UPDATE 2022: two newer studies since this video was made show that the initial replacement of natives by Anglo-Saxons was as high as 75% and that modern English people have between 25-50% DNA from the Germanic invaders. However the Anglo-Saxons for most of their history were already mixed with Britons so this means that for most of the Anglo-Saxon period an Anglo-Saxon person was genetically 100% the same as a modern English person ie: a mix of AS and Briton. Learn more here th-cam.com/video/BBUea_HM83s/w-d-xo.html
Hey, Tom. After watching both this video and the one linked back to back and doing some thinking, I was wondering from your perspective - do you still consider the modern English as Anglo-Saxon, or has this study changed your perspective at all to some degree? In short, can the modern English still be called Anglo-saxons?
@@Samuel32425 Yes the English are Anglisc - it means the same thing. As I said we are nearly 100% the same as the people of Middle and late Anglo-Saxon era
Also, the oldest currency is the Sterling. Anglo-Saxon era. Most place-names and surnames are Anglo-Saxon. My father has an Anglo-Saxon surname, mother has Cornish surname. I am Anglo-Saxon-Celtic 😊
We dont have a french heritage. England was created by the Anglo-Saxons, hence we are Anglo-Saxon (Englishmen). The normans integrated. We will never be french. Deal with it boy @jonnyneace8928
I am German and a native Saxon from Westphalia Germany northwest... And I have been in England several times and indeed I felt more and more like an englishman the more I visited this wonderful country... I discovered we are from the same tribe.... and I love it🏴❤️🇩🇪🌹
Westphalia and Lower Saxony is still Saxon. Schleswig-Holstein is Angle. And we have a Frisian etymology name of a bundaslander I forget the name in Germany, as well as Frisia in Netherlands. And finally the Jutes of Jutland. On continent or on land we are Anglo-Saxons.
I'm German, but wanted to live in England since I was 12 years old. I've lived her since 1974 with an interval, to be with my mum in Germany. There's definitely a connection. I don't know, why I love this country so much. I even found people in Germany, looking like people that I know in England. Very strange. Just wish we didn't have those wars.
If you had traveled beyond those two countries, you would have had the same reactions finding resemblances to people you knew before. I have had it happen to me when I moved from the US to a Mediterranean country when I was 10. I thought I saw schoolmates from my old school, though it was obviously not the case. This has nothing to do with genetics but human perception.
There is a new series of BBC educational animations for children. In one episode they depict a typical Roman Britain family as multi-ethnic. A black man with a white wife and mixed race children. This point of view will become the norm for the following generations unless these lies are called out and challenged.
I found a bunch of screen captures from the series for anyone interested. This "history" series also portrays black Celts, a black blacksmith in Iron Age Britain, A black medieval nobleman, A black Norman priest etc. This is the kind of history that the BBC is now teaching to our children. It is disgusting, they are rewriting the past to conform to their multi-ethnic agenda. www.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/6pxflx/this_is_how_the_bbc_portrayed_a_typical_family_in/
Apollo Olympos That is shameful, to indoctrinate the youth with a history of lies. The beauty of History is that try as they might the truth always comes out eventually.
They should give Jive a children's show. It's clear from the last video that he's a lot better at explaining things than the current lot at the BBC are.
As an Englishman I am flattered that you are interested in English history. Don't let a minority put you off this. I, like you. am interested in many cultures that are not my own. European have always been at each others throats but after two massively destructive wars, and 70 years of peace, I think that it is unlikely that we will start another one.
@@par517 Your ancestors never ascended their worship of chthonic totemic -fallible and primitive- deities, hence they never truly dominated their naturalistic impulses. Attempting to transcend the merely material world and interloquire with the divine, as the Roman, Greek, Egyptians, ect... did, is impossibile without a solar consciousness of the overworldly. Thence why most africans never aspired to edify great empires or civilizations. The genesis of each secular civilization was spiritual. The central sacred palace of Babylon, the "Ziggurat", was namely defined as the "ring between earth and the sky". Rome was edified by Romulus, which according to tradition, was son of Mars. The blood line of pharaohs who ruled over Egypt was considered in parity to the gods, for the ability to draw spiritual force from the sun "Sa". Africans' devotion to inferior femmine cults, deprived them of the utopian leap that characterized other civilizations of heroic masculine spirituality. Supporting reason also to why their development was so tarried compared to other European or Asian societies and why other nations had a seemingly easy time conquering them.
Celts and Anglo cultures are too different to be mixed not to mention how violent and stubborn the two cultures are known to behave like they also do not look the same generally, where all the colonies went also generally 1 3rd to half of the migrants were direct celts so England is still generally the same people not her colonies
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Dont believe your own ancestry til you have it tested. Turns out most peoples grandmas either lied or didnt know how to do geneology properly. Most people, before they get a DNA test, are incorrect about their ancestors. My mom thought she was part native american. Turns out we are all 100% european. Which is kind of odd for an American whos family has been here since the 18th century...
It's a nationality also, everyone born and raised in England has ties to the English nation and Great Britain. So they are English and British in their nationality, but ethnically you are referring to genetic descent to Anglo-saxons/celts/historic tribes living in England.
It can be more than one thing. Ethnic designation for the people who arrived in the great migration period. The modern Englishman, who is more of an amalgamation of anglo-saxon, Celtic, Norse and Norman stock. A cultural designation for the people of England. Whether it be the first unified English nation under an anlgo-saxon king, or the diverse England of today. At the end of the day Marcus Rashford was born in England, wears the England shirt, speaks with an English accent, and he's entitled to an English identity, in a socio-political and cultural sense.
@@ATIWatchReviews Yeah citizenship doesn't mean sh*t. Ethnicity means a lot - extended family, tribe, bound together by common ancestry, cultural traditions... in fact, that is really what nation means.
It's up to the individual and how he or she feels about themselves and who they connect with. I feel and prefer to be known as English and not British. I have a right to feel this.
I’m a second generation Indian immigrant living in England and I love watching your channel. It’s a shame that P.C identity politics allows everyone to be proud of their origins apart from Europeans and the English in particular
@@jonathanaldridge4114 Denying information is the key to ignorance. "The Media" never had an agenda to defend because they do not represent any single political or philosophical entity. If you read or watch more than the sources that you already find agreeable to your views, you might get a better perspective of reality, but if you start with a blatant lie like that, you will never get beyond being a fanatic believing the things. you want to believe and feeding off of them, rather than the inconvenient truth. Some of us and not just a few, are incorrigible. As for "the British", how. do you assume the mantel to represent them? Anyone elect you?
