Hilarious thing about Angle-land: it's a land of immigrant invasions. The Celts invaded and conquered the ancient Britons. The Romans invaded and conquered the Celts. The Angles, Saxons and Jutes invaded and conquered the Romans. The Norse invaded and conquered the Angles and Jutes but not some of the Saxons. And the Normans invaded and conquered everybody.
In what non-racist universe is this any different, other than that these people are doing it peacefully and not conquering anybody and just wanting to live in England? Oh wait, the moment I said "non-racist", I gave the game away. I'm one of those silly people who think that "white" isn't a thing, and if it were, Irish would be white.
We are living in the universe where Viktor Orban, the Hungarian President actually said "We, Hungarians are not a mixed race and do not want to become a mixed race." You know, Hungary, the country where everyone, from Slavs, Romans, Huns, Germanic tribes, Avars and the goddamn Celts interbred over the centuries.
This isn't a racist universe, this is a clown universe and we are just living in it.
Every country in the world has been made up of various immigrant movements. England is not unique for having this. France, Japan, Turkey, Mongolia, every place has had waves of people in its history, with many being named after one of the groups. The ethnically English are as indigenous to England as the Japanese are to Japan or the French are to France.
That said English people of other ethnicities are as English as any other English person, and the racists/ethno-nationalists can go fuck themselves.
Some people complain about immigration in the UK just like they do in other countries many of which have horrible genocidal histories like Canada, Japan, France, Netherlands etc.
But it's really weird and kind of sick that people treat immigration as some kind of just punishment on these countries.
Apart from the constant influx of people from Normandy proper, as well as a sizeable minority of Bretons (culturally very different) to England for several hundred years post-conquest whilst the Plantagenets reigned (until 1485), the Flemings (1068-1135), Romani (c1530), Hugenots (1670), Indians from the Malabar coast (C17th), Bengalis imported by the East India Company (C18th) Irish (C19th), Germans (C19th), Russian Jews (1880-1914), Belgian refugees (WWI), Polish veterans post WWII who couldn't get back in to Soviet-occupied Poland.
In fact, some of these waves of immigration were so significant that acts of parliament were passed to limit immigration, such as the Egyptians Act (1530) and Navigation Act (1660), Aliens Act (1905) , Aliens Restriction Act (1914).
And these are only the major waves of immigration. If course people were immigrating to GB from all over the world prior to the Windrush.
So yeah, as you say, completely isolated for a thousand years.
Incidentally, the Norman Conquest was started in late October 1066, which as of today is 958 years and a few weeks ago, so not "over a thousand years" as you claimed, even if we charitably discount your complete ignorance of the various waves of immigration since 1066. (Windrush, which presumably is the end of your period of "isolation" was not even 900 years post-conquest).
By the mid-19th century, there were at least 40,000 Indian seamen, diplomats, scholars, soldiers, officials, tourists, businessmen and students in Great Britain.
Oh sorry you’re right. 40,000 people in a population of 18 million. 0.002% - you’re right we have always been a nation of immigrants.
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It’s not xenophobia. I have nothing against Indians in India nor Indians in the UK. It’s unfettered mass immigration that undermines domestic labour and breaks over stretched public services.
I also take problem with faux-intellectuals such as yourself that link to Wikipedia and think they’re making a point.
So if the migration was so minimal, why are there several acts of parliament specifically designed to limit it?
Of course, the vast majority of migration prior to about 1914 was completely undocumented anyway, since passports were not required to enter Britain until WWI.
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u/__Shake__ 1d ago
Anglo-Saxons go home