Cornish

It is sort of fascinating (and extremely frustrating) to me how some people just can't seem to conceive of Cornish people just like existing...? Multiple times I've had someone go "Oh you're learning Cornish? Wow that's niche, how on earth did you ever learn that Cornish existed in the first place?" like my father is literally from Cornwall, there was never a single moment when I learned that Cornish existed because it has always had a presence in my life (even though no one in my family is fluent). It's just a normal thing to me and plenty of other people, and not a strange, niche, "exotic" thing. Some of us have known about these "niche minority cultures" our whole lives because our literal family who raised us are from them. Even in Celtic studies spaces people forget about Cornwall and act like this. What's going on!!!