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Sniff.....smell like Taff to me.
They weren't labelled the "west Welsh" for nothing.....
I believe that legends and myth are largely made of
“truth”, and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Indeed it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who would know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the “truth” one could still barely endure-or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.
Nietzsche
To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.
Heraclitus
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What do you folks make of this?
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To be honest, I can't be bothered reading the original article.
I will say this, however; Cornwall's position makes it less likely a refuge for older pre-Celtic Britons, than many parts of Wales.
I would expect more input from the 'original' Continental Celtics in the Dumnonian peninsula, and would say the same for the greater part of England, where this type has survived the Germanic invasions genetically, if not ethnoculturally.
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Odd statement. Particularly if one pays a visit to Cornwall's old cemetaries... The ethnicity is extinct, though there is some degree of local identity. However, to claim they are "Anglo-Saxons" is a bit of a wishful thinking.
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Why? What do you see there?
I live just over the border, in Devon, and have been in Cornwall quite a bit lately. I go to see the parish churches when I can, in hope of early mediaeval sculpture, mostly, but I look at the graves outside too, from simple nosiness. Graves both old and new show a high proportion of peculiarly Cornish surnames, most of non-English origin from a linguistic point of view.
The language died out. The Cornish stayed where they were. There is an immense sense of local identity.The ethnicity is extinct, though there is some degree of local identity.
I think you could call it ethnic, indeed. The thing is, the way we talk about these matters here on such fora is not how ordinary working men and women talk. That's why people are a bit iffy about whether the Cornish are an 'ethnicity' or not; this is not a natural English word, but a learned term.
It might be a good idea to approach this like a trained poll-taker, market researcher or political surveyor; Don't ask a Cornishman or an Englishman whether there are ethnic differences between them. Ask other subtler questions, that have more deeper connections to what 'ethnicity' actually is.
I suppose a lot of the relevant points of the 'ethnicity checklist' would receive a 'tick'.
Nah, it's pure idiocy!However, to claim they are "Anglo-Saxons" is a bit of a wishful thinking.
Though Cornish nationalists should acknowledge that there IS an Anglo-Saxon influence in Cornwall, even in BLOOD. There was some early penetration of West Saxons across the Tamar.
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Yes, Germanic peoples have had quite a bad press since WWII when governments decided to link "Germanic / Teutonic" with Hitler's concept of "Aryanism"
[QUOTE]What the hell man?! What have they done to us? Nothing! The Swedes and Estonians amongst other peoples have been quite good to us I think (and we're not exactly a easy country to get along with).
Most research on British origins is done by just that, Brits, although there's Oppenheimer who's done a bit on it too, he's a German Jew.
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