01-13-2023, 10:16 AM
(01-13-2023, 09:11 AM)DJC link Wrote:Sorry Thry, but there are no Anglo-Saxons. It's simply a made up (and possibly racist) term that is generally applied to folk who come from the British Isles. In fact, British folk are a blend of Celts, Picts, Britons, Saxons, Jutes, Gaels, Scots, Norse, Romans, Numidians, Flemish, Normans, Germans and probably many other ethnic groups.
Furthermore, "persons of colour" are defined as "not European" although there is also a self-identifying definition; "someone who does not consider themselves to be white."
"Phil the Greek" was born in Greece and was of the Greek and Danish royal families. His maternal grandfather, Prince Louis Alexander of Battenberg, was a naturalised British subject who changed his name to Mountbatten and paved the way for Phillip to eventually make his home in England. Philip left Greece as a young child after the abdication of King Constantine and never spoke Greek. He grew up in France and Germany, spoke English, French, and German and said that he thought of himself as Danish. Although raised as a Greek Orthodox Christian, Philip converted to German Protestantism as a teenager.
Are you saying he would be viewed as an equal and not an inferior specimen?
Im not saying its right, but what im saying is that greeks are closer to Egypt than they are anything else.
These people dined out on racism. Anglo-Saxon is not a racist term, it is the holy Roman empire embodied.
Thats not to say they were English solely. They are the origin. Of white Britain and northern Europe.
I reject the premise of a United European vs everyone else mentality.
There is a reason Yugoslavia and the Slavs earn that name, and slavery didn't begin with black people
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