The OG English actually came over from Nigeria. As shown by the BBC.
Anglo-Saxons *were* real. They died out over 700 years ago, their last remnants assimilated by the Fr*nch into the Anglo-Normans.
White supremacist yanks & Barries are just super weird for pretending they have “Anglo-Saxon blood” and “Anglo-Saxon heritage”. They have no idea who the Anglo-Saxons even were.
>In effort to fight ‘nationalism’
Good fucking luck, now we can just be even more nationalistic in being ‘Britons’.
All hail King Arthur! We’ll follow the example of Boudicca and chase the foreigners from our shores!
(…No-one mention how that ended)
The problem with this anti-nationalism and anti-racism is that it takes away the sense of community and drive as a nation. And, at the end, you end up with a country without social cohesion. To the point that not even tourists want to visit it because there is no real shared culture that is worth learning from. Just the same bland pizza-kebab-burger you can find in many other places.
I think there is a middle ground between being the “superior race blessed by the heavens to rule over their lessers” (specially because Aryans, “Yamatos”, Hans, etc. can not all be the superior one at the same time) and the “blending of incompatible cultures until the place is indistinguishable for others”. A community where individuals can not only feel they belong to, but actually want to contribute to it.
This semantic crap just has the opposite effect.
An ethnic or cultural group does not rely on a specific set of historic facts. It’s the modern self-identity that determines ethnicity.
For example, European Celt culture didn’t make it to Ireland after all. The more historically accurate term is Gael. But that doesn’t invalidate the modern Irish “Celtic” identity. Even if the name is technically mislabeling things, the underlying Irish identity it refers to exists (self-evidently).
Anglo-Saxon culture is rooted in historic fact. Perhaps some details are popularity misunderstood. That doesn’t mean that the modern “Anglo-Saxon” identity doesn’t exist. It remains a well-defined cultural and ethnic group.
As a famous Anglo-Saxon once said, “*a rose by any other name smells just as sweet*”.
No amount of *well ackshually* alters this.
I’ll check what’s actually happening another time, but I know for sure this article is lying.
Funny how it’s only ever European/Western identities these academics and journalists are interested in dismantling
Finally, Cambridge throws off the shackles of fake Germanoid “history” to return the land to its true people, the BRITONS! HAIL CERNUNNOS! ONWARDS TO CAMULODUNUM, REDDEN THE EARTH WITH ROMAN BLOOD!
“In general, ASNC teaching seeks to dismantle the basis of myths of nationalism – that there ever was a ‘British’, ‘English’, ‘Scottish’, ‘Welsh’ or ‘Irish’ people with a coherent and ancient ethnic identity – by showing students just how constructed and contingent these identities are and always have been.”
English are so multi culti mixed, the are britons, romans, germanics, danish, norse and french and probably a ton of shit I forgot
The same degree programme at Cambridge, which purported to be the best for Celtic studies in the world, had to send students to Aberystwyth uni in order to learn Welsh properly, because they weren’t capable of teaching it themselves. Pretty rich, coming from such an elitist institution. I studied at Aber- the professors didn’t obsess over “wElL eVeRyThInG’s A cOnStRuCt”.
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The OG English actually came over from Nigeria. As shown by the BBC.
Anglo-Saxons *were* real. They died out over 700 years ago, their last remnants assimilated by the Fr*nch into the Anglo-Normans.
White supremacist yanks & Barries are just super weird for pretending they have “Anglo-Saxon blood” and “Anglo-Saxon heritage”. They have no idea who the Anglo-Saxons even were.
>In effort to fight ‘nationalism’
Good fucking luck, now we can just be even more nationalistic in being ‘Britons’.
All hail King Arthur! We’ll follow the example of Boudicca and chase the foreigners from our shores!
(…No-one mention how that ended)
The problem with this anti-nationalism and anti-racism is that it takes away the sense of community and drive as a nation. And, at the end, you end up with a country without social cohesion. To the point that not even tourists want to visit it because there is no real shared culture that is worth learning from. Just the same bland pizza-kebab-burger you can find in many other places.
I think there is a middle ground between being the “superior race blessed by the heavens to rule over their lessers” (specially because Aryans, “Yamatos”, Hans, etc. can not all be the superior one at the same time) and the “blending of incompatible cultures until the place is indistinguishable for others”. A community where individuals can not only feel they belong to, but actually want to contribute to it.
This semantic crap just has the opposite effect.
An ethnic or cultural group does not rely on a specific set of historic facts. It’s the modern self-identity that determines ethnicity.
For example, European Celt culture didn’t make it to Ireland after all. The more historically accurate term is Gael. But that doesn’t invalidate the modern Irish “Celtic” identity. Even if the name is technically mislabeling things, the underlying Irish identity it refers to exists (self-evidently).
Anglo-Saxon culture is rooted in historic fact. Perhaps some details are popularity misunderstood. That doesn’t mean that the modern “Anglo-Saxon” identity doesn’t exist. It remains a well-defined cultural and ethnic group.
As a famous Anglo-Saxon once said, “*a rose by any other name smells just as sweet*”.
No amount of *well ackshually* alters this.
I’ll check what’s actually happening another time, but I know for sure this article is lying.
Funny how it’s only ever European/Western identities these academics and journalists are interested in dismantling
Finally, Cambridge throws off the shackles of fake Germanoid “history” to return the land to its true people, the BRITONS! HAIL CERNUNNOS! ONWARDS TO CAMULODUNUM, REDDEN THE EARTH WITH ROMAN BLOOD!
https://preview.redd.it/6k5g0trgirjd1.png?width=500&format=png&auto=webp&s=663f22e15be8d7fd32023a05a6d89a104edad380
well… silver linings
“The department’s approach also aims to show that there were never “coherent” Scottish, Irish and Welsh ethnic identities with ancient roots.”
Great does this mean I don’t have to go to work this morning?
This article also states that Irish Scottish and Welsh don’t exist. So that’s Paddy, Groundskeeper Willie, and Dafydd all being shared hallucinations.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240118043125/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/03/anglo-saxons-arent-real-cambridge-student-fight-nationalism/
“In general, ASNC teaching seeks to dismantle the basis of myths of nationalism – that there ever was a ‘British’, ‘English’, ‘Scottish’, ‘Welsh’ or ‘Irish’ people with a coherent and ancient ethnic identity – by showing students just how constructed and contingent these identities are and always have been.”
English are so multi culti mixed, the are britons, romans, germanics, danish, norse and french and probably a ton of shit I forgot
The same degree programme at Cambridge, which purported to be the best for Celtic studies in the world, had to send students to Aberystwyth uni in order to learn Welsh properly, because they weren’t capable of teaching it themselves. Pretty rich, coming from such an elitist institution. I studied at Aber- the professors didn’t obsess over “wElL eVeRyThInG’s A cOnStRuCt”.