Myself, I think that 'racially/ethnically' my roots are more mediterranean than middle European, I am short and dark which makes me more the Iberian Celt, but still Celt but of 'Mixed Blood'. My old mate Toni Lewis R.I.P. however, was tall and fair but you want find many of such in Wales, even an high percentage of pobl Gwynedd are short but not so short and dark as pobl Cardi. I guess we are a right old mix really and I go along with the idea that the original Celtic groups were a warrior aristocracy that enriched by the salt trade were able to sweep across Europe and bring under them and into their Socio Economic and cultural world a number of lesser and defeated tribes. I have no doubt that when this Warrior Aristocracy reached West Britain what was to become Cymru/Wales they conquored a previously settled 'Iron Age' mix of prehistoric peoples as 'Beaker Folk' and not least in the South of Wales, us Iberians.
We Iberians immediatly run off into the Brecon Beacons to become 'pwca' (see the matter of Iron in Welsh Folk Lore), though for the most part stuck it out in the valleys to become 'Celtic Silurians'. Essentially I guess it is a matter of a 'Cultural' shift and acceptence that is the key to what is Celtic or not Celtic, this can be a matter of 'material culture' and otherwise as Socio - Economic concerns. Generally though, it comes down to the languages being spoken by what becomes detirmined a people as 'Celtic'. Of course, it can quite simply be now a matter of what you wish to identify with and that includes all the baggage that might come along with later Celtic Revivalism/Romanticism, fin!
I guess as a product of the modern age in many ways I am 'anglicised/acculturalised' as most others, this is possibly made more so that I am not a fluent native Welsh Speaker and do not particularly 'buy in' to present day contemporary 'Welsh Culture. However, if I have to personally choose a greater cultural influnce in a very broad sense then certainly I identify with what is or what may be percieved as 'Celtic Culture/History', past and present. That includes seeking to even identify with our older Celtic Religions, even though that too might be much an invention, as anyway is much of accepted contemporary 'Cymric Culture'. Such being post Roman Christian, Victorian and product of a contemporary Welsh Language Music Industry, in fact a pre 'Sixties' Canu Cymru the hymns aside, the popular stuff all appears very 'Country and Western' to me. Whatever, I guess it all boils down to what we want to be we will be despite the best intentions of proffessional historians and archaelogists to give us nuetral labels.
Anyway, join the debate kicked off of late again by the Western Mail, in it's Welsh History Month Initiative, see links below but before you do. Note the following article On Celts Calling Themselves 'Celts' and Related Questions by John T.Koch in Studia Celtica XLIII (2009). I am sure there will be much on such to be found via the web, also check out the Celtic League and Celtic Congress. Of course what we really need is a political PAN CELTIC UNION PARTY to campaign for West Atlantic Sea Board Celtic Unity over, above and beyound the European Union. Read up on the Celtic Arc/Bow Initiative, this needs a vigourous revival and advance, some one maybe organise conferences on such in association with otherwise Celtic Cultural Festivals as at Porthcawl and Lorient. Perhaps building up to a major Celtic Charter Convention possibly to be held in Cork in 2016 to mark the 100th anniversary of 1916. An idea I shall persue again!
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Myself and others now are quite happy to be regarded as Celtic and not simply some remnant prehistoric survival with an Iron Age label in a museum, that might seek to denie me my Celtic Roots and confuse them with Saxon/Germanic Roots. This of course could all be one of those 'Multi - Cultural' plots to denie that the ancient Britons had any more a prior right to the British Isles over and above the Saxons. Archaeolagists and historians can themselves be 'subjective' and regarded with suspicion, after all Archaelogists can themselves often 'invent' and get it wrong by reading too much into one find of one lot of 'Old Bones' as the next. Of course Archaeolagists can also be politically used as in case of Israel where such 'science' is used to ''prove'' pre existence of Israelites to Canaanites in present day Palestine.
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