... to imperialist ways of thinking." Whether Plaid Cymru likes it or not, the fact is that history has made Wales a culturally-diverse nation with at least 3 distinct areas originally delineated by Denis Balsom in 1979 in his "Three-Wales Model". The fact that led him to construct this model is that the willingness to be identified as "British" is not dependent on linguistic factors only, but is strongly linked to the geographical territory inhabited by a given group. Thus, we could speak about a British Wales, roughly taking up the wide border country, including the southern coast, plus the north-eastern coast; a Welsh-Wales taking up the central and southern areas; and finally, what is commonly referred as "Y Fro Gymraeg", or Welsh-speaking area, represented by the north-western and west-central areas. The point that needs to be made is that Wales, at least nowadays, is a far more complex reality than a ...

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