My Cornish neighbours are proud of their heritage and culture. They know they are legally English and that I am too. I won’t ever be Cornish, as there is no way that can be acquired, but I am already accepted as someone who respects, enjoys and treasures Cornish culture. I will be at the Sea Shanty Festival tomorrow, singing along with the Fisherman’s Friends and thousands of others. No barriers there. Should an “incomer” have children with Cornishman or woman and they grew up here then those children would certainly be accepted as being Cornish.

Just seen this thread and I laughed out loud.

Can you not see what a contradiction that is?

If you can't become Cornish, then by the same logic you can't become English.

I don't think the science of all this is really the defining point of this argument.
What is clear is that most people on Earth are allowed to hold their culture, heritage, identity and race in high esteem, except it seems for the English. Perhaps most of Northern Europe suffer from this to a large degree.

If you are White and a bit pasty, it seems that the left and some of their minority friends want to condemn and vilify any sign of nationalism or any pride in or ownership of identity whatsoever.

This is clearly prejudice in the purest form.

You try to perpetuate this attitude with the ridiculous self hating nonsense you post on here.

As for your French grandmother. You are part French. You have some French Heritage. Seems fairly simple. You are also mostly English, presumably.

You are apparently not Cornish despite living in Cornwall, however I have never lived in Cornwall but have a lot of genetic heritage from that area.
Despite that, the locals would not accept me as Cornish I'm sure, just the same as I won't accept someone from pakistan as English.

Fairly straight forward.

So are they Cornish or English?

In the context of the discussion. Which was about Cornwall. Which is not a town.

DNA

Everybody who has done a DNA test will have seen a ton of different strands. Paddy & Mickey could be IRA men planning the next march. Staunchly pro Irish and anti British. Yet one has 10% British DNA and the other doesnt. Both lads look and talk and think similarly.

Noel Gallagher could have 100% irish DNA , hence the IRA fella is more of a Brit than him ?

And if you got some Viking DNA does that make you Danish ? And was it a nice respectful marriage or was it Rape ? Similarly with Stalins organised Rape gangs across all of Central Europe.

halfway between marriage and Rape is girls being trafficked and other coercive economics. A significant proportion of people in the Middle East have British DNA from the Viking Slave Trade. In the year 900 there were literally shiploads of girls trafficked to Constantinople. Later the Barbary Pirates did something similar, for the Courts of the Sultan in Istanbul.

we probably all have crimes in our DNA. Both perpetrators and Victims. You just have to go back far enough. Like Gengis Khan, crimes leave a DNA footprint. Over the last 10,000 years you are almost certain to have a warlord with a harem in your family tree.