"Ioan Gruffudd" bump.
In addition to this the English seem to have a desire to be completely absorbed into other identities. It is the English-Americans who are "just Americans," the English Canadians who are "just Canadians," the English Australians who are "just Australians," and the English in England are "just British" (the Welsh, Scots, and Irish have no such desire to be absorbed into a greater entity). Even the very names "England" and "English" have become mere synonyms for "Britain" and "British" in away the identities of the other British peoples has not.
The real losers in all this are not the people colonized by the English over the centuries (who all now have Communist national liberation movements rooting for them). It is the simple common people of the English diaspora (and it is often forgotten that not all English are, or have ever been, monocle-wearing colonialists or nobles). Alone among all mankind we have no sense of identity, no sense of an ancient motherland, no nothing.
While Welsh and Scottish nationalists get all the news it is England that most needs to secede from the United Kingdom. For it alone has had its national identity totally annihilated. In fact, I'm not sure such an entity as "England" even officially (unlike Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, which do). Each of those countries has its own parliament/assembly (as well as being represented in the British parliament in London) while England has no parliament at all. Its parliament, the oldest in the world, morphed into the British parliament long ago.
Unfortunately, English nationalism doesn't exist. The English have invested all their capital in being "British." But I believe that an sovereign and independent England would give the peoples of the Anglo-Saxon diaspora the same things all other peoples have (an identity and an ancestral homeland) and might go a long way toward eliminating the racism and nativism so many Anglo-Saxons turn to while trying to satisfy this completely legitimate need.
i think matrilinear dna would be more interesting for this study, I would imagine there were a lot more celtic-dna mothers than fathers in 6th century modern kenth, susssex/essex/east anglia. it seems pretty obvious that y-chromosome propogation is going to be heavily biased in favor of conquerers.
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ping! an old article but a good one! thanks to blam!
Nice piece - bookmarking to read more of the replies.
The North Germanic Danes (who came from the south of what is now Sweden) took over
at the same time the Swedes who came from the north of what is now Sweden took over Sweden and united with the Geats (supposedly the same tribe as the Goths) to form Sweden