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Yesterday, Google has a special logo up on one of their local portals to celebrate St Davids Day. Here is a picture of the cute and fun looking doodle (logo).
But one person found the doodle insulting and distasteful. He said, "its like celebrating the Hanukkah with a picture of Auschwitz."
He goes on to explain:
While it is very nice that Google celebrates St David's Day by adapting its front page, its very insulting that it uses a castle built by the English king who wanted to prove his power over the Welsh!The castle looks very similar to Caernarfon castle, which was one of a series built by Edward 1. While most people know that Wales is full of castles, it is not the Welsh that built them - it was the English!
Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help forums.
Comments:
barbarella
03/02/2010 10:33 am
just put a *sheep* next time...
Iago
03/04/2010 12:16 pm
Agree to some point. Maybe using Powys or Dinefwr Castles as they were built by the Welsh princes. Glad that they did celebrate though, all we need now is a bank holiday like the Irish have for St. Patrick's Day.
Bigboobs2
06/30/2011 01:32 pm
oh dear, yet again the sheep joke, why do we always refer back to them? if you want to put a picture a famous welsh landmark, just use the severn bridge. that will stop the english come over here and playing with our sheep.