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[–]Psychosomatic 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Behold my pride in the shared experience of being White British 🖕

[–]Site_rly_sux 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Oh ok. So would that be the saxon-speaking english or the gaelic-speaking highlander or the brythonic-speaking cornish. Because those are three separate cultures with different ancient history, ancestry, religion, experience of Rome, food, language, literature, theatre, political organisation, ethnicity, haploid genotype, etc etc. It's not a monoculture except for in your imagination maybe. There is still a border between the Brits and the Celts. They kill each other, today, because they don't think they're the same people, like you seem to.

And of course. None of those are the same as Slavic or Finno-Ugric. Which is what I've been saying this whole thread: that there is no common whiteness. And you seem to be agreeing with me, here

[–]Psychosomatic 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

What you are succeeding in, is dissecting a generalisation to its finer details of subcultures when it was unnecessary. We could discuss my specific regional history and how it relates to me, but that wasn't my point. You can be proud to be who you are no matter which subculture you belong to.

[–]Site_rly_sux 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

We could discuss my specific regional history

The point of this thread and the op image is that you don't have a regional history.

You have a white history and that's it. Nobody is British, nobody is Irish, nobody is French - they are just white. Any difference between Brit and French is erased: you are just white, you are not white British. By claiming that Britishness exists, you're eliminating the singular property of whiteness. No - you aren't British with a regional history - you are solely white, exactly the same as Germans and Albanians and so on.

I am arguing against that. I have said over and over again that whiteness does not exist, but ethnicities do. I agree that you might be overwhelmingly some British ethnicity with a regional history. That has been my point the whole thread. Glad you are agreeing with me.

[–]Psychosomatic 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

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