Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "The Rise of the Moors: ‘We Want Our Own Nation’" video.
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@GAZ87YORKSHIRESALT I'm not English DlCKHEAD, but I am of Anglo-Saxon heritage.
Then again Britain was invaded by so many over such a long time and had so many tribes but their stamps on Britain its hard to even classify what "being British" actually means.
Fun facts
The Angles come from Southern Denmark.
The Saxons from Saxony which is part of Germany?
All those very British towns ending with "by" like Whitby, Northby,...etc. are actually Viking towns. The "by" means village.
Then there's the places founded by the Romans like Bath.
The Normans who invaded in 1066 weren't French but were actually Vikings who'd settled in France. The word Norman comes from Northmen.
Then there's the actual Bretons, and their offshoots like Welsh, Gaels, Celts, Manx, Cornish and others.
And one of my favorites the British Royal Family's real name isn't Windsor its Saxe-Coburg and Gotha because that was Prince Alberts (q. Victoria's husband) family name, but someone didn't think that would be a good name for the British Royal family so they went with Windsor. Go look at the Wikipedia page for "House of Windsor."
Yeah sorry but we study a lot of British history in Australia or at least did when I went to High School. 200 years of our own doesn't compare to over 2,000 years. And then we've also had those BBC documentary series by people like Simon Sharma shown here. Some of those are very flattering on our cultural heritage.
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