Oh yeah, this guy. He's getting schooled so many ways I could build a bibliography from it
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Replying to @medievalhistory @r_schneide and
Not to mention Anglo-Saxon (Jute, Frankish) migration, before them Romans (who brought EVERYBODY, Libyans, Sarmatians, Syrians, etc etc)
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Replying to @medievalhistory @r_schneide and
And before that the Celts themselves, who come from Central Europe & contrary to pop belief did not build Stonehenge (centuries older)
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Replying to @medievalhistory @r_schneide and
And who knows before that? Hundreds of English words have unknown origin w/no indo European origin (e.g. dog)
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Replying to @medievalhistory @r_schneide and
Didn't stop after massive viking settlement or later Normans. Think of all the French Huguenots and Dutch dissenters in early modern period
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Replying to @medievalhistory @r_schneide and
There is literally no extended period in recorded history that Britain was not a melting pot of immigration.
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Replying to @medievalhistory @r_schneide and
The experience of Jews in England suggests that the place was not what we today would call a melting pot.
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Replying to @crimkadid @medievalhistory and
The Danes massacred on St. Brice's Day and the Flemish weavers attacked by Wat Tyler and co. probably did not see the English as tolerant.
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Replying to @crimkadid @medievalhistory and
I think you're mistakenly conflating diversity with tolerence
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Replying to @mattlaschneider @crimkadid and
Indeed. There have always been xenophobes, and they have always lost
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No, it was the Jews who lost. They had to leave. And the Danes lost too, they died.
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