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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => History => Topic started by: rangerrebew on December 16, 2017, 02:19:04 pm
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Why the idea that the English have a common Anglo-Saxon origin is a myth
December 15, 2017 by Duncan Sayer, The Conversation
The idea that there is a common Anglo-Saxon ancestry based on biology is gaining currency among some right-wing and religious groups in the UK and US.
In the UK, the new leader of the UK Independence Party, Henry Bolton, suggested in a radio interview in October that "in certain communities the indigenous Anglo-Saxon population is nowhere to be seen."
In August, a religious group called the Odinist Fellowship wrote to the Church of England demanding two churches as reparations for a "spiritual genocide" which it claims began in the seventh century AD.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-12-idea-english-common-anglo-saxon-myth.html#jCp