Mae hi bron yn union ddeg mlynedd ers i Seimon Glyn gael ei alw’n hiliol am ddweud fod diwylliant cynhenid Pen Llŷn dan fygythiad am nad ydi mewnfudwyr yn barod i ddysgu Cymraeg.
Heddiw fe fydd y Prif Weinidog, David Cameron, yn rhoi araith ar fewnfudo gan ddweud bod amharodrwydd mewnfudwyr i ddysgu Saesneg yn arwain at gymunedau “datgymalog” a phobol frodorol “anghysurus”.
Rydw i’n edrych ymlaen at glywed Glenys Kinnock a Janet Street-Porter yn ei gondemnio gyda’r un arddeliad!
Nid fod bygythiad go iawn i’r Saesneg wrth gwrs – ond mae’n dangos, pan mae’r esgid ar y droed arall, nad ydi colli iaith a diwylliant yn cael ei dderbyn â brwdfrydedd yn unrhyw le.
Dyma’r sylwadau yn llawn:
But I’m also clear about something else: for too long, immigration has been too high. Between 1997 and 2009, 2.2 million more people came to live in this country than left to live abroad. That’s the largest influx of people Britain has ever had … and it has placed real pressures on communities up and down the country. Not just pressures on schools, housing and healthcare – though those have been serious … but social pressures too. Because real communities aren’t just collections of public service users living in the same space.
Real communities are bound by common experiences … forged by friendship and conversation … knitted together by all the rituals of the neighbourhood, from the school run to the chat down the pub. And these bonds can take time. So real integration takes time.
That’s why, when there have been significant numbers of new people arriving in neighbourhoods … perhaps not able to speak the same language as those living there … on occasions not really wanting or even willing to integrate … that has created a kind of discomfort and disjointedness in some neighbourhoods.
This has been the experience for many people in our country – and I believe it is untruthful and unfair not to speak about it and address it.
