Cornwall

Debroos said:
Actually I have to take issue with that, having known a lot of Cornish folk.

You have to have been here at least since the 1800s!!
And the Padstow folk might even take issue with that.
Trouble is they have been fleeced by the English for hundreds of years so who can blame them for feeling resentful...

They are certainly in the minority in Cornwall though.
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Up here if you live south of the border your either English or Welsh.
The Fifers had their own kingdom, and the Shetland Islanders will tell you they’re not Scots. But me being half Irish, the whole thing just confuses me. I have a UK passport, I was born in the UK, and I am British, and happy with that.
 
I’m interested in ancestry and I think many would be surprised if they traced their tree how diverse backgrounds are. I have forebears from Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales and I think this is very common. I’m just very lucky to be a citizen of the United Kingdom.
 
Debroos said:
Actually I have to take issue with that, having known a lot of Cornish folk.

You have to have been here at least since the 1800s!!
And the Padstow folk might even take issue with that.
Trouble is they have been fleeced by the English for hundreds of years so who can blame them for feeling resentful...

They are certainly in the minority in Cornwall though.
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Fleece by the English 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 how far back are you going. It has been part of England for over 1,000 years. Would you like a apology from the English it seems like everyone else does.
 
Debroos said:
Actually I have to take issue with that, having known a lot of Cornish folk.

You have to have been here at least since the 1800s!!
And the Padstow folk might even take issue with that.
Trouble is they have been fleeced by the English for hundreds of years so who can blame them for feeling resentful...

They are certainly in the minority in Cornwall though.
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Ha ha, well can I take issue with that. Whenever things like this are stated it isn’t the English, Scots, Welsh Etc it’s the privileged and powerful!
 
2cv said:
I’m interested in ancestry and I think many would be surprised if they traced their tree how diverse backgrounds are. I have forebears from Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales and I think this is very common. I’m just very lucky to be a citizen of the United Kingdom.
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True on my mothers side but my father's people were all from the same six rural parishes in the Scottish uplands as far back as 1700...except for Annie the barmaid from Glasgow who entered the family in about 1860! I would love to know what they made of her...
 
Fisherman said:
Up here if you live south of the border your either English or Welsh.
The Fifers had their own kingdom, and the Shetland Islanders will tell you they’re not Scots. But me being half Irish, the whole thing just confuses me. I have a UK passport, I was born in the UK, and I am British, and happy with that.
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At one point everyone blamed the British for the worlds wrongs now it seems like we have narrowed it down to that mongrel race the English. (y) 😂
 
Lets not forget the Romans after all what did they ever do for us.
As i said mongrel race the English. 🤣
 
Fazerloz said:
Fleece by the English 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 how far back are you going. It has been part of England for over 1,000 years. Would you like a apology from the English it seems like everyone else does.
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I'm a blow in. Only been here 50 years!
I was being tongue in cheek actually.
But the Cornish are a different ethnic group with their own language (yes it has died out but it is proof that their roots lie with the Bretons and the Welsh firstly, then with the Gaelic and Gallic speaking groups). They never considered themselves English.

I can't remember the detail now but hundreds of years ago they were granted a seperate status similar to Jersey and the Isle of Man. This has never been repealed.

I doubt they would want an apology from the English, they just want them to bugger off.
Having said all that I don't think there are many younger Cornish that feel that way...hence the tongue in cheek!
but there is still resentment of incomers...
 
Nabsim said:
Ha ha, well can I take issue with that. Whenever things like this are stated it isn’t the English, Scots, Welsh Etc it’s the privileged and powerful!
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I'll take your issue and raise you one!!
That's really interesting because you are right. It's actually on 2 levels.
The people I am talking about are the mostly poor local people who have lived in Cornwall for hundreds of years or more. And they are fierce about their roots.
They do tend to be ruled by the folk you describe who, the locals would say, have only been there as usurpers since the Norman Conquest or Tudor times and do not have local blood...
 
Everybody has a axe to grind over some point in history. Look up Harrying of the North. 75% of the population wiped out. That's why appologising and blaming things long gone is pointless.
 
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