Les Britanniques ne veulent plus être britanniques
Lors d'un sondage fait par le journal The Guardian, sur 16.500 personnes à travers tout le Royaume-Uni, plus de la moitié des personnes interrogées a préféré se dire écossais, gallois, anglais ou irlandais plutôt que britannique – préférant se référer a une nation plutôt qu'a une zone géographique : la Grande-Bretagne, qui, si l'on y inclut l'Irlande du Nord, correspond au Royaume-Uni.
Le Royaume-Uni reconnaît 4 nations : l'Angleterre, le Pays de Galles, l’Écosse et l'Irlande du Nord. Les Îles anglo-normandes et l'Île de Man ne sont pas considérées comme des nations mais comme des fiefs de la reine d'Angleterre. Beaucoup d'habitants du Cornwall, qui n'est pas reconnu comme nation, ont préféré indiquer "autre" que de se dire anglais, note le Guardian. À noter que seuls 19 % des Écossais se disent "britanniques" ainsi que seulement 30 % des Gallois.
(voir le site) du sondage.
Philippe Argouarch
■Devon = Celtic? No. Yes our DNA contains a significant % Celtic DNA but we are Germanised. Only racist focus on historical DNA to promote cultural affinity and all you do is promote a Us Vs. Them narrative. Living in one of the poorest parts of Devon I find it laughable that we are accused or oppressing the Cornish…! I acknowledge the cultural oppression but the economic woes are something felt by all working class people.
Cornish nationalists loath anything Celtic being associated with Devon.
Also the historic Anglo-Saxons did not invent capitalism and have little to nothing to do with modern discourses. The modern use of the term “Anglo-Saxon” in the US is predominantly used by “people of colour” to describe an oppressive system of white supremacy that originated in a English colonisers but is today very much upheld by white Americans of all European backgrounds. Celtic descendant Americans are not some oppressed people. Maybe you should stop using the term as you do now-?
I grew up in a self sufficient and down to Earth community… but I don’t need any Celtic identity to feel affinity for any set of ideas.
I also feel unable to talk to my half-Chinese children about my Irish background (1/8)… because my great grandfather was church of ireland and born in what became NI… and during the troubles, men like him, despite considering himself to be Irish, were considered non-Irish interlopers by the Republicans…
This is why Ethno-nationalism annoys me.