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Originally Posted by Der Elsasser
It is what I thought, you cannot even stop.  So let's go.
I speak a Latin language, my culture is mostly Latin (with a strong Germanic element). Maybe 400 years ago Elsass was totally Germanic, but as I already said you, I live in the present, and currently Elsass is mostly Latin with a strong Germanic element. And now only 40% of the Alsatians speak Alsatian (unfortunately, have to say) while 100% of them speak French.
Not any Alsatian would say he is latin ? I think I know Alsace better than you and lots of people define themselves as Latin and Germanic at the same time, and it's also my opinion. |
France has made those Germans latin people? Well ,you've just given us the evidence France is an artificial State fighting ethnicity. It's true Elsassians are becoming more and more an uprooted people , like all those who are under French rule unfortunately. What frightens me is that you seem to be glad of it.
By the way, 400 years ago you said? No comment, really.
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Originally Posted by Der Elsasser
It's just your opinion anyway. You're quite right about Anglo-Saxons (Americans, Canadians, Australians), and I changed my mind about them. But Quebecers kept their French and European heritage, they have more or less the same culture than the French, ... I feel really close to them, but as a Breton nationalist who rejects France, you cannot understand.  For Argentinians, I met one of them, and it seems that they consider themselves as "Europeans from South America" (as Afrikaners in Africa), unlike Anglo-Saxons who almost created another civilization. |
I know well several Quebecers and Afrikaners and I've lived in their country. They are Americans and Africans. They deeply feel their land are respectively american and african, not european. About Argentinians I couldn't tell you.
About whites from Southern Africa, a distinction must be made between the Afrikaners and the Anglo-saxons. The Afrikaners are descendants of Dutch, German and French protestants who settled there a very long time ago, roughly the same period as the Quebecers, the Acadians, the American WASP settled in the Americas. They completely cut their links with their original lands. The Anglo-saxons who settled in South Africa arrived later and pushed the Afrikaners further north (the big Trek). Nowadays most of them living in Southern Africa have kept a British passport. They feel South African, Zimbabwean (well, not any more!) but the clearly still feel British too. But do they also feel European? not sure, difficult to say... as you said the Anglo-Saxons have their "world".
Anyway, if some kind of black revolution rises in South Africa, all the Anglo-Saxon whites will flee to the British Isles as they did during the Zimbabwe anti-whites events, while the Afrikaners will have no choice but to fight pehaps to death, especially rural and elder people. Younger people will settle in the US or Australia and start a new life as some are already doing. But they would't go to the Nederlands, Germany or France as their land of origin.
Another point : in their mentality, they are not European at all. They react completely differently as they live in a completely different continent with a different culture they made on their own.