Who is British?

[Leyland Worldmaster]

Originally Posted by barney bear

You're a brave man admitting that on here George

He is very brave isn't he big bro!

I'm a Leyland Man.

[Rev Jules]

Originally Posted by klarzy

me too......

And me!

Rev

[wraymond]

OP, thank you for not calling us brits. We are Britons (in the main). In Europe no one is a germ, a frog, a sprout, or any other malodourous individual.

As I have one paternal grandmother (married to an Englishman) who had two Scottish parents and grandparents, two English parents with one English paternal grandparent and one Welsh, I consider myself mongrel Celt.
Oh, and I lived in Cornwall for eight years, but don't count that.

[Rovering]

Haaaaa!
My parents are from 'English' stock on my maternal side, and a predominantly Danish and Irish stock on my paternal side.
We used to joke with Mum that Dads ancestors rowed across and raped and pillaged hers!
But then that was many many eons ago!
I am 3rd generation Kiwi on my fathers side, and 6th generation Kiwi on my Mothers side. Mums family arrived in New Zealand at Nelson in 1840.
New Zealand is such a young country!
Rule Britannia!!

[klarzy]

Originally Posted by wraymond

OP,

As I have one paternal grandmother (married to an Englishman) who had two Scottish parents and grandparents, two English parents with one English paternal grandparent and one Welsh, I consider myself mongrel Celt.
Oh, and I lived in Cornwall for eight years, but don't count that.

so your mostly a sweaty sock then??

[Dragrad]

Originally Posted by jackatesme

A study of D.N.A. suggests that most british people are Anglo Saxon. While agreeing with that statement i must say that their statement "to be british is to be Anglo Saxon" is surely not true. The Anglo Saxons invaded Britain about 450AD we Celts had been living here peacefully for a thousand years before your lot come. So surely to be CELTIC is to be BRITISH.
Keeping my head down in the trench.

What is the issue here ? We are British by birth, or by Commonwealth....

The Welsh originated, by DNA profiling from the Croatia/Serbia region. Those tribes migrated west to, the now sunken area (Doggerland - [Google it] then onto what is now called Britain/UK. But the Welsh language has no connection to its origins. There is no contradiction, in academic circles, that Welsh is the oldest language in Europe

The others followed later....

But in my mind, it matters not where you are from, by ethnic birth or otherwise,... if you are in our lands and accept the host country then you are British... Where lies the problem ?

The last 3 days I spent with a UK naturalised Mali, 2nd & 3rd+ generation Asians (Western & Eastern) & Welsh... Oh and a few English... We got on great together and a camerarderie was a natural process...

The end of it all is that WE are all Homo Sapiens (Human) and we can all live together, regardless of race, colour or creed... It is only a sick, misguided "individuals/group" who create an issue...

Live and let live IMO..... if only others would abide by this simple "rule" of co-existance, the world could be a better place.....

(I post this, not as a Moderator, but purely as an individual)

[Kennyeth]

Originally Posted by jackatesme

A study of D.N.A. suggests that most british people are Anglo Saxon. While agreeing with that statement i must say that their statement "to be british is to be Anglo Saxon" is surely not true. The Anglo Saxons invaded Britain about 450AD we Celts had been living here peacefully for a thousand years before your lot come. So surely to be CELTIC is to be BRITISH.
Keeping my head down in the trench.

https://youtu.be/F3_MfDYVKlg
I am African by decent, where we all came from.
Ken.

[mbev51]

I thought all foreigners had to go home!

[jackatesme]

I would like to add that opening post was done in jest, bored, no sport on tv so thought i would start up a discussion. BTW i am 2 parts Irish on my paternal side 1 part Cornwall and 1 part Herefordshire on my maternal side, so i am as much of a mongrel as everyone.

[Kennyeth]

Originally Posted by jackatesme

I would like to add that opening post was done in jest, bored, no sport on tv so thought i would start up a discussion. BTW i am 2 parts Irish on my paternal side 1 part Cornwall and 1 part Herefordshire on my maternal side, so i am as much of a mongrel as everyone.

I knew that, but over the hundreds of thousands of years I turned White, how strange.
Ken.
Ken.