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> English is what you got when Anglo-Saxon peasants were forced to serve French speaking nobles. Are you suggesting that England, the very definition of imperi
by PaulDavisThe1st 3y ago
> English is what you got when Anglo-Saxon peasants were forced to serve French speaking nobles.
Are you suggesting that England, the very definition of imperialist settler colonialism, is itself the product of imperialist settler colonialism?
- pard68 3y agoWell it is. Celts are the original peoples and have been invaded at various times by Gaels, Scandinavians, French, and Romans. Probably others too.
- PaulDavisThe1st 3y agoThere were non-Sapiens species on the islands. Later, after the last ice age, a neolithic culture apparently linked to Anatolia. Subsequently during the Bronze age, the Iberians ("Bell-Beaker people") arrived, preceding the Celts. So any talk of "the original peoples" in the British Isles is just about as meaningless as it is anywhere outside of some parts of Africa.
- OJFord 3y agoMany, it's not even a lukewarm take I'm afraid. Different invaders for different times. Also Jews were expelled for a few centuries, and made to wear particular clothing prior to that. I'm sure you could find many other examples that we more readily associate to some other country (or in some other direction) today, and they may be different again in centuries to come.