I've always taken this to be about attitudes to Wales and the Welsh.
The patronising attitude of the London media that went with the whole 'Cool Cymru' and the pushing of all those bands, but equally it could be about attitudes of Cardiff / South Wales urban 'sophisticates' to smaller rural communities, particularly west or north walian welsh speaking ones.
@SuitBoy
Hi, this is still an amazing song but I have a theory on the meaning. I just heard about Colin Turnbull the Anthropologist who studied a tribe in Uganda called The Ik. He described them as the most selfish and inhuman people on earth.
@SuitBoy
Hi, this is still an amazing song but I have a theory on the meaning. I just heard about Colin Turnbull the Anthropologist who studied a tribe in Uganda called The Ik. He described them as the most selfish and inhuman people on earth.
They were historically a nomadic tribe but had been forced to stop travelling through ancestral lands due to borders established between Uganda Kenya and Sudan. They were essentially starving and the behaviour they displayed was that of desperate people who were trying to survive.
They were historically a nomadic tribe but had been forced to stop travelling through ancestral lands due to borders established between Uganda Kenya and Sudan. They were essentially starving and the behaviour they displayed was that of desperate people who were trying to survive.
Turnbull's book The Mountain People portrays the Ik in a very...
Turnbull's book The Mountain People portrays the Ik in a very negative light. Years later his findings were discredited. The reason I think the song might be about The Ik is the line, "They don't care about you and me " and the mention of the mountain people.
Certainly gives the song an even more poignant feel.
I've always taken this to be about attitudes to Wales and the Welsh. The patronising attitude of the London media that went with the whole 'Cool Cymru' and the pushing of all those bands, but equally it could be about attitudes of Cardiff / South Wales urban 'sophisticates' to smaller rural communities, particularly west or north walian welsh speaking ones.
@SuitBoy Hi, this is still an amazing song but I have a theory on the meaning. I just heard about Colin Turnbull the Anthropologist who studied a tribe in Uganda called The Ik. He described them as the most selfish and inhuman people on earth.
@SuitBoy Hi, this is still an amazing song but I have a theory on the meaning. I just heard about Colin Turnbull the Anthropologist who studied a tribe in Uganda called The Ik. He described them as the most selfish and inhuman people on earth.
They were historically a nomadic tribe but had been forced to stop travelling through ancestral lands due to borders established between Uganda Kenya and Sudan. They were essentially starving and the behaviour they displayed was that of desperate people who were trying to survive.
They were historically a nomadic tribe but had been forced to stop travelling through ancestral lands due to borders established between Uganda Kenya and Sudan. They were essentially starving and the behaviour they displayed was that of desperate people who were trying to survive.
Turnbull's book The Mountain People portrays the Ik in a very...
Turnbull's book The Mountain People portrays the Ik in a very negative light. Years later his findings were discredited. The reason I think the song might be about The Ik is the line, "They don't care about you and me " and the mention of the mountain people.
Certainly gives the song an even more poignant feel.
Cheers Guy