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> with their 2000 years of history on the island Dude, stop fucking people about. The country was usurped about 1000 years ago by Frenchmen of Danish heritage
by amiga386 1y ago
> with their 2000 years of history on the island
Dude, stop fucking people about. The country was usurped about 1000 years ago by Frenchmen of Danish heritage and they rubbed the native Anglo-Saxon faces into the dirt. And those Anglo-Saxons had similarly usurped native Celtic peoples around 600 years before that. And let's not get into these Celtic people fighting Pictish people for control of proto-Scotland.
Trying to bundle all the UK's myriad historic ethnicities into a single "white british" category so you can other everyone else is nationalist bullshit.
- hermitcrab 1y agoAnd ultimately, we all came from Africa's rift valley. We are all immigrants in the UK. It is just a matter when.
- Xss3 1y agoI guess nationalism is pointless then? Why is it this sort of 'being proud of your people' thing is only bad when it applies to certain groups but not others despite equally violent histories?
- donkeybeer 1y ago>nationalism is pointless then Correct. For any ethnicity or country. Have yet to see any good in it that outweighs the bad. What useful thing have we ever got by focusing on race and nationalism?
- Xss3 1y agoCulture is part of national and ethnic identity.
- Xss3 1y agoI guess Ireland should just join the UK then since their national identity is meaningless. You can tell them. I'll watch.
- donkeybeer 1y agoWhy did the fight / oppression begin in the first place? Race, ethnicity and nationalism.
- Xss3 1y agoNo. It was about colonisation. Resources. Control. Power.