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ATG said:
oyster said:
Can you please tell me what Anglo Saxon Christian culture is?
Bede's Ecclesiastical History? Favourite read of Tommy F Robinson and all his little helpers.
Not-The-Messiah said:
Breadvan72 said:
Not the Messiah, I am going to assume (perhaps unwisely)
Also, no culture is fixed. It is historically daft to suggest that one particular cultural group which happens to have occupied a particular bit of land has some innate right to remain the dominant culture in that locality. Cultures are, however, robust. Western culture has existed in a slowly changing form for millennia. It shows no sign of going away. It is the most successful form of culture known to have existed. It has produced the best solutions to human problems, by inventing things such as democracy, the rule of law, and capitalism. It is also very militant and armed to the teeth.
[Edited because typo-Nazis R Us]
You most be the biggest supporter of colonialism and empire I've ever come across. You most see the how the aborigines and native Americans have been treated in the past as totally fair and reasonable. It is historically daft to suggest that one particular cultural group which happens to have occupied a particular bit of land has some innate right to remain the dominant culture. Also, no culture is fixed. It is historically daft to suggest that one particular cultural group which happens to have occupied a particular bit of land has some innate right to remain the dominant culture in that locality. Cultures are, however, robust. Western culture has existed in a slowly changing form for millennia. It shows no sign of going away. It is the most successful form of culture known to have existed. It has produced the best solutions to human problems, by inventing things such as democracy, the rule of law, and capitalism. It is also very militant and armed to the teeth.
[Edited because typo-Nazis R Us]
Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 21st September 13:52
Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant, innit.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guns-Germs-Steel-history-...
Breadvan72 said:
There you are going off with the mind reading PHAILZ again. I don't think that anything I have written could reasonably be read as indicating support for Colonialism (and I write as someone related to Thomas Clarke, the first signatory of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic at the Easter Rising in 1916 - my family know a bit about being on the wrong end of Colonialism) . If you would like to understand why Colonialism happened, I suggest that you read Jared Diamond's excellent book "Guns, Germs, and Steel".
Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant, innit.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guns-Germs-Steel-history-...
Interesting 1916 connection there. The only family history I have that I'm aware of is my Granny being stopped at Fairview in Dublin by an RIC policemen. She and her friend were cycling in to the city and were stopped about two miles from the city centre. The policeman told them that there was "A spot of bother in town".Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant, innit.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Guns-Germs-Steel-history-...
Eric, perhaps understatement is one of the attributes of white Anglo Saxon culture!
I've just had a quick Google on this term, and results seem to be all about White Anglo Saxon Protestant culture, which is an American phenomenon. Nothing about the UK in the first couple of pages at least.
It surely is a thing that is only definable in terms of what it is not. And in a country like ours that takes in everything from the terraces at Millwall to the little old dears brewing a pot of tea in the church over the road.
Putting people into imaginary bags is not helpful, leads to assumptions, and at worst is deadly dangerous.
I've just had a quick Google on this term, and results seem to be all about White Anglo Saxon Protestant culture, which is an American phenomenon. Nothing about the UK in the first couple of pages at least.
It surely is a thing that is only definable in terms of what it is not. And in a country like ours that takes in everything from the terraces at Millwall to the little old dears brewing a pot of tea in the church over the road.
Putting people into imaginary bags is not helpful, leads to assumptions, and at worst is deadly dangerous.
Culture is always going to be difficult to describe, it is just what we are and yes it will evolve over time.
The potential change is here is not our culture slowly evolving it is importing a different one.
Send your white non muslim wife / daughter / sister to go and live in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia and see if they can then identify any cultural differences.
The potential change is here is not our culture slowly evolving it is importing a different one.
Send your white non muslim wife / daughter / sister to go and live in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia and see if they can then identify any cultural differences.
Eric Mc said:
Interesting 1916 connection there. The only family history I have that I'm aware of is my Granny being stopped at Fairview in Dublin by an RIC policemen. She and her friend were cycling in to the city and were stopped about two miles from the city centre. The policeman told them that there was "A spot of bother in town".
"The row in the town" some called it. The new expo about it at the GPO on O'Connell Street (late Sackville Street) is very good. My maternal grandparents were Empire loyalists with a picture of the King in their parlour. This changed when the Auxiliaries beat up my grandad (not the Black and Tans - they were quite well behaved in general - it was the Auxiliaries, a force made up of the sort of people pictured not far above, who caused most of the ruckus.) My granny was selling apples from a handcart outside Croke Park when the Auxiliaries machine gunned the crowd. She lost her handcart in the stampede that followed. Of course, these may be family legends. My paternal grandfather (his family were diehard Fenians and Communists, and he was related by marriage to labour leader Big Jim Larkin) claimed to have had a drink in Toner's Bar on Baggot Street with James Joyce, but I reckon that Joyce was probably in Zurich by the time that my grandad was old enough to drink in Toner's. I was in Toner's last month, and it is still a fine pub. Here's the GPO not long before the rebels were forced out by the British twelve pounders ("the English Huns/ With their long range guns", as goes the song) . Tom Clarke is the moustached figure standing behind Pearse and Ceannt (in IRB uniforms) while Connolly is the wounded guy on the stretcher.
Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 22 September 09:38
Eric Mc said:
I'm struggling to work out what this "White Anglo-Saxon" culture actually is. Any examples of it please and where does it actually exist?
Drinking lots of And for '16 uprising connections,I used to have a secretary who was the great something grand niece of Michael Collins, although she didnt look much like Liam Neeson
TooMany2cvs said:
Roofless Toothless said:
I've just had a quick Google on this term, and results seem to be all about White Anglo Saxon Protestant culture, which is an American phenomenon.
Nothing ironic at all in them complaining about migration swamping the "native" culture, is there?Quite so, and if she had fought harder at least we would have had better looking and better dressed racists, so I blame her for everything. This thread and the Trump thread contain all, I dunno, ten or twenty or so liberals in the whole of the gibbering right wing echo chamber that is NPE.
Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 22 September 09:54
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