Saint David's day you bloody Heavens!! 😆

Mutton ia adult sheep is cheeper than lamb but can be a bit tough to eat

We have the most castles in Wales because the English built them to keep the Welsh in line. If you think of us it should be Welsh or British never English. Good reaction to this video, his pronounciation isn't great but very informative.

There any many castles in wales, some built by Edward 1 some much older!

The Welsh people were formulised in 383 AD

Many towns and cities throughout Wales has its own castle but then Wales does have more castles than any other country.

Lamb are the babies, sheep are the adults known as mutton

There more castles in Wales than any where else

800's??? Roman invasion of uk in 246 a.d.

Find a choir singing their national anthem _Hen Wlad fyng Nghadau_ (Old Land of my Fathers) 🙂

We have hot hot hot summers lately averaging around 30 to 35 to 39 c we are Welsh which is celtic but doing my dna I have discovered I'm 45 percent viking so I do still say I'm Welsh and a celt but I have lived in England Wiltshire for all my childhood so now have an English accent which doesn't go down very well here lol x and we are just British I wish we were just Welsh but not yet however we will be in the next 4 years I'm sure x

Castles in Wales - how else did the English keep the Welsh down?

argh what a manglisation of that town.

My I suggest that after being in ice cold water for ten minutes, there might not be much to "check out".

Welsh lamb is ver expensive, because its the best tasting in the world. New Zealand lamb is pretty good, but not as good as Welsh imo. The narrator can't pronounce Welsh words. Most people cant. And thats the name of a town. Britain has buildings older than the USA, not the land mass obviously, but the creation of the USA as a country. Our weather is ok, bit wet like the rest of the UK, but when we get a hot summer day is like Spain.

Lamb is expensive here too.

Do you know you can go to the top of snowdon by train?

I am welsh :)

No we don’t go by english are you kidding why would we

Sorry David U am nearly blind si struggle to see to type write and read and watch anything hence typos Watch Welsh narratives in Welsh vudeus fir better prpmimcyustipms the f Welsh castles etc Thank you for your patience and sorry again for typos U cannot see well enough to correct orcedyt errors sadly

Lamb is sheep

I'm welsh, Welsh leisure centre is a sheep tied to a lampost. Lol