Comments by "Iain Mc" (@iainmc9859) on "English DNA: What is the Genetic History of England?" video.

@rasapplepipe Although I appreciate your Cornish patriotism it has been administered as part of England since the Norman Conquest and had substantial inroads made into it by the Anglo-Saxons (Wessex) before that. We can't turn back time to a pre-English age, we can in the present day protect and encourage the use of languages and allow for regional devolution and government (it works on the Isle of Man). As to giving back Cornwall to the Cornish if you could just define who the Cornish are, are you talking about the people who live there now or people who own property there now, people who have a Cornish name, where the border would be, the Tamar, the Fowey ? There's also the little matter of how it would finance itself, as it has a large population of rural poor and no industry to speak of other than largely tourism and some agriculture. I'm not against the idea but practicalities would have to be worked out.
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Aye, yer very funny but they must be real 'cos I always cheer for the team they're playing against 😆
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The majority of Scots say Ji, unless they're trying to sound posh. I'm with you on ancestry testing companies, they talk a lot of rubbish culled from various sources so generally don't waste your money; unless you're prepared to do your own in depth scientific research as to where the haplogroups have drifted from. There's also a lot of genetic 'rinsing' that goes on, where genes just don't pass on. The science of DNA analysis is still in its early days. There's also the risk of putting your DNA on the database of a profit making company, that may also have politic pressure put on them to divulge that info to state agencies - that all sound very conspiracy theorist, which I'm not; but data harvesting does happen without asking our permission.
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@michaelchampion3056 It doesn't take much of an internet search to prove my point. Here's a large cut and paste from the first site I came across, talking about post 1068 ... ''Soon afterwards most of Cornwall was granted to a Count Brian of Brittany, but he is an elusive figure and little is known about him; he fought at Hastings/Senlac Ridge and took part in the 1068 campaign, but subsequently forfeited his lands after he took part in a baronial rebellion against the King [William 1st] in 1075. Soon after his lands in Cornwall and Devon were bestowed on a much more important figure, Robert, Count of Mortain. The great Domesday Survey of 1086 shows Robert to have been the holder of 277 Cornish manors, valued at £424, which virtually represented the whole of the county apart from a further 18 royal and 44 ecclesiastical estates.' As to specifically 'Cornish' DNA could you just reference your source and how this differs from southern Cymric DNA and or Breton DNA or DNA from any other Brythonic Celtic area. I'm all for regional patriotism, and I'd never dare to say you are not what you 'feel' to be but that must also be tempered by a realistic view of cultural, linguistic, genetic and political variance over time. You haven't answered who the 'Cornish' are that England would be giving Cornwall back to in 2024.
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@DerekLangdon-w9e So, if Cornwall wants its freedom from England (and I'm not in any way questioning your right to feel non-English) organise a Referendum, decide who's allowed to vote ... is it anyone who lives in Cornwall, anyone who owns property in Cornwall, anyone whose got a Cornish name or do you have to prove that one or both of your parents were born in Cornwall, or maybe have three generations of antecedents all born in Cornwall, or you actually have to be a able to speak Cornish ... decide what the qualifying factors are to vote in a Referendum. Don't just complain about it ... get organised and form a political party. BTW good luck at persuading Westminster to allow you a Referendum. All three of the present largest political parties are firmly Unionist.
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