Re: Map of Brittany and other Celtic countries : 0-2000AD
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Originally Posted by Aled
Well i got the sons from doing >>> Mebyon to the Welsh Meibion which means Sons, there was a Welsh nationalist group back in the 70's and 80's called Meibion Glyndwr that went about burning down English peoples holiday homes and planting bombs on railway lines to kill the "Prince of Wales" sadly it did not succeed.
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The Sons of Glyndwr sound similar in tactics to Scottish Watch and Settler Watch in Scotland.
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Nationalism cannot be based on any ethnic pretext since as it is an invented construct, language is merely another construct used to highten this sense. Language can be used as Linda Colley said as constructing the 'Other' something to unite against, this is also viewed in the forging odf British national identity during the French and Revolutionary wars, most notibly in Nazi Germany against the jews.
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I think you are confusing Statist Nationalism with Ethnic Nationalism here.
Of course, there can be no such thing as British Nationalism because in ethnic terms there is no British nation. England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland are nations. Britain is a political union of these nations, ie. a State.
To be in favour of Britain is to be Unionist, not Nationalist.
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As for Celtic Cornish blood line, much like Anglo-saxon blood line they have been compleatley bred out through migration patterns spanning from the norman conquest to the more recent industrial revolution.
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The Anglo-Saxon bloodline is very much evident, at least in the paternal line.
But I agree, that Cornwall had a Celtc past and retains a fossilised Celtic culture, but I don't really see the people as being distinct enough from the rest of England to constitute a meaningful identity anymore.
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