Me too. I don't need Brits to throw away their history and genetics to feel welcome. I know this shit can very quickly devolve into implied or even explicit statements about racial superiority, but do we have to abanadon all interesting ideas if some lunatics latch on to it? I'm brown, and I still enjoy learning anglo-saxon history. Britain is my home, I don't have to have roots dating back a thousand years to feel some of sense of pride in Nelson and dislike of Napoleon. It's also why I HATE seeing all these black and brown people in period drama where they stick out like a sore thumb. I've fucking seen paintings of Anne Boleynn, she ain't black. All it does is distract from the scence. Just as it would ridiculous to make a TV show about the premier league today with an all white cast, or even where only a small minority are black. Now, if a Nigerian drama troupe decided to perform one of Shakespeare's plays, that an entirely different matter. I'm not expecting Nigeria to import a bunch of white people and overcast skies for a production of Macbeth.
Thank you. I live in the U.S. and most of my ancestors arrived here in the early 1700s but the genetic profile you shared today for British matches my profile perfectly.
Envy. We set the global standard for centuries. Wherever we went creating abundance and prosperity. Others think they can just take it and it will be just as good with them helming it.
@@Threemore650 "Wherever we went creating abundance and prosperity." This is exactly why we think you are racist, because you are. That simply isn't true. The west advanced industrialization, but to say they made other's lives better is ignorant as BEST.
In the U.S south basically where the Confederates basically where we also say Anglo-Celtic referring to both the English and the 6 Celtic nationalities
I just use anglo-celtic, I mean, I do it to piss the Irish fetishists off: "Reee mAh oppressed Celtic population of the empire" Right, is that why we let paddy and donald marry our daughters?
Most white people in Australia are either anglo or celtt or a mix of both.But only recently, last 50 years was there wide mixing ,as marriage between church of England and irish Catholics was frowned on by society.
As a Belgian, I'm honoured to hear I share 9% DNA with the English. I've always been interested in History and culture and currently, after finding this awesome channel, feel very inspired to make videos on them to share knowledge from a Belgian perspective.
Belgian DNA ? these studies are truly lacking i worked and done research on European haplogroups and there is really no notable DNA difference to justify Belgium to have it's own DNA group surrounded by the Franco/German halpogroup, and then there is this video, the english are just about as Germanic as Latin since it depends on whether you define French as Germanic tribes or Romance and Celtic people.
Not just you but everyone in europe shares dna with the English, and it could be recent. Like thousands of British veterans 1918, brought home Belgian/French wives.
“Our ancestors took this land, they took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they fought here and they built here and they’re buried here. This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bones.” English and proud. 🏴
I guess by my appearance alone I'm a northern European. With an anglo saxon southern english father and a Scottish highland mother who is descended from a french norman family. mixed with a bit of highland celt I suppose, makes me quite happy. Greetings to all my British brother and sisters.
I identify as an Angle (Family traces from Germany, Denmark, Britain) so it is interesting to see that there is very little difference between myself and other friends who (for instance) identify more as Celtic. What is far more important is the point made that all NW Europeans are of one tribe and that we are quite distinct as an ethnicity. I hear so many young Brits complain that the don't feel they have an identity so this video is doubly important for them. Be proud!
I'm aware of my Germanic English roots now, coming from East Anglia. Half of us looked like Midwich Cuckoos at school. But we weren't taught about our heritage, or identity. That came later in my 20s and was down to me.
This is now one of my favourite videos on youtube. Brilliantly lays out who we are as English people. A Northwest-European ethnic group. Specifically anglo-celtic. Anyone like Adam Rutherford who comes along with that "Muh Romans" shite is just trying to deconstruct our identity and failing to do so.
As a Mediterranean person, I apologise for the racist ways my people have treated yours in the past. I promise you most Mediterraneans respect Northern European cultures, and aren't trying to brand you as Trojan or Roman. It would be cool however if Northwest European peoples still kept their tribal identities. Als mediterrane Person entschuldige ich mich für die rassistische Art und Weise, wie mein Volk Ihre in der Vergangenheit behandelt hat. Ich verspreche Ihnen, dass die meisten Mediterranen die nordeuropäischen Kulturen respektieren und nicht versuchen, Sie als Trojaner oder Römer zu brandmarken. Es wäre jedoch cool, wenn die nordwesteuropäischen Völker ihre Stammesidentität behalten würden. Fel person Môr y Canoldir, rwy’n ymddiheuro am y ffyrdd hiliol y mae fy mhobl wedi trin eich un chi yn y gorffennol. Rwy'n addo bod y mwyafrif o Fôr y Canoldir yn parchu diwylliannau Gogledd Ewrop, ac nad ydyn nhw'n ceisio'ch brandio fel Trojan neu Rufeinig. Byddai'n cŵl fodd bynnag pe bai pobl Gogledd-orllewin Ewrop yn dal i gadw eu hunaniaeth llwythol. Välimeren alueen ihmisinä pahoittelen rasistisia tapoja, joita kansani ovat kohdellneet sinun aiemmin. Lupaan teille, että suurin osa välimerellisistä kunnioittaa Pohjois-Euroopan kulttuureja, eivätkä yritä merkitä teitä troijalaisiksi tai roomalaisiksi. Olisi kuitenkin hienoa, jos Luoteis-Euroopan kansat säilyttäisivät heimoidentiteettinsä.
@@SxVaNm345 Mediterranean is a broad term and you may be talking about the populations in Northwest Spain or Lombardy but I'm sure the people of the Syrian coasts do not share your opinion. Maybe you could read about how the Americans treated Mediterranean immigrants in the past
*“Some people reckoned up all King Harald’s (King of Norway) great achievements, and said that nothing would be too difficult for him. But there were others who said that England would be very hard to conquer. It was very populous and the warriors who were known as the king’s Huscarles were so valiant, that any one of them was worth two of the best in King Harald’s army”.* - Snorri Sturluson (1178-1241) - Medieval Icelandic Writer
The Normans wrote with begrudging respect about the Anglo-Saxon Huscarls. One Norman knight wrote that he had fought in Palestine, France, the Italian states, and all over Christendom; of all the warriors he fought, he said none were as ferocious or fanatical as the English Huscarls he fought at Hastings.
Great topic, very timely as certain media and education entities have taken it upon themselves to re write our history and heritage. It's so important that we keep objective fact based history alive. Nice one Tom💪
I notice that many British people today seem to show some problems with the idea of being Anglo-Saxon. From a french point of view, this word has always been used to describe anything English/British. It is been applied in french language to talk about the English derived countries, that is to say Britain, USA, English-speaking Canada, Australia... the question if the population is or not descending from Anglo Saxon is irrelevant to us. With internet discussions about these subjects I noticed that a lot of British people deeply reject being called Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, or even northern European; while Britain is obviously all those things. Anglo-saxon because it is the root of the English language, Germanic because English is a Germanic language and northern Europe because it is obviously where the UK is located since ever. Seems like if many British people wanted to dissociate themselves with the other countries of the north sea area such as Netherlands, Denmark, or northern Germany.
