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I think most people just support their team and the country but don't read much further into it than that, there are a few loonies like the BNP who take things to extremes but are laughed at by most people and will never be taken seriously, after all we fought the biggest wars in history against nationalists and you can't rewrite history, although you can be completely ignorant of it like some of these people. The Royal Family have a lot shorter association with this country than your average joe, that's the point I was making, although if you look at the history of the English we are all mongrels descended from Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Viking Eriks from the continent so there is no such thing as a pure bred Brit, but maybe the Royals are a more recent arrival.
The majority of people in this Country share the bulk of their DNA with the people that remained here when the ice receded and cut us off from Europe. The mongrel claim is myth, or possibly you're mixing us up with America, France or one of the other mongrel nations? For example Russia, Normandy and many others are named after their Norse invaders. Signed, one of many millions of almost pure bread peoples on these Islands
Ducky are you one of them twats who sings we're the Yorkshire Republican Army crap at White ****e matches?
I dont know if this has already been said but my patriotic tattoo simply says BRITISH by birth, ENGLISH by the grace of GOD !! UTT CITD
Agreed, America is a much better recent example of a mongrel nation. We are too though, especially Yorkshire, all the places with by in their names are settlements from the Danes for example. This map shows it. http://www.viking.no/e/england/danelaw/ekart-danelaw.htm Enough history anyway time for a few beers
Names are one thing, DNA is something else altogether. As I said, the mongrel nation claim's an almost total myth. Don't be so quick to sell your culture and heritage short.
Well they do say that the world's population can be split into two groups. Yorkshiremen, and people who wish they were Yorkshiremen.
My family name is a Scandinavian form of an Anglo-Saxon name, and dates back at least 1,000 years. So which would mine count as?
The Labour government tried to take away our national identity in favour of a pan European, mulit racial society in which we are all citizens. What a load of old Labour bollox. Another thing they got wrong. This resulted in the rise of the English Defence League and so forth as people fight to retain their national idenity. Did Labour listen....Don't be silly....Of course I am proud to be English and British. We have given the world more good than bad...
Good question, I guess we all share a bit of DNA from ancient Celts like Dutch says, and we all originate from Africa anyway. We're all the same at the end of the day its just a case of different skin colours. I'm a quarter-welsh, quarter-scottish, quarter unknown and quarter hull so I go by the Hull quarter and thats all that counts!
Quarter "unknown"? haha Not sure how I would write down my % 50% Swedish 40 % Aussie 10 % Scottish Or something like that I guess I feel 90 % Swedish though
Yeah my grandad was a 'wildcard' shall we say, maybe I should get a DNA check could be some Swedish in there, he had a bit of Polish blood, I know that. Hull and England anyhow, thats the way it is!
I thought the union jack, was only called the union jack when it's out at see? On land it's just the union flag. Or am I wrong? I'm not that fussed about being English. In fact I don't even support the English football team anymore. I root for Scotland so I'm not really that much of a patriot. However I do think I'd miss it if I moved abroad.
I think the point being made here is that the English stood alone against Napoleon and Hitler because they valued personal (or monarchial!) freedom against hegemony.Even against odds which defied reason. The anglo-saxons on this island will always choose defience.....and well may it continue.
