"English" is a mixture from other European subgroups colonizng the islands: Anglo Saxons, Nordic, Norman, and Germanic, (or so . . . history classes were a VERY long time ago!)
"English" is a mixture from other European subgroups colonizng the islands: Anglo Saxons, Nordic, Norman, and Germanic, (or so . . . history classes were a VERY long time ago!)
The true indigenous English (and British) were scattered tribes of 'Celts' who were not of the same race, but shared common cultures and customs and they settled in the British Isles from about 500 BC onwards. There's not much Celtic blood in England now; most English genetic heritage is from the the invasions of the Angles and the Saxons. Cultural heritage is far more important than genetic purity or bloodlines. What they are trying to do is erase British culture and history. That matters. If we lose our cultural identity, we lose our country and we lose ourselves and our national identity.
In fact there is plenty of Celtic blood - the Anglo Saxons, Vikings etc who entered the coastal areas in particular bred with the Celtic women. The dna is there, especially in the matrilineal lines, but the Celtic languages were wiped out in England, as we can see from the early English language and the village names. A few place names survived - rivers and mountains.
Ancestry.com say that in England as a whole, the proportion of Irish (Celtic) DNA is around 20%. In Scotland and NI, the proportion is twice as high, where Celtic DNA dominates over that of Anglo-Saxon and West European.
So the Celts were the original colonizers of Britain. Interesting.
I suppose one could say that the ONLY truly indigenous group is the descendants of the equitoral Africans where humanity originally evolved. Everybody else are later migrants and colonizers!
Neanderthals were the original inhabitants of the Eurasian continent. Modern humans from Africa invaded much later, but even so, Neanderthals and modern humans share a common ancestor on the African continent. Neanderthals lived long enough in Eurasia to evolve separately from Homo Sapiens and thus became a separate species of human, so the true indigenous Europeans really are Neanderthals and I think it's likely they made it to the British Isles during periods when there was no sea separating us from the continent. Certainly, Neanderthal DNA persists in modern humans from interbreeding during the wave of invasions of 'Out Of Africa' modern humans near the end of the last Ice Age.
"English" is a mixture from other European subgroups colonizng the islands: Anglo Saxons, Nordic, Norman, and Germanic, (or so . . . history classes were a VERY long time ago!)
The true indigenous English (and British) were scattered tribes of 'Celts' who were not of the same race, but shared common cultures and customs and they settled in the British Isles from about 500 BC onwards. There's not much Celtic blood in England now; most English genetic heritage is from the the invasions of the Angles and the Saxons. Cultural heritage is far more important than genetic purity or bloodlines. What they are trying to do is erase British culture and history. That matters. If we lose our cultural identity, we lose our country and we lose ourselves and our national identity.
In fact there is plenty of Celtic blood - the Anglo Saxons, Vikings etc who entered the coastal areas in particular bred with the Celtic women. The dna is there, especially in the matrilineal lines, but the Celtic languages were wiped out in England, as we can see from the early English language and the village names. A few place names survived - rivers and mountains.
Ancestry.com say that in England as a whole, the proportion of Irish (Celtic) DNA is around 20%. In Scotland and NI, the proportion is twice as high, where Celtic DNA dominates over that of Anglo-Saxon and West European.
https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/international/press-releases/DNA-of-the-nation-revealedand-were-not-as-British-as-we-think
So the Celts were the original colonizers of Britain. Interesting.
I suppose one could say that the ONLY truly indigenous group is the descendants of the equitoral Africans where humanity originally evolved. Everybody else are later migrants and colonizers!
Neanderthals were the original inhabitants of the Eurasian continent. Modern humans from Africa invaded much later, but even so, Neanderthals and modern humans share a common ancestor on the African continent. Neanderthals lived long enough in Eurasia to evolve separately from Homo Sapiens and thus became a separate species of human, so the true indigenous Europeans really are Neanderthals and I think it's likely they made it to the British Isles during periods when there was no sea separating us from the continent. Certainly, Neanderthal DNA persists in modern humans from interbreeding during the wave of invasions of 'Out Of Africa' modern humans near the end of the last Ice Age.
Or so they say. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001678781730113X#fig0030