The British people are decended from the Bell Beaker people they replaced about 90% of the Neolithic farmer the one that built Stonehenge They came from the lower Germany. about 4500BC by 600BC they became Brythonic speakers and some time during the Anglo Saxon Invasion if there ever was one changed the Language to a Germanic one . I still have no explanation how a Germanic Language came to this Island, its still A Mystery Brythonic was still being spoke in Briton when the Anglo Saxons came in Cumbria,Cornwall and Wales but by 1300 it became extinct in England they only place u can here is now in Wales and Cornwall.
It's not a problem if it was true but 85% of us are Anglo- Celtic the Welsh and Scott's keep harping on that we are not true British god they be shocked when they find out the truth.
According to recent reaserch conducted by oxford an average briton had 40%germanic,60%briton and 0%viking or norse classical writers describe viking as savage,blood thirsty,and rapist but real thing is they are more gentle they left a little trace of dna
One only needs to travel across the country to be convinced that the main stock of the English comes from Schleswig. You know the Dutch Frisians, in particular those colossal Frisian women with their delicate white and fresh red complexions (which also predominate in Schleswig). They are the ancestral types of the northern English, and in particular those colossal women, who are also found here in England, all are of decidedly Frisian type. Frederich Engels in a letter to Karl Marx (seriously, lol)
I am from Kazakhstan. Currently learning about the ethnic groups of Europe. Particularly English and German. I love J.R.R. Tolkien movies, helps me learn more about his England
I love these videos by this dude. It totally explains my Celt, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic dna. As an American it’s hard to know exactly where my ancestors came from, even after a dna test. This puts it into perspective so well.
@@sassythesasquatch1571 Saxon’s were mostly Christian while they were Pegan originally they quickly lost their Pegan beliefs the moment that Christianity began to have prominence in fact the Saxons were one of the first people to become Christian
I really wish more of the general pre-history/early history of Europe would be covered in schools. Videos like this do a great job making up for that! It is really nice to see someone interested in the topics this channel covers who, isn't obsessed with discredited (modern) anthropological theories, BTW!
In old Atlantic Canada (where British Loyalists settled) there is a resurgence in pride and interest in our Anglo-Saxon heritage. It's quite funny the common thought since I was young is many of us were bred heavily with French colonists and Irish after the famine. I took an ancestry DNA test which claimed I was upwards of 85% English with 15% Irish DNA. It's incredible how people even away from their homeland culture prefer to breed with their own. After looking more into my family history and my DNA results, I feel compelled visit Britain and feel great pride when I read the old Saxon poems.
Same here in my family (at least until my dad married my mom who's a little more than half Czech), my dad took a DNA test saying that he was 80% English and 12% Irish with the rest being traces of Scandinavian and Western European.
Anecdotal evidence but I remember reading a book about WWI and the Canadian regiments that were raised. It said a lot of the volunteers were Canadians of British or Irish birth (many of whom had served in the British Army). Obviously it would depend on the region but it said something like 20% Scottish, 20% Irish, 40% English, the rest Canadian born or other. It happens in all English speaking countries. People seem to have an aversion to claiming English ancestory. They will be Scottish, Irish, French, Welsh, etc. anything but English. Despite England having by far the biggest population and by far the most emigrants through history. We so the same in South Africa when we lived there. The (British) white South Africans would always say they were Scottish or Irish rather than English, despite having a quite clear English surname! I am sure the Aussies are the same. And we know the US Americans just love all their Irish ancestry!
Andrew Fairweather explain what you mean? What great increase in interest in Anglo-Saxon culture is there in the Atlantic provinces? I mean I hope you are right but I highly doubt t.
We are the English. An ancient celto-germanic people who have existed for 1500 years. We are part Brittonic, part Anglo-Saxon, and we have been left untouched for the past 1000 years. The Normans left almost zero genetic imprint. And the Vikings not much more. (The Normans and Vikings were Germanic in origin anyway). Yet some like to dismiss our culture and call us a mongrel race. How laughable. English and extremely proud.
Simple fact is: our forefathers came from Northern Germany. For a while, the first Germans were mercenaries, who bred with the local British women, until later German women began to cross the channel. Like I am the offspring of pure blooded English father, and Welsh mother. I am proud to be English and Briton
@@PhilipCunningham1788 Yes, indeed I do, it's (very) accurate because most Aussies are a mix of English, Irish, Scottish (and to a lesser extent Welsh, Cornish or Cumbrian) genes. Even some of our ancestors from one country had surnames from another country, eg ancestors from Ireland but with English surnames. Our society is similarly mixed in terms of its cultural heritage, eg religion. Edit: And another thing that just occurred to me is we have a mix of English and Irish rail guages!
Yeah, pretty much just refers to the fact that pretty much all of the colonists of Australia were either Irish, Scottish, English or Welsh. Irish, Scottish and Welsh being the 'Celtic' and English being 'Anglo'.
Thank God there are people out there like you Thomas! ... And thank God for the internet - we'd be sheeple without it. ... Can you imagine what what it would be like if they turned off the net, and we only had the mainstream British media, a Nightmare world! ... Keep doing what you're doing.
What irritates me the most, is the fact people think the history of England began in 1066AD 🤦♂️ Followed by the ignorance and/or denial of our Anglo-Saxon heritage
Celtic and Germanic mix gave us this beautiful race. A nice mix. Of course I’m biased as a midwestern American who before coming here 225 years ago my ancestors were a nice mix of Welsh and English
Many generations of my family have lived and are native to East Anglia. I am proud to be English,and with this I am proud to be a descendent of the Anglo-Saxon peoples.
As an Australian with Anglo-Saxon/English heritage, I feel in a weird spot because living in a very ethnically diverse country, many people identify with their ancestry very strongly which is wonderful and has made us a very accepting culture. Therefore many people here are proud of the country their ancestry is from. But for someone like me who is very proud of their English heritage, it seems like we are quick to pass off Australia's influence from England even though it's still the predominant ancestry and most of Australia's culture and identity can be traced back to English culture. A lot of that comes from our country's colonial past and white guilt, plus the whitewashing and near-annihilation of the country's Indigenous population. You get a sense here that people would sooner say White or Caucasian when referring to white Australians rather than specifically English. Terms like Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Celtic or simply Anglo are sometimes used however. By a similar token, certain 'white' Aussies will express pride in having Irish or Scottish heritage, in part due to these culture's history of rebellion and struggle. It might just be me, but I get a feeling all this stuff is taboo in Australia and people don't really want to talk about it, even though it's clearly part of our country's identity.
Australia is a very warm, welcoming & multicultural country, however the majority demographic of Australia has been Anglo-Celtic since early colonial times, and remains so today. I wouldn’t say it’s a taboo topic to talk about, but most people probably don’t see a reason to, or think/care much about that aspect. Also, it’s pretty obvious Australia is a heavily British/Northern European county, like Canada, New Zealand and Sweden.
@@bunnyvillainy The English are a mixture of AS and Britons - and the Britons were colonised by Spanish types in the Bronze Age. (See: mass migrations into Britain in the Bronze Age). But British scientists classified the Spanish and Southern Europeans as Black - so the English are Black.
Thanks for this excellent video! My father was German (Rheinland-Pfalz, descended from the Franks), my mother was English from Yorkshire (thus, of Danish & Anglo-Saxon origin). I consider myself to be 100 percent Germanic. Your conclusion, that we of North-Western Europe are actually one people genetically, is especially appreciated by me. I have tested at 23andMe, AncestryDna, and FTDNA: all have determined that i am 100 percent European, about 1/3 British Isles, 1/3 Scandinavia, and 1/3 West-Central Europa (Germany, France).
I am half Greek, half Hungarian & U.K. (less than 1/4 English). I have been learning their lores and ways of speech (with German) for some time now, and aside from the sear wonder of the Anglo-Saxons, the tongue of Old-English & Archaic-Modern-English hath been the most fond to speak. Behoovingly so, the English were always of the most well-spoken.
We have Anglo-Saxon, Briton/Gaulish/Irish, and Norse blood 🏴 I love my Germanic heritage. Jealous fools won't deny me my right to exist as an Englishman. My wife is Italian/Chilean, she identifies as Roman!
And to be considered Maori in New Zealand depends on your "state of mind" or " Whakapapa" meaning all you need is 'one' Maori ancestor. So even just 1percent maori blood makes you indigenous/native. Cancelling out any other predominant mixture. Must be to make up for demographic decline or their sense of "Genetic Superiority". Bloody ridiculous if you ask me.
Does that make you Maori by race, however? Maori are an ethnic group. Furthermore, there are tons of Maori that still have a great amount of genetically Non-foreign ancestry. Plus, one ancestor or not, that's not the point. If none of your parents can be considered Maori, then nor are you Maori. Though blood quantum laws may be a thing there, traditionally it has more to do with lineage.
I have Several Anglo Saxon ancestors the Harrison's and the Johnsons , both from border clans in Scotland , Northern England , both immigrated to Australia and married Irish and Scottish women move to the alps mined for gold and raised cattle ! The border Saxons had some of the biggest family feuds in Scots history IE the Maxwell v Johnson feud which went for generations ! Anglo Saxon history is amazing ! Thanks for the video
What irritates me is these fools that claim that you can be English merely by being born in England. I once knew this black woman who used to make comments like, "I'm cold, it must be because I'm English" and I just used to think it was ridiculous.
@@egotisticalgodofdestructio7555 From Wikipedia: "The English people are an ethnic group native to England. English people primarily speak the English language of the Germanic language family and share a common history and culture. The English identity is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Angelcynn ('family of the Angles'). Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Great Britain around the 5th century AD."
@@egotisticalgodofdestructio7555 Five generations of English people were born and grew up in India under the British Raj. Nobody ever considered them Indian, especially not the Indian people and when India gained her Independence the English who had been born there came to England and were considered as English as anyone else. English is an ethicity. Can a white person be an Australian aboriginal or a native American because they were born on that land?
We are an Anglo-Saxon family living in the Midlands UK (German wife, English husband). Only in UK I have heard Anglo-Saxon is to be banned because it is outdated or racist. Saxons exist in Deutschland and English is from Anglia. England and Deutschland have so much in common so denying we are Anglo-Saxon is a racist jealousy
Here in America just the average American has ancestors from Lower Saxony, Westphalia and Schweswig-Holsten Germany. Where the Angles and Saxons came from. And Denmark where the Angles and Jutes came from. And England, and Friesland Netherlands though broadly Netherlands. So even in America many are justified to call themselves as Anglo-Saxon. I myself am not in that privilege category however. I am Anglo-Norman not Anglo-Saxon.
@@Anglo-Saxon_familie No one? Partially true, no one says Norman unless they say Anglo-Norman, than that's 2% less. But not 0. AKA a number of the very minimal few. like myself. Anglo-Norman =/= Norman there's a difference.
>Crappy Christian Churches >Historical monuments pfft Its also great clicking on videos and seeing a wild Varg going ham making memes in the comment section. "Going ham" means something like "applying dominant force"
Varg is a loser who lashes out regularly against any and every ally. Oh, and he's also a leading Germanic Pagan figure on TH-cam. Good job *throws pen onto desk*
ThuleanPerspective That I did not know. I still assume you support(ed) it. Am I wrong? Not having burned the beautiful stave church doesn't, however, make the the other burnings less moronic...
Cool! :D I've been curious about the continental Anglo-Saxons since I'm half-Frisian half-English, or basically, entirely Anglo-Saxon, which is what I prefer. I was curious to find Frisians had settled in Scotland and that had me look harder at the Lowlanders versus the Highlanders culturally and genetically. So it's curious again to find that even between Anglo-Saxons and Celts that we're splitting hairs almost, at least genetically. Brythonic languages are still alien to me, although "Scots" I find isn't too different from English, really.
The Scots language is a variant of the English language, not in that it was brought in from what is now England (it wasn’t), but in that it is the descendant of the language spoken by the Angles who settled in what is now South-East Scotland. It was given the name Scots in recent centuries to distinguish it from the variants spoken south of the border in what is now England. This is why you find it similar to “standard” English. The language of the Scoti tribe, who gave their name to Scotland, was actually a form of the Gaelic Celtic languages spoken in Ireland. Scottish Gaelic still exists, and is spoken by a (relatively small) number of people. The language of the Picts, which was spoken across much of Scotland well into the Middle Ages, was probably a Brythonic Celtic language, related to the pre-Anglo-Saxon language spoken across all of Britain, but Pictish no longer exists.
I received a DNA test for Christmas and had gotten my results back a few weeks ago. 48% English / 45% Irish/Scottish/Welsh / 7% Scandinavian. I'd grown up thinking I had Italian DNA on my father's side, but because I've never known him I've never been certain. I'm pretty happy with my results though. I'm a proper British lad of the isles! I was quite surprised to see how non-diverse the results were, considering all this talk of us having so much from elsewhere.
@FV Tisiphone Well I took the MyHeritage test kit as it was brought for me as a gift. I know it's amongst the more well-know DNA test kits out there. It has lots of individual ethnic-zoning, for want of a better phrase, so as to get specifics. It also has, and I'm sure most do, a family tree and matches to other users on the database that share DNA with you. I'd happily recommend it.
@Matt I'm 100% sure that there are people much more in the know - regarding genealogy and the like, that'll know of a way of discerning the differences. I know that there are other sites you're able to upload your results to that might give you more accuracy/detail. I see people commenting on uploading to 'GEDmatch', although, I don't know much about that nor have I done so. I used MyHeritage, which fortunitely splits the groups within the British Isles into English and Irish/Scottish/Welsh (Celtic). So you could always upload through that site. Honestly, it seems really hard to get a definitive answer in regards to DNA. I guess it's still early days as of yet. You never know MyAncestry may yet distinguish your results in a future update. All the best, my British bro o/
As a novice I find your manner and presentation really easy to follow, especially the non esoteric way in which you deliver the facts. Excellent video mate.
I'm quite aware of our mostly "mixed" heritage (I'm half Irish half Germanic or Norman with Anglo-Saxon in there too) and I would usually say I'm British or a Briton but I'm quite happy to come under the Anglo-Saxon banner, this is simply the name that closely related peoples in these isles have come to adopt.. A good point on Turkey there - actual Turks were a Mongoloid people, I've only seen a couple with that look - as you say Turks today are mostly of an Arab (or perhaps rather Middle Eastern) and Greek type and then you even have a historic Celtic presence as well (hence "Galatians" in the Bible), as well as that Indo-European Hittite base.
I think we know why the Anglo-Saxon identity is targeted for undermining. My DNA analysis revealed just over half Germanic and the rest Scandinavian and Celtic. I guess the markers that distinguish these various groups are fairly few in number as you say.
rightwingreactionary We Macedonians and Bulgarians are the same people but Bulgarians have 5% bulgar admixture. We are basically the meeting point between Greeks, Slavs and Germano celts. We have the least genetic diversity in Europe but all of the haplogroups are distributed in large numbers. We are basically half slavs, half Thracians/Illyrians/hellenes (depending on geography but all these tribes shared the same DNA), with some germano Celtic and roman thrown in
South Slavs are not closely related to Nordics actually, even though I2 came from northern Europe (I2a started in the balkans) it's almost not present there anymore. We are closest related to other mediterraneans (italians and iberians) and east slavics.
Brilliant video! Thank you for sharing your views on this important topic. Us Anglo-Saxons need more of a voice and a stage on which one can celebrate and rejoice in our ancestors endeavours not shamed for past events that the liberals place their subjective values that then try and guilt trip us. The identity of Northern Europeans and Europeans alike is something to be cherished and honoured, it is truly fascinating and awe-inspiring that our ancestors were strong warriors that would face adversity and had a spirit that is past down from them to us! I'm proud of my heritage, traditions and culture. We are who we are!
One thing that pisses me off is that people like to forget that Lowland Scots also have a high share of Anglo/Nordic DNA yet Scotland as a whole is usually associated with the Celts (I blame part of this on the fact that we are all named after Irish people who came to Western Scotland). Several maps show that the Anglos settled all over Eastern Lowland Scotland. That isn't even factoring in the Scandinavians that also settled in areas in the Highlands, the Shetland and Orkney islands, the Scottish Hebrides and even in Western Lowland Scotland in places like Largs. You can see this reflected in the way Scottish people look and the way they talk. I would argue that the Scots language/dialect is closer to Old English than modern day English is. Scottish people also make an 'oo' sound when saying words like 'house' or 'out' which is the way all English speakers pronounced things before the great vowel shift. Despite the SNP trying to normalise Gaelic and make it seem like everyone's ancestors in Scotland spoke it, it has only been spoken in the Scottish Hebrides and some of the Western Highlands. My surname itself is 'Waddell' which has its roots Old English/Old Norse and comes from Eastern Lowland Scotland which was heavily settled by Anglos/Danes.
I think the reason why people see Scotland as Gaelic is because, as you pointed out, the names, but also because the 'official tradition' or origin myth people told themselves for so long was that Scotland, and by extension the Scots themselves, were Gaelic, due to the Kingdom of Scotland/Alba being originally established as a Gaelic realm(or at least largely Gaelic-speaking/culturally Gaelic). I'd argue that Scotland is probably more ethnically diverse than England(Picts, Gaels, Angles, Britons, Norse)
It doesn't have a high share of Anglo Saxon DNA, the population of the Lothians and the Borders were the same Celtic people that inhabited the rest of the country and spoke a Celtic language similar to Old Welsh and probably Pictish. Many of the places still have Anglicised Brithonic names. It was the period when that area came under the domination of the Northumbrians, a critical few centuries during a time of significant religious, economic and cultural change that saw the partial adoption of Anglo-Saxon culture esp the language. Eventually the lowlands were reclaimed by the people now calling themselves Scots. The economic and cultural power of what was now England however helped ensure that the English language was now there to stay. I suspect the genetic impact is limited in the area and makes up less than 20%. If you want to think of yourself as Anglo Saxon then fair enough but it's just as valid to claim a Celtic heritage in Scotland even if you're from the lowlands.
English is a tribal designation. An immigrant from, say, Pakistan can become British, but he can never become English. In the same sense, I can move to Zululand, but I can never become a Zulu.
Cause they’re not English, same as an Englishman will never be Pakistani. But, but everyone seems to think they can be British while no one blinks an eye lid.
*"The people now living in Denmark and Germany aren't exactly the same as they were back then, genetically... or the descendents of the Anglo-Saxon people who moved from the continent to Britain were already genetically distinct, slightly, from their neighbours"* - I strongly suspect this, and I'm so glad you made these points. They're ones I always have to make in debates on this issue as everyone seems to neglect them.
Steed EOW Speaking as somewhat of an expert on the subject, a German living in Germany, that is true. If you want to see real Germans, as in Nordics and Falics, you must go to Northern Germany to see them as a majority, or, depending on the region, as a total majority. Otherwise, they're spread out, diluted or concentrated in single valleys, cities, towns. Germany has absorbed large amount of Alpine, Dinaric and East Baltic blood since the Frankish conquest and the "Drang nach Osten", or German Manifest Destiny. Most of the time, these non-Germanic elements are those welcoming the migrants in, and those responsible for the perception of Germans as a people without individual courage (a rightful criticism of our Anglo cusins). The propaganda slur "Hun" during WW1 can largely be explained by the presence of the dark and round headed Alpine type in Germany, which is all but absent in England.
@@HerewardtheWake23 That's complete bullshit. It's rather that the German and Danish dna was heavily diluted in the british isles. Go to northern Germany, Netherlands, Denmark and you will find tall lanky robust people. Many of which have light bronze skin, blue eyes and blonde hair. Germanic type. Now lets have a look at the population in England. While these types certainly exist, they are a tiny minority. Most so called english have a look much closer to people that can be found in spain, france and south western germany. Pale skin, dark hair and over all a very non germanic bone structure and facial features.
@@derneue1875 Du glaubst doch nun wirklich nicht, dass die meisten Briten Germanischen Ursprungs sind. Das die wirklich Germanischen Elemente im Deutschen Volk im Nordwesten bis zum Harz und entlang des Rheines zu finden sind sehe ich genau so. War allerdings schon immer so, diese Gebiete sind nunmal die Wiege der Kontinental Germanen. Die Aussage des Original Kommentars is trotzdem vollkommener Quatsch. Vor allem deswegen, weil sie impliziert, das die Genetischen Unterschiede zwischen Engländern und Deutschen, Dänen usw nicht auf geringes Germanisches Erbe in England zurückzuführen sind sondern, ganz im Gegenteil, geringes Germanisches Erbe in Norddeutschland und Dänemark. Da kann man doch nur müde lächeln. Sieht doch jedes Kind das die engländer größtenteils Kelten sind.
What is interesting to me is the fact that there are now more people with significant Irish descent living in England than there are people in Ireland. At one point, I believe there would have been distinguishable differences between Gaels (From Ireland, northwestern Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man), Picts and British (with the Anglo-Saxon influence later). I'm hoping to make a video elaborating on this, specifically the phenotype of the Gaels.
GedMatch says I am slightly closer to modern Dutch and Northern German folk than other English folk. This alone proves we are basically the same since all my KNOWN ancestors are English.
scoring close to the dutch is indicative of high celtic ancestry due to the low north atlantic component and high med component it has. whats your baltic score on k13?
I did the Ancestry DNA test and got 85% British + 15% Irish (I'm from North-West England). So I'm very much a girl of the British Isles. The "British" category is a bit ambiguous but I'd imagine it's the mix of Anglo Saxon and Celt that you describe here. I'd love if they could refine down further though! Physically I have very fair skin, dark brown hair and blue eyes. I've always been told that's a "Celtic look" but I don't know. The physical traits of the people of the British Isles might be an interesting video topic though!
All this bickering between the European peoples about our identity needs to be curtailed, and you're doing an excellent job stopping that bickering. I am 60% English, 15% Spanish, 15% Scandinavian and ~10% "Central European" (German). I love all my European blood, and hold none over the other.
I love these videos because they really help in my quest to understand my ancestors, I am about 70% northwest European, and 40% of that is from the British isles, so I do quite enjoy these lessons in the genetic, cultural, and linguistic history of Europe.
The sociology of identity is fascinating. The difference in messaging on identity for different groups is about fear of what can happen when a dominant group is identity focused, versus what is means for an oppressed group to be proud of its identity. The fear is that if the people with their hands on the levers of power are overtly “proud” of their own group, this very often involves looking down on other groups, which can easily lead to persecution. Whereas, the idea is, oppressed groups are told by the dominant societal norms that they are lesser. Therefore, it is important for them to be able to express pride in who they are, in order to undo that negative messaging and stand up to the uneven power dynamic that works against them. This is the theory, and this is why it leads to different messages to different groups about whether expressing pride in the group identity is acceptable or not. I express neither approval nor disapproval for this conceptual framework in this post.
@@swansea_loyal1115 Not true - the Britons were Celts from the continent, probably Belgian. The Irish were Celts from Gaul - they look like the northern French, Austrians, southern Germans of today. Gaelic is close to Gaulish.
UPDATE 2022: two newer studies since this video was made show that the initial replacement of natives by Anglo-Saxons was as high as 75% and that modern English people have between 25-50% DNA from the Germanic invaders. However the Anglo-Saxons for most of their history were already mixed with Britons so this means that for most of the Anglo-Saxon period an Anglo-Saxon person was genetically 100% the same as a modern English person ie: a mix of AS and Briton.
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Hey, Tom. After watching both this video and the one linked back to back and doing some thinking, I was wondering from your perspective - do you still consider the modern English as Anglo-Saxon, or has this study changed your perspective at all to some degree? In short, can the modern English still be called Anglo-saxons?
@The Anglo Viking we are Anglo-Saxon, with a lot of Celtic blood. It's over 45% Anglo-Saxon here
@@Samuel32425 Yes the English are Anglisc - it means the same thing. As I said we are nearly 100% the same as the people of Middle and late Anglo-Saxon era
Yes, English is an ethnicity.
Leftist identity politics will seethe, Idc
Also, the oldest currency is the Sterling. Anglo-Saxon era.
Most place-names and surnames are Anglo-Saxon. My father has an Anglo-Saxon surname, mother has Cornish surname. I am Anglo-Saxon-Celtic 😊
English people are Germano-Celtic, genetically. And Germanic, by culture and heritage/history. Damn proud of it
Celtic-Germanic...Celtic first
We dont have a french heritage. England was created by the Anglo-Saxons, hence we are Anglo-Saxon (Englishmen). The normans integrated. We will never be french. Deal with it boy
@jonnyneace8928
@jonnyneace8928 Normans are just another variety of Viking.
I’m glad my ancestors got some of that in us even if it hurt a bit at the time.
@jonnyneace8928
Did you know - up to 100 years ago it was common knowledge that London was colonised by Trojans.
We is also Trojan! 😁
@jonnyneace8928no.
Normans are Vikings, same genes different uniform.
I am German and a native Saxon from Westphalia Germany northwest... And I have been in England several times and indeed I felt more and more like an englishman the more I visited this wonderful country... I discovered we are from the same tribe.... and I love it🏴❤️🇩🇪🌹
Westphalia and Lower Saxony is still Saxon. Schleswig-Holstein is Angle.
And we have a Frisian etymology name of a bundaslander I forget the name in Germany, as well as Frisia in Netherlands. And finally the Jutes of Jutland.
On continent or on land we are Anglo-Saxons.
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 indeed the closest ties in Europe... Anglo-Saxons.... Merry Christmas to you take care... 🏴👌🇩🇪🙏
@@albionmyl7735 to you as well. On Britain or in Europe I wish all Anglo-Saxons the best.
Forgot to mention Hannover which is Angle and Saxon
@@albionmyl7735 take care
I went to Schleswig-Holstein and it's great. I felt at home there. I am English and always thought of Germans/Nords as our closest brothers
I'm German, but wanted to live in England since I was 12 years old. I've lived her since 1974 with an interval, to be with my mum in Germany. There's definitely a connection. I don't know, why I love this country so much. I even found people in Germany, looking like people that I know in England. Very strange. Just wish we didn't have those wars.
I’m English and I want to live in Germany 😂would love to move to Saxony and embrace your culture 🍺
@@CalSprigley SACHSEN . Do the English SAXONS use the white Horse on the Banner ? I know in Sachsen they do !
@@markusbuelow7871 I think the old Kentish flag had a white horse on it
@@markusbuelow7871 the white horse is a common enough pub name, from England to America to Australia.
If you had traveled beyond those two countries, you would have had the same reactions finding resemblances to people you knew before. I have had it happen to me when I moved from the US to a Mediterranean country when I was 10. I thought I saw schoolmates from my old school, though it was obviously not the case. This has nothing to do with genetics but human perception.
There is a new series of BBC educational animations for children. In one episode they depict a typical Roman Britain family as multi-ethnic. A black man with a white wife and mixed race children. This point of view will become the norm for the following generations unless these lies are called out and challenged.
I found a bunch of screen captures from the series for anyone interested. This "history" series also portrays black Celts, a black blacksmith in Iron Age Britain, A black medieval nobleman, A black Norman priest etc. This is the kind of history that the BBC is now teaching to our children. It is disgusting, they are rewriting the past to conform to their multi-ethnic agenda.
www.reddit.com/r/CringeAnarchy/comments/6pxflx/this_is_how_the_bbc_portrayed_a_typical_family_in/
Apollo Olympos That is shameful, to indoctrinate the youth with a history of lies. The beauty of History is that try as they might the truth always comes out eventually.
They should give Jive a children's show. It's clear from the last video that he's a lot better at explaining things than the current lot at the BBC are.
+Apollo Olympus - re-writing history.
Apollo Olympos The BBC is a SJW. Has been for years.
50% Anglo
50% Celt
100% Snownigga
@@mikeboss98 Racist is a bad word, didn't your parents tell you not use BAD WORDS.
awesome I wish I had that kind of DNA
As an Englishman I am flattered that you are interested in English history. Don't let a minority put you off this. I, like you. am interested in many cultures that are not my own. European have always been at each others throats but after two massively destructive wars, and 70 years of peace, I think that it is unlikely that we will start another one.
@@par517 Salty about having no history or posterity to call yours?
@@par517 Your ancestors never ascended their worship of chthonic totemic -fallible and primitive- deities, hence they never truly dominated their naturalistic impulses. Attempting to transcend the merely material world and interloquire with the divine, as the Roman, Greek, Egyptians, ect... did, is impossibile without a solar consciousness of the overworldly. Thence why most africans never aspired to edify great empires or civilizations. The genesis of each secular civilization was spiritual. The central sacred palace of Babylon, the "Ziggurat", was namely defined as the "ring between earth and the sky". Rome was edified by Romulus, which according to tradition, was son of Mars. The blood line of pharaohs who ruled over Egypt was considered in parity to the gods, for the ability to draw spiritual force from the sun "Sa". Africans' devotion to inferior femmine cults, deprived them of the utopian leap that characterized other civilizations of heroic masculine spirituality. Supporting reason also to why their development was so tarried compared to other European or Asian societies and why other nations had a seemingly easy time conquering them.
*20 minutes into the Bubonic Plague and chill and he gives you this wisdom*
As always, profound video :-)
i'm gonna get a tattoo of this quote lol
Amazing
of ignorance before, its another kind today!!Go figure!
Celts and Anglo cultures are too different to be mixed not to mention how violent and stubborn the two cultures are known to behave like they also do not look the same generally, where all the colonies went also generally 1 3rd to half of the migrants were direct celts so England is still generally the same people not her colonies
Proud to be Anglo-Saxon. Everyone has an identity. The English language, culture, laws, surnames, place-names, all have Anglo-Saxon roots.
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Not quite all place names. We have a lot of norse place names where I live, due to Norse settlers.
@@MsMounen but Norway was never a part of the British empire right ?
@@KygoCalvinHarris-xu4kv The British empire didn't exist at that time.
@@MsMounen they were Anglo-Saxon origi
I am Germanic and Celtic and I feel like we should all connected with our ancestors
Same
Meaningless gibberish
Nice description of the anglo-saxon
Dont believe your own ancestry til you have it tested. Turns out most peoples grandmas either lied or didnt know how to do geneology properly. Most people, before they get a DNA test, are incorrect about their ancestors. My mom thought she was part native american. Turns out we are all 100% european. Which is kind of odd for an American whos family has been here since the 18th century...
Agreed
The idea that anyone could possibly think that ‘English’ isn’t an ethnic designation just boggles my mind
It's a nationality also, everyone born and raised in England has ties to the English nation and Great Britain. So they are English and British in their nationality, but ethnically you are referring to genetic descent to Anglo-saxons/celts/historic tribes living in England.
It can be more than one thing. Ethnic designation for the people who arrived in the great migration period.
The modern Englishman, who is more of an amalgamation of anglo-saxon, Celtic, Norse and Norman stock.
A cultural designation for the people of England. Whether it be the first unified English nation under an anlgo-saxon king, or the diverse England of today.
At the end of the day Marcus Rashford was born in England, wears the England shirt, speaks with an English accent, and he's entitled to an English identity, in a socio-political and cultural sense.
@@Ashitaka255 No he's not
@@ATIWatchReviews Yeah citizenship doesn't mean sh*t. Ethnicity means a lot - extended family, tribe, bound together by common ancestry, cultural traditions... in fact, that is really what nation means.
It's up to the individual and how he or she feels about themselves and who they connect with. I feel and prefer to be known as English and not British. I have a right to feel this.
I’m a second generation Indian immigrant living in England and I love watching your channel.
It’s a shame that P.C identity politics allows everyone to be proud of their origins apart from Europeans and the English in particular
@Pep the media is corrupt and the British have had issues with it for a while now.
@@jonathanaldridge4114 Denying information is the key to ignorance. "The Media" never had an agenda to defend because they do not represent any single political or philosophical entity. If you read or watch more than the sources that you already find agreeable to your views, you might get a better perspective of reality, but if you start with a blatant lie like that, you will never get beyond being a fanatic believing the things. you want to believe and feeding off of them, rather than the inconvenient truth. Some of us and not just a few, are incorrigible.
As for "the British", how. do you assume the mantel to represent them? Anyone elect you?
Me too. I don't need Brits to throw away their history and genetics to feel welcome. I know this shit can very quickly devolve into implied or even explicit statements about racial superiority, but do we have to abanadon all interesting ideas if some lunatics latch on to it?
I'm brown, and I still enjoy learning anglo-saxon history. Britain is my home, I don't have to have roots dating back a thousand years to feel some of sense of pride in Nelson and dislike of Napoleon.
It's also why I HATE seeing all these black and brown people in period drama where they stick out like a sore thumb. I've fucking seen paintings of Anne Boleynn, she ain't black. All it does is distract from the scence.
Just as it would ridiculous to make a TV show about the premier league today with an all white cast, or even where only a small minority are black.
Now, if a Nigerian drama troupe decided to perform one of Shakespeare's plays, that an entirely different matter. I'm not expecting Nigeria to import a bunch of white people and overcast skies for a production of Macbeth.
@@gazthejaz8910 Similarly, their anglo-saxon heritage doesn't make them "English" either.
They can claim the heritage but not the modern identity.
@@Ashitaka255 how does identifying with your Anglo saxon heritage allow you to not identify as English
Thank you. I live in the U.S. and most of my ancestors arrived here in the early 1700s but the genetic profile you shared today for British matches my profile perfectly.
Me too. I am about half Celtic and half Germanic. My ancestors landed in America in 1648.
I think its important to protect the indigenous people of the world.
Like the immigrants coming into our country and ruining it?
Your ancestors didn't. Their litter is still occupying Australia and America. So what goes around, comes around. Given UK demographics....
@@AminTheMystic the words of a racist and a coloniser
@@scrubsrc4084 True. The original poster is a racist and a coloniser.
@@AminTheMystic no, you appear to be the racist and supportive of destroying a people
I can't believe I've only just discovered this channel. Much needed in this time of cultural darkness and uncertainty.
I am half English. I don't know why people want to deny the English our heritage.
Because they know English people have a direct link to our past. We know who we are. They don't know who they are so they envy our history
Because they want to destroy it. Like the Christians before them, who tried to destroy our traditional beliefs (but failed).
Envy.
We set the global standard for centuries.
Wherever we went creating abundance and prosperity.
Others think they can just take it and it will be just as good with them helming it.
They always try taking away your heritage and giving you a different identity when they process you as a slave.
@@Threemore650 "Wherever we went creating abundance and prosperity."
This is exactly why we think you are racist, because you are. That simply isn't true. The west advanced industrialization, but to say they made other's lives better is ignorant as BEST.
American who is very proud of my british ancestry (81.2%)
Yee Yee! Same here brother ⚡️14
Me too, man. Our ancestors made this land what it is but we're shit on everyday for them doing so. We should resist the nonsense
Anglo American gang (I'm 85%)
What' U mean British maybe (English, Scottish or Welsh and other)
Another American Englishman and i have 50% English DNA.
In Australia we use ‘Anglo-Celtic’ for the white British Isles-descended cohort of the population.
Would seem to cover all the bases.
In the U.S south basically where the Confederates basically where we also say Anglo-Celtic referring to both the English and the 6 Celtic nationalities
I just use anglo-celtic, I mean, I do it to piss the Irish fetishists off: "Reee mAh oppressed Celtic population of the empire"
Right, is that why we let paddy and donald marry our daughters?
Most white people in Australia are either anglo or celtt or a mix of both.But only recently, last 50 years was there wide mixing ,as marriage between church of England and irish Catholics was frowned on by society.
@@redwolf7929 I just use it to piss off the anti-anglo alliance.
@@kingbillycokebottle5484 You don't actually piss anyone off. They just laugh behind your back!
As a Belgian, I'm honoured to hear I share 9% DNA with the English.
I've always been interested in History and culture and currently, after finding this awesome channel, feel very inspired to make videos on them to share knowledge from a Belgian perspective.
harumpf! Belgians don't exist! Flemish descend from Frankish foederati (Germanics) and Walloons descend from Gallo-Romans (Celts)
Please do!
Belgian DNA ? these studies are truly lacking i worked and done research on European haplogroups and there is really no notable DNA difference to justify Belgium to have it's own DNA group surrounded by the Franco/German halpogroup, and then there is this video, the english are just about as Germanic as Latin since it depends on whether you define French as Germanic tribes or Romance and Celtic people.
@@user-kk1lt3pu4o You're the first to mention the idea of something called 'Belgian DNA'.
Not just you but everyone in europe shares dna with the English, and it could be recent. Like thousands of British veterans 1918, brought home Belgian/French wives.
“Our ancestors took this land, they took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they fought here and they built here and they’re buried here. This is our land, mixed with our blood, strengthened with our bones.”
English and proud. 🏴
Which ancestors are you referring to?
@@rayian5891 Anglo-Saxons
@@wearsideexile6616 the majority of the gene pool is celtic
@@rayian5891 Yawn.
@@wearsideexile6616 Anglo saxon superiority is a racist myth
I guess by my appearance alone I'm a northern European. With an anglo saxon southern english father and a Scottish highland mother who is descended from a french norman family. mixed with a bit of highland celt I suppose, makes me quite happy. Greetings to all my British brother and sisters.
I like how you make all these genetic and historical issues so easy to understand. Great.
Very easy when you're oversimplifying yes.
I identify as an Angle (Family traces from Germany, Denmark, Britain) so it is interesting to see that there is very little difference between myself and other friends who (for instance) identify more as Celtic.
What is far more important is the point made that all NW Europeans are of one tribe and that we are quite distinct as an ethnicity. I hear so many young Brits complain that the don't feel they have an identity so this video is doubly important for them. Be proud!
since you found your heritage to be from three different anglo nationalities, does that technically mean you are a triangle?
I'll take my coat...
Yeah, it's all northern european to me.
I'm aware of my Germanic English roots now, coming from East Anglia. Half of us looked like Midwich Cuckoos at school. But we weren't taught about our heritage, or identity. That came later in my 20s and was down to me.
This is now one of my favourite videos on youtube. Brilliantly lays out who we are as English people. A Northwest-European ethnic group. Specifically anglo-celtic.
Anyone like Adam Rutherford who comes along with that "Muh Romans" shite is just trying to deconstruct our identity and failing to do so.
As a Mediterranean person, I apologise for the racist ways my people have treated yours in the past. I promise you most Mediterraneans respect Northern European cultures, and aren't trying to brand you as Trojan or Roman. It would be cool however if Northwest European peoples still kept their tribal identities.
Als mediterrane Person entschuldige ich mich für die rassistische Art und Weise, wie mein Volk Ihre in der Vergangenheit behandelt hat. Ich verspreche Ihnen, dass die meisten Mediterranen die nordeuropäischen Kulturen respektieren und nicht versuchen, Sie als Trojaner oder Römer zu brandmarken. Es wäre jedoch cool, wenn die nordwesteuropäischen Völker ihre Stammesidentität behalten würden.
Fel person Môr y Canoldir, rwy’n ymddiheuro am y ