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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio
the existence of these mono-cultural ghettoes is a testament to the failures of Labour & Tories. As a minimum, such communities should be 30% Polish, 10% French, 10% irish etc. The young kids, in the playground, need to learn to all get along. Ghetto-mentalities beget sectarianism and civil strife. As we have seen in Ulster, Kashmir & the middle East. Its not multiculturalism if there isnt any 'multi'. Most wars and conflicts have at their roots differences in race, religion, language, and culture. Yet the fools on the left will continue to tell us that it is all great.
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
The Cornish has a broad, well muscled body. Its legs are of large diameter and widely spaced. The large deep set eyes, projecting brows and strong, slightly curved beak give the Cornish a rather cruel expression. Cornish males are often pugnacious and the chicks tend to be more cannibalistic than some breeds. The Cornish ? not pasty-faced ?
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
Someone can claim an identity as much as they like, but everyone else has to accept it to make it credible. That is the key point. None of this has anything to do with the factual reality of genetic heritage and characteristics. You can keep responding to my posts forever. It won't make you right. What others do is up to them. They are as free to reject as anyone else is to accept. That is the key point. For people who constantly bang on about the importance of freedom of expression being able to freely express your cultural identity ought to be important. Whilst trying to restrict it to a narrow, completely arbitrary and impractical genetic measurement is authoritarian nonsense. The attempt to define ethnicity by genetic markers is a fig leaf to cover a much more sinister attitude. Those genetic markers are all OK if they arrive from ancient Britains or from anywhere else in Northern Europe. Never mind if there was any mixing prior to them arriving. We’ll just conveniently ignore that. What we won’t accept are any that come from further away, from places where the skin tones are darker. It’s culture and behaviour that’s important. Why and how that is acquired isn’t.
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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio
the existence of these mono-cultural ghettoes is a testament to the failures of Labour & Tories. As a minimum, such communities should be 30% Polish, 10% French, 10% irish etc. The young kids, in the playground, need to learn to all get along. Ghetto-mentalities beget sectarianism and civil strife. As we have seen in Ulster, Kashmir & the middle East. Its not multiculturalism if there isnt any 'multi'.
Edited by PalazioVecchio (18 Jun 2024 4.12pm) This is away from the original subject but it throws up an important reason why we must not allow the concept of defining ethnicity by genetics to take root. Over recent decades we have witnessed the arrival of people from all over the world, but particularly from Asia, often bringing with them religious and cultural beliefs and behaviours that are unfamiliar, and sometimes uncomfortable. Some fear this will lead to our own culture being swamped and replaced. Something that must not happen. I don’t believe it will, but if we allow the idea of defining identity by genetics to take root, it could. Why is this? The second, third and subsequent generations of the new arrivals become progressively less like their parents and more like us, the longer they are exposed to, and absorb, our culture. Not all. Those trapped inside closed societies find it more difficult but many others do. We need to do more to prise open the closed ones. We already have many who I am sure would identify themselves as British, or English, Asians. Not Indians, pakistanis or Bangladeshis. Partly Anglicised! Give that time and some intermarrying, as is already happening, and how long before their successors identify only as English? Follow the genetic route and you exclude all of these people from being part of us. It would build completely unnecessary and self defeating barriers. It must not happen.
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
What others do is up to them. They are as free to reject as anyone else is to accept. That is the key point. For people who constantly bang on about the importance of freedom of expression being able to freely express your cultural identity ought to be important. Whilst trying to restrict it to a narrow, completely arbitrary and impractical genetic measurement is authoritarian nonsense. The attempt to define ethnicity by genetic markers is a fig leaf to cover a much more sinister attitude. Those genetic markers are all OK if they arrive from ancient Britains or from anywhere else in Northern Europe. Never mind if there was any mixing prior to them arriving. We’ll just conveniently ignore that. What we won’t accept are any that come from further away, from places where the skin tones are darker. It’s culture and behaviour that’s important. Why and how that is acquired isn’t. No, what it shows is that you live in a fantasy where Nazis are deep frozen in underground bunkers waiting to come out and take over the world. Sure, genetic heritage is complex. Of course, we all apparently come from one small group of people out of Africa, so we are told. Of course, there was plenty a mixing in Europe. Nevertheless, the English are now a distinct genetic group. Accept that. This is all far less significant than the cultural, social and historical heritage that we are being stripped of because of people like you. Your opinion is irrelevant.
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
I can identify as a 'Native' American if I like, but that doesn't mean I am. The absurdity of the idea that who you choose to be somehow alters reality is just plain bonkers. you are correct. I have been accepted as English many times. Yet am steadfastly Irish. Similar to many Scots & Welsh......you do not need to be wearing a kilt or swinging a club to be a Celt. my 3 requirements to being English : a. the locals recognise you as such, b. you want to identify as such.....and c. its nice to have a bit of a DNA match too. Although, like the Dutch Val Tulleken brothers, or the French DNA of Jean Jacques Burnel, you can look the part and get away with it, very often. When you look & talk like a Nigel, people will accept you as the same.
