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Bad news for the Europhobes - 50% of us are German
// Top geneticists together with archaeologists who have spent years on dig sites in the UK, the experts conclude that 50 per cent of us have German blood flowing through our veins.
It stems from the Germanic tribesmen, Hengist and Horsa, who came ashore on the Kent coast in 449.
'People from rural England are more closely related to the northern Germans than to their countrymen from Wales or Scotland,' said professor Haerke. //
http://www.dailymail....an.html#ixzz1PpBQsT4c
It stems from the Germanic tribesmen, Hengist and Horsa, who came ashore on the Kent coast in 449.
'People from rural England are more closely related to the northern Germans than to their countrymen from Wales or Scotland,' said professor Haerke. //
http://www.dailymail....an.html#ixzz1PpBQsT4c
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Errr Europhobes are an insult term used to describe those who think countries should be running their own affairs rather than joining up in some Europe-wide conglomerate and having the same unsuitable rules imposed across all. How is the genetic news item you refer to mean bad news for such wise folk ?
i would imagine that we have a far greater mix than that. If i could find a way to take a genetic test, i would, to determine my path to who i am. And considering that the scientists, archeologists are redefining the world we live in, our part in it, and our so called heritage. I still consider i am English, and so a person born in Germany would say they are German. I read an article a while back of a woman who took one of these tests, she always thought of herself as white, middle class, well to do, if you get the drift, but in fact, her genetic makeup was romany, thrown in with people from the Basque area, and so forth. We are all mongrels, don't mean to offend anyone, but there you are.
/// That is too narrow a definition. A Europhobe dislikes all things European - especially our brothers, the Germans.///
No such word Gromit, the word is Euro-sceptic, and that is someone that wants us out of the EU, nothing wrong with that, I hear plenty say.
How can anyone hate everything European, we ourselves are European, there are many who like certain goods made in Europe, and as for the Germans they are lovely people.
I think you had better stop reading the Daily Mail or at least stop using their links.
No such word Gromit, the word is Euro-sceptic, and that is someone that wants us out of the EU, nothing wrong with that, I hear plenty say.
How can anyone hate everything European, we ourselves are European, there are many who like certain goods made in Europe, and as for the Germans they are lovely people.
I think you had better stop reading the Daily Mail or at least stop using their links.
"No such word Gromit"
Oh dear, have you alerted those poor, illiterate Oxford Dictionary people?
http://oxforddictiona.../definition/Europhobe
Oh dear, have you alerted those poor, illiterate Oxford Dictionary people?
http://oxforddictiona.../definition/Europhobe
Hardly surprising. apart from the people you mention there will be the people who fled Germany during the war. I dare say if they look further they will find a large percentage also have French, Norwegian, Danish and Spanish Blood. Proper mongrels we are. One of the reasons I find this obsession with "British" ironic.
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