In 2004, an official map published by the European Union, “The Eurostat Statistical Compendium”, dropped Wales off into the Irish Sea.  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3715512.stm At the time, the Welsh were pretty philosophical about it, and they have a long history of learning to be so.  You can see a larger image of the map here:  http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=qw1096991820904E163 As a sequel, the BBC reported in January of 2005, three months later, that an insurance company had failed to insure someone in SE Wales–“Sentinel Card Protection told 71-year-old Bernard Zavishlock, from Abergavenny, last month that it could not renew the insurance policy he had held for 10 years because Wales was ‘an unknown country’.” These are examples of computer error, compounded by individuals who didn’t notice that Wales was missing.  Real prejudice, however, has existed against Wales since the Norman conquest.   Prejudice in and of itself Read more…