Edited by PalazioVecchio (19 Jun 2024 1.07pm)
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
No, what it shows is that you live in a fantasy where Nazis are deep frozen in underground bunkers waiting to come out and take over the world. Sure, genetic heritage is complex. Of course, we all apparently come from one small group of people out of Africa, so we are told. Of course, there was plenty a mixing in Europe. Nevertheless, the English are now a distinct genetic group. Accept that. This is all far less significant than the cultural, social and historical heritage that we are being stripped of because of people like you. Your opinion is irrelevant. No one has suggested genetics isn't science. Of course, it is! Genetics is not though the defining characteristic of ethnicity. It isn't even a contributory factor! I don't think any Nazis are lurking and ready to take over the world. I think some of their ideas have lingered and resurface occasionally, although nobody ever accepts any connection. You are just plain wrong. The English are not a distinct genetic group. They are a diverse group that is getting more diverse every year. You cannot just pick any moment of your choosing and freeze the qualifications. It doesn't work and couldn't work. I am not stripping us of anything! I treasure our culture and historical heritage but want to share it so others can also appreciate it and come to love it. Of course, it needs protecting but you don't do that by locking it away from others. Why Cornwall is singled out for special treatment beats me. It is a part of England with a particularly strong and vibrant culture. The people here are very happy to share their culture and for others to enjoy it. No barriers are erected here.
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
Are you volunteering? I'm not sure I'm macho enough.
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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio
you are correct. I have been accepted as English many times. Yet am steadfastly Irish. Similar to many Scots & Welsh......you do not need to be wearing a kilt or swinging a club to be a Celt. my 3 requirements to being English : a. the locals recognise you as such, b. you want to identify as such.....and c. its nice to have a bit of a DNA match too. Although, like the Dutch Val Tulleken brothers, or the French DNA of Jean Jacques Burnel, you can look the part and get away with it, very often. When you look & talk like a Nigel, people will accept you as the same.
Edited by PalazioVecchio (19 Jun 2024 1.07pm) But if you chose to identify as English no one would either know or question it. You have decided not to. Your choice. We English are a very diverse people nowadays, coming from a large number of genetic origins. Culture is what binds us. Not genetics. Just look at the England football team. Does anyone want to try to point out to Southgate that some of his best players aren't actually English because of their genecity?
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Originally posted by Ouzo Dan
Just watched thousands of Scotland fans sing their hearts out, according to our quarter French troll it amounts to nothing as they're British & anything deeper than feelings doesn't exist. Edited by Ouzo Dan (19 Jun 2024 8.03pm) It was impressive.
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Originally posted by The groover
It was impressive. Scottish fans are a credit to this tournament. Sadly according to one sole person on this forum the Celt in them has been bred out of them to such a point that it's no longer relevant. Edited by Ouzo Dan (19 Jun 2024 8.30pm)
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Originally posted by Ouzo Dan
Just watched thousands of Scotland fans sing their hearts out, according to our quarter French troll it amounts to nothing as they're British & anything deeper than feelings doesn't exist. Edited by Ouzo Dan (19 Jun 2024 8.03pm) Don’t be silly. They all identify as Scottish. Whether they would all qualify genetically or not, who knows or cares?
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Originally posted by Ouzo Dan
Scottish fans are a credit to this tournament. Sadly according to one sole person on this forum the Celt in them has been bred out of them to such a point that it's no longer relevant. Edited by Ouzo Dan (19 Jun 2024 8.30pm) I have read posts here before that spectacularly miss the point, but this one goes top of the list. The “Celt in them” will vary person to person but plays no role about how they feel. That’s down to their upbringing and exposure to the culture. It’s acquired and not inbred. Swap a baby born to English parents with one born to Scots and they would both acquire the culture and identity of those they live with.
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
Swap a baby born to English parents with one born to Scots and they would both acquire the culture and identity of those they live with. one of those babies will never offer to buy a round of drinks.
absent so far , on this thread, are all the foreign eejits who claim to be english, irish, or whatever........and they patently are not. we have all met many of these, often living tens of thousands of miles away. Deluded looneys. you get them in the USA, India, Japan and loads of places.
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
I have read posts here before that spectacularly miss the point, but this one goes top of the list. The “Celt in them” will vary person to person but plays no role about how they feel. That’s down to their upbringing and exposure to the culture. It’s acquired and not inbred. Swap a baby born to English parents with one born to Scots and they would both acquire the culture and identity of those they live with. A donkey raised with horses is still a donkey.
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Originally posted by Ouzo Dan
A donkey raised with horses is still a donkey. That one now goes top of the list! An ape raised with humans would still be an ape. A human baby raised with humans is a human.
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
That one now goes top of the list! An ape raised with humans would still be an ape. A human baby raised with humans is a human. You claim to hate religion, and yet you live in this delusion of quasi religious ideology. You argue around in circles because you want to stop others being 'wrong'.
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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio
one of those babies will never offer to buy a round of drinks.
absent so far , on this thread, are all the foreign eejits who claim to be english, irish, or whatever........and they patently are not. we have all met many of these, often living tens of thousands of miles away. Deluded looneys. you get them in the USA, India, Japan and loads of places. St Patrick's day and every US President just before the elections.
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