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What's the issue with this one?pic.twitter.com/IX2S530811
Um, 1066 for starters, plus the early English, by and large, didn't refer to themselves as "Anglo-Saxon."
So (genuine question), what should someone who is say 95% descended from people from Saxony refer to themselves as if they wanted to?
They should figure out why that's so important because it's rally meaningless. They could say: Hi, I'm someone descended from Saxony, but I was born in X and that makes me an Xian.
Hmm in my limited life experience I've noticed people like groups and adjectives : I'm Xhosa, I'm Flemish, I'm Basque etc. If someone wants to alter/remove a term then it helps to have a substitute to sellpic.twitter.com/dMilneG51b
(deleted 1st response cause I wasn't clear) Anglo-Saxon was not a term widely used by the early English. Do you mean someone from Saxony in Germany? The thing is it's the English who use that term, and its inaccurate. There is no such thing as someone being 95% "Anglo-Saxon".
I think that's what I mean. Occasionally someone will ask me if I'm descended from Saxons, Normans, Vikings or 'native' English.. My friend knows he's from Scottish/Viking stock.. Can't there be a noun for someone with Saxon genes if AS has got to go?
In the Sherlock Holmes book The Speckled Band the main character is described as being from one of the last great Anglo Saxon aristocratic families of Surrey and that's always stuck in my mind. What adjective should Conan Doyle have used to make the destinction with Normans?
I can tell you right now that genetically there is very little difference between anyone who are descended from people living in England from before 1066 and anyone who arrived after, because everyone intermarried. The comparison with ancient DNA and modern is highly contested.
You can say where your family was from, the history of how they moved from place to place, where they lived. But ultimately everyone is a mix. I should also say that descent did not define ethnicity and there were many other markers that did.
Someone for instance who was descended from the peoples living in Britain and whose ancestors spoke Brittonic, but eventually decided to speak Old English etc. may well have just ID'd as English because language was more of a marker of ID.
Thanks for the input Admiral much appreciated!
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