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Originally Posted by Eurosceptic Atlanticist
That's certainly not my experience. My experience is that most are proud to be Cornish - most don't care for an assembly or independence. It's certainly nowhere near what I've encountered in Wales, even in relatively passive places such as Cardiff.
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Your experience is different from mine them. I certainly think most people ideally want one. There's certainly a problem with newcomers from the rest of the England or even further who perhaps don't share this feeling, and unfortunately they're becoming a larger segment of the population, but the native Cornish like my mother's family in which most lines can trace back their lineage for centuries certainly feel they ideally want autonomy and they feel similar to the Welsh or Scottish but with less intensity.
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True enough. But how far this extends to support for greater autonomy is up for debate. I know plenty of Cornish people who don't want it, plenty more who don't care.
I agree that most people consider their daily lives far more important, which is probably why the issue is not a high priority.
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Yes it is not a high priority,
but most people ideally do want it. Those you talk about who don't care most likely would ideally want one. I can't see any reason except the dubious one of not wanting more bureaucracy or not being actually Cornish and having recently moved there which would make people not want more autonomy.
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While I'd support greater autonomy (as I would for all Counties in England), I don't want Cornwall to be treated as a separate Country, quite simply because it's not.
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Well your not actually Cornish in so I think that might explain your feelings, few of the English immigrants are boisterously Cornish. But I think what a country is is debatable. It certainly has a unique heritage, as unique as Wales or the IoM, and has alot of nationalist and seperatist feeling in a passive sort of way.It reminds me of places like Kosovo or Bosnia. It is unlike any part of the rest of England in its feelings of seperateness. I think it is very much similar to Wales and alot of Cornish people feel similar to the Welsh but with less intensity as the Welsh feel like the Scots but with generally less intensity.