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Entry: Englishmen, and Other Aborigines Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/englishmen_and_other_aborigines#438 Post contents: As Prof Stephen Oppenheimer's recent book, The Origins of the British, has demonstrated, the Aboriginal British populated the whole of the British Isles after the last Ice Age. In the Neolithic period, Celtic tribes brought farming to the North and West, and Northern European tribes to the South and East. As a result the Irish, Welsh, and Scots had a Celtic language and culture, and England, at the same time, an English language and culture. All this happened five thousand years ago. Therefore insofar as there were British, these were subsumed before the dawn of history, into the different racial groups we refer to as Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English, with the English having been the largest group since the Neolithic period and having spoken English well before any Angles or Saxons set foot there. The BBC has a problem with refering to people as English, because it is exclusive, and implies a greater entitlement than British, which however can equally be ascribed to anyone from anywhere on the planet who has obtained a British Passport, despite neither cultural, historical, religious, or ethnic affinity with the people of the British Isles. Rest assured, the English know who they are, and having been around for thousands of years are not likely to forget, despite the endeavours of the BBC to create a false reality. Sent at: 2008 12 02