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Zing Tsjeng travels around the UK to find out what it means to be British

Zing Tsjeng wonders what it means to be British. She travels around the UK to find out.

Zing Tsjeng, executive editor at VICE UK, is on a journey around the UK trying to figure out what being British is all about. After living in the UK half her life, she wants to decide whether to trade her Singaporean passport for a British one. It's a tough dilemma, as Singapore doesn't allow dual nationality, and swapping the citizenship of the country she was raised in for the one she now calls home feels like a big deal. Can talking to people from all over the country about their national and local identity help her decide whether to take the plunge and become British?

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08/08/2020 GMT

'Speaking Welsh is vibrant and cool'

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Zing’s in Cardiff, meeting Welsh-language sex podcaster Lisa Angharad

Zing’s in Cardiff, meeting Welsh-language sex podcaster Lisa Angharad.

“People have had to really fight to keep the language alive, which is why it’s vibrant now”. Zing heads to Cardiff to meet Lisa Angharad, host of possibly the first ever sex podcast in Welsh – Siarad Secs. Lisa wants to provide young Welsh speakers with frank, open discussions “in the language they have sex in, and have those chats with their mates in”. Lisa is also a singer, and says that a love of music, singing and harmonising is at the heart of Welsh identity: “If you’re happy, joyous, grieving, whatever – music is something we gravitate towards.” She's proudly Welsh, and doesn't feel "an ounce British" - she tells Zing why.

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Journalist Zing Tsjeng is on a journey around the UK trying to figure out what being British is all about. After living in the UK half her life, she wants to decide whether to trade her Singaporean passport for a British one. It's a tough dilemma as Singapore doesn't allow dual nationality and swapping the citizenship of the country she was raised in, for the one she now calls home now, feels like a big deal. Can talking to people from all over the country about their national and local identity help her decide whether to take the plunge and become British?

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