Why do they call themselves Celtic when the huge majority of their population speaks English, a Germanic language with a large Latin/French vocabulary?
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Anonymous2008-01-26 2:44
cause they're racist
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Anonymous2008-01-26 3:06
The Scots invented much of the modern world. And whiskey to keep the Irish from destroying it. They can call themselves whatever they damn well please.
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Anonymous2008-01-26 7:11
>>1
The old theory goes that the Anglo-Saxons came from Germany and replaced all the indigeounous populations of England, but didn't make it as far as Wales and Scotland. The problem is DNA testing disproves this theory and shows Brits to be almost the same ethnically. It's more likely Brits were all one "race" to begin with and the Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Celt invasions had a minimal impact.
Did you read that survey of British genetics? 90% of Britfag genes are 'aboriginal', ie stone-age pre-celtic genes. Every invasion since has contributed surprisingly little in terms of genetic variation. Personally, I don't see why Britfags don't celebrate their ACTUAL roots as native britons, the decendants of the builders of Stonehenge, rather than focussing on later invading groups like the celts or English, just becxause they happen to speak those languages.
Maybe because Celtic languages survived in Wales, Ireland, Scotland and even Brittany (Bretonfag here) ?
Anyway, languages is not all, migrants from Africa who speak English do not become Germanic, Latin or Celtic, it's ridiculous...
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Anonymous2009-12-22 6:37
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Translators are aristocratic class oppressors who use the idea that non-english languages are somehow sacred as a fraud to get people to pay them to translate shit.