Dr. Francis McIntosh

I'm a local woman in the village.

We marry.

Our children will be half Astorian.

So it might still be that they still see themselves as being Astorian, even if they were born in Britain.

And we know that soldiering has quite a lot of trades do become hereditary.

No, I would say, A, I would say there is no homogenous Roman.

That's very true.

Anyway, and that...

If the Al-Astoria had 100 years, say, a base in France, they would have one identity.

And then when that unit moves up to the wall, their identity would change again.

Because I think there is a military sort of frontier identity and you pick up things from your local, you know, that affects you.

Particularly, I think, to do with religion.

But also you...

We'll hold on to traditions probably a lot more fiercely than you might if you stayed in a region.

You know, there's that fact, which may well be an urban myth, but, you know, there's more Welsh speakers in Patagonia than there are in Wales now because of a community that moved to Wales in, I say, the 18th century again, you know.

Yeah.

And there's more Welsh speakers in Patagonia.

And, you know, you look at immigrant and diaspora groups now that the either version of the language they are still speaking or the traditions they hold on to are from when that group left their homeland.

Right.

Whereas in the home, things have moved on and changed.