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Fantasy is at least a part of traditional Welsh culture.
Overall I mostly agree with the article. It has to be made by culturally competent people.
Someone posted this recently - https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=wa_NWD_ytyE - and the butchering of Celtic myth and names is ridiculous.
Fantasy is a genre, that dates back to classical mythology. The idea of someone, of any country, gate keeping fantasy under the idea of cultural appropriation is absurd. “Culturally competent” what does that even mean? You can’t write a book without a history degree in Welsh culture? Foh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_competence