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Oh the poor English :( technically that would be sectarian and not racist, as both Scotts and English bellong to the same race.
by timthelion 10y ago
Oh the poor English :(
technically that would be sectarian and not racist, as both Scotts and English bellong to the same race.
- rukittenme 10y agoCelts and Anglo-Saxons are not the same race.
- falsedan 10y agoThey would technically be considered "people" of the same race, but also Scotland hasn't been Celtic for a long time! The original inhabitants of Great Britain were Brythonic + Pictish (of the Celts), but in Scotland they were squeezed out by the Gaelic (also of the Celts) tribes (including the Scotti) crossing the Irish Sea into the west, the Norse crossing the North Sea and expanding into the isles from the north, and a rotating cast of invaders from the south: Romans, Danes (the Angles of Jutland and the Saxons), Normans (the Norse by way of Brittany in France), and English (a strange hodge-podge of remnants of various invaders).
- rmc 10y agoMost anti-racism law (incl UK anti-racism law from the 1960s) defines racism as also being based on ethnicity, or national original. So, yes, under the UK anti-racism law, it would count as racism.