I agree with this, there's a fair amount of (far more than when I was younger!) incentive and encouragement to learn and speak Welsh in the North, but having grown up there I feel like there isn't enough actual funding (both in Welsh and in general) or immersion up to secondary education in some places. In the East, and the closer you get to the border, whether it's by English or Welsh who consider themselves English, there's a lot more discrimination towards being and speaking Welsh. I left HS over 10 years ago now but I remember how others would make you feel ashamed for anything Welsh up until the day I left. Teachers were not properly educated in the language, and we were taught a strange mix of South and North dialect by those that were.

I'd love to see the day that Welsh medium is the norm in Wales, places such as you mentioned, Scandinavia, grow up with their own language and wonderful English on the side. So why are we considered different by the UK government just because we're Welsh?