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   From: allan@noemail.co.uk   
      
   "Baldoni XXV @googlemail.com>"  wrote in message   
   news:mn.d4187d759c082913.74922@googlemail.co...   
   > Westprog submitted this idea :   
   >> "Baldoni XXV @googlemail.com>"  wrote in message   
   >> news:mn.cd2d7d75b79d006d.74922@googlemail.co...   
   >>> The Highlander formulated the question : ...   
   >>>> I love it all! If we could only persuade the largest Celtic group in   
   >>>> Britain to accept that they are actually Celts, we could make   
   >>>> something our of these islands.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>>> The problem is that the English refuse to accept that most of them are   
   >>>> Celts with some Anglo-Saxon/Norse/Danish input.   
   >>   
   >>> Does it really matter ?   
   >>   
   >> The funny thing is that Highlander thinks it does, and that the English   
   >> would be totally devastated if they found out that they were descended   
   >> from   
   >> a different bunch of barbarian tribesmen. Or that if they accepted it   
   >> they'd   
   >> feel quite differently about themselves.   
   >>   
   >> I can safely say that the reaction of the vast majority would be "Didn't   
   >> know. Didn't care. Still don't care."   
   >   
   > It is the best way to be IMHO as it does not encourage tribalism.   
   > Nationalism is a dangerous thing indeed also some over the top patriots.   
   > I find over the top Welsh/Scot's nationalists irritating in the same way I   
   > find English "John Bull" types irritating.   
   >   
   > I am more than happy to be a "mongrel" whatever that is these days !   
      
   To be fair to them Scottish nationalism ( or at least political nationalism   
   within the SNP) has little to do with any supposed ethnicity. Scots are as   
   much mongrels as the English anyway (for eg Norse, Anglians, Anglo-Normans,   
   as well as later incomers) but even at that the Nats are not narrow minded   
   in who they see as Scots. Basically among other factors (ie parents born in   
   Scotland etc) they regard anyone legally living in Scotland as a Scot.   
      
      
   Allan   
      
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