By Selwyn Duke
Imagine you invite a couple of people to stay at your home, which has been in your family for generations. Now imagine that because they find pictures of great-grandpa and some other ancestors adorning your walls offensive, a few of your family members consider destroying the works.
How would you describe those family members’ mentality? Self-image problem? Lack of self-respect? A desire for approval overwhelming enough to make one prostrate himself before others?
Whatever you call it, this is precisely what’s happening in the Welsh national family. In fact, states a new government guidance in Wales, statues of “‘old white men’ such as the Duke of Wellington and Admiral Lord Nelson could be hidden or destroyed to create the ‘right historical narrative,’” related The Telegraph Saturday.
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