So what you are saying here.....from what I understand is that the traditional British culture is heavily influenced by Normans.

I disagree with you. Norman culture was restricted mostly to the aristocracy and the landed class because there wasn't an overwhelming influx from Normandy following 1066.

That's why the genes on this island are majority anglo saxon and not Norman.

The Normans themselves were actually originally Norsemen (or Vikings).

Culture itself is influence by genes....but that's another story and probably a little controversial for you.

Edited by Stirlingsays (27 Nov 2018 11.40am)

I changed my post a little from the version you replied to because I was a bit too emphatic.....but the point still stands.

My source:

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Also I know from British history that the Normans didn't expand much into the working class peasant culture but focused its strength in the landed classes.

The English, who have bred on these islands for over a thousand years are mainly a northern European and regional mix......I've never stated otherwise.

You need to accept accuracy and precision rather than me I'm afraid.

Edited by Stirlingsays (27 Nov 2018 11.54am)

Well that 'French' immigration was from around 10,000 years ago......There wasn't even a France then...Pretty much all of Europe was a similar 'Gaul' type.....long before any Angles or Saxons, Romans, Danes or her next door turned up.

For obvious reasons, the Germanic DNA is large and recent and hence that has a significant affect on what makes up the English.

I don't know what you are waffling about with your 'French' culture in England malarkey.....Maybe you've had one too many cossants for your breakfast over the years.....each to his own.

As for your belief that it doesn't matter where your DNA comes from......Yes and no.......An intelligent person is intelligent regardless of their genes origin. However genes do have an affect on culture....but that's a complicated tangent away from this topic.

I didn't use to value being a WASP but now I do.....because I see its existence under threat.....But that doesn't mean that only WASPs can be English.

Edited by Stirlingsays (27 Nov 2018 3.12pm)

You and that Lidl in New Addington.....Do you have shares in it or something.

Her next door is a sort......If I were twenty years younger......I'd be 29......and she'd still probably turn me down.

Never mind.

Too German.....Sainsbury, Waitrose or Tesco.

Gotta make the most of it whilst we still have it. It’ll be illegal if you so much as look at it from April. And German cabbages will be subject to the kohl tax.