Re: Anglo-Whats?

From: allan connochie (allan_at_EASYNET.CO.UK)
Date: 09/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:15:43 +0100

"flink" <flink@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> "allan connochie" <allan@EASYNET.CO.UK> wrote in message
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  It's certainly nothing to do with genetics or
> > nationality. Scots may joke that Geordies are Scotsmen with their heads
> > kicked in but it's not taken too seriously.
> >
> > Allan
>
> Because being English is defined in racial terms, i.e. as being of
> genetically pure Anglo-Saxon descent, and not in national terms, i.e. I
was
> born in England so I am English, then you can go and shove England up your
> backside!

That's nonsense of course and is only in your head. Plus if you came from
Manchester as you said you did, then you'd know where Man Utd's ground is.
If you knew so much about northern England as you claim you do then maybe
you'd know that there's no such place as Bamborough [see your latest post on
Cumbric names] Quite frankly you haven't much credibility as far as I'm
concerned and I suspect your relationship with northern England amounts to
little more than a trip to the Rheged Centre. I know hundreds upon hundreds
of English people and don't know any that go about defining themselves as
you do. I spend around a third of my working time in Northumberland. The
term Anglo-Saxon in modern times is used as a term to describe things
English but that doesn't mean they claim to be 100% descended from
Anglo-Saxons. In Scotland we name ourselves after the Dalriadan Scots but
that doesn't mean we are 100% descended from them either. Your
anti-Englishness is plain silly.

The Cornish accept anyone as Cornish who goes to live in Cornwall
> and learns Cornish.The Cornish are not racist.

Well for a start I never suggested that the good folk of Cornwall were
racist. Your observation above is again plain silly. If they only accepted
those who learned Cornish then they would in fact be rejecting just about
everyone! Only a tiny trickle of folk speak Cornish whether they are
originally from Cornwall or elsewhere. Do you know anything about Britain
at all?

 Why is being English defined
> in racist terms?

It isn't.

Could it be because England is a racist state? What about
> *** Watch or Immigration Watch, or whatever you want to call it?

What about it? There are minorities of bigots in every society. Labelling
every English person because of small groups is plain silly. Every nation
could be so condemned.

Allan