The national front for the cornish people "piss off, w***er, it's the peoples cornish national front. The nfcp is over there.

I guess much like people attributing importance to either genetics (which differ wildly between individuals in groups anyway), history, or a geographical tribe, the answer is, 'because they believe that they are'. Some Cornish people view themselves as somewhat ethnically distinct due to their local history and the specific tribes that inhabited the region hundreds of years back. It seems a little curious to me, but it's not really any different than adopting any other identity I suppose. They are actually a declared national minority .

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I'm surprised they didn't tell you to go back home.

"Cornwall for Cornish people, no interlopers".

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Because they are at the arse end of England, cut off by Devon to the rest of the UK and no one really gives a damn about the place other than as somewhere to get stuck in a traffic jam during the summer. Oh and the fact that there is a quaint Gaelic language that about 3 of them can speak that they believe entitles them to being classed as a separate country..

Nah.

Those were the people were where I lived prior to Cornwall. Plenty of inbreeding there. Not just a nasty slur either!

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The idea that the Cornish are special and somehow different from everyone else is a load of codswallop.
Many Cornish left Cornwall to go to America, Canada, Australia, London or anywhere else where they could use their mining skills or seek alternative employment when their local industry declined. That means that there are probably millions of people of Cornish descent all over the place and I happen to be one of them.
Despite this, the locals don't see you as one of their own unless you were born there apparently.

They will never take the knee for the non-Cornish. You can have a day pass due to your Cornish descent but then must 'go back'.

Each to their own. There's enough who do to fill the pubs quite comfortably. Beards and muddy boots are almost obligatory here by the way.

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There was undoubtedly a huge exodus when mining downturned and Cornish miners were in demand the world over. I believe there is somewhere in Argentina where you can buy a pasty today.

People who can trace their roots to here are always welcomed back. I had some American guests a couple of years back who traced their family to a village on the Lizard, went there and enquired at the pub whether anyone with their surname still lived there. Within a very short time they found a whole bunch of new relatives and were busy working out the links. They had a hell of a party.

You should try it.

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I didn’t doubt there was a long history but, as I stated, many other areas have as long, if not longer history, so Cornwall is no different to them