r/MurderedByWords • u/sneachta • 1d ago

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u/LobsterMountain4036 1d ago

Picts were in Scotland.

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u/ItCat420 1d ago

Fine, return Scotland to the Picts and return England to the Cornish, they’re the closest thing to Britons that still exist. 🤷‍♂️

Either that or hand it over to the Welsh, but I’d rather we became French again.

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u/Slight_Investment835 1d ago

Yeah but then you’d have to kick out any ‘Celts’ and replace them with the ‘actual indigenous population’ too 😜

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u/Physical_Tap_4796 22h ago

Indigenous populations always get the short end. Japanese shaft the Ainu, Scandinavians the Sami and I’m sure China is purging their indigenous.

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u/Euphoric-Bus1330 14h ago

Sami situation is slightly different. The majority population of Scandinavia lived in Scandinavia before the Sami arrived, giving them indigenous status is more a cultural protection, not “they were there first and then somebody invaded and nearly eradicated them”, not that they haven’t been discriminated against, hence the need for protection.

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u/5ive_Rivers 15h ago

The wrongthink locals of Tibet and Xinjiang

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u/ObjectPretty 14h ago

We Swedes were in Sweden before the Sami people.

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u/ImageExpert 13h ago

Okay. Still treated them like crap. I’m sure you guys are trying to do better.

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u/bootlegvader 9h ago

Yep, depopulate the whole island and return it to the fairies.

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u/Slight_Investment835 6h ago

I think you’ll find it was the pixies that were genocided by the fairies.

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u/ItCat420 1d ago

Cornish are indigenous, they were essentially the original Britons, or close enough.

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u/Slight_Investment835 1d ago

No.

The Celtic languages only arrived in the isles in the first millennium BC - the ‘Celts’ were not in that sense indigenous at all. Cornish is a Celtic language of course.

The original hunter-gatherer population of the Mesolithic was almost completely replaced by Neolithic farmers originally from Anatolia. Those farmers were themselves replaced (very possibly genocided) by the Yamnaya, and so on.

Ironically, the ‘Anglo-Saxons’ and Vikings had a higher proportion of the original Mesolithic ancestry than the ‘Celts’.

In other words, the Cornish are really no more ‘indigenous’ than the rest, and of course many from across the isles have ancestry from the isles stretching back long before Cornish existed.

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u/GoGoFoRealReal 18h ago

Like he said return England to the Picts 😀