Technically they are both British (inhabitants of the British Isles), though the Irish (from the Republic of Ireland) are as probable to consider themselves British as Canadians are to consider themselves American. In contrast, most Latin Americans consider themselves American.
Interesting article. Genetically, it's not that surprising that the populations go back before the Celtic and subsequent invasions.
But you can't discount the importance of cultural change. China had a way of assimilating invaders and getting them to adapt the Chinese culture. But the Celts, the Anglo-Saxons, and the Normans all ruled in their turns, and had enormous cultural influence. Which would help explain why the people of those regions are so different from one another.
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"In Dr. Oppenheimers reconstruction of events, the principal ancestors of todays British and Irish populations arrived from Spain about 16,000 years ago, speaking a language related to Basque."
This dovetails nicely with the Milesian Legends, but the timeframe appears to be off considerably.
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If this is the case, then it would be pretty big.
Ms Mathur noticed the similarities after moving to BBC Radio Wales
"We tend to pronounce everything - all the consonants, all the vowels."
Sonia Mathur
'Apu from the Simpsons holidaying in Swansea' or Pete Postlethwaite?
Bump to that.
A lot of Europeans seem to link people group (race) and culture together as if they are the same. In the Shilpa Shetty scandal in the British version of "Big Brother," people were declaring Jade Goody racist because of disparaging comments she made about Indian culture. The two are not the same.
Plenty of Americans use a Germanic language (English) although their amound of Germanic blood may be very low, or nonexistent.
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WTH?? I accept that the peoples of these islands are more or less ethnically, if not culturally, homogenous, but this is a bizarre claim - the notion that Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Normans, Vikings and Romans are only a minority of the genetic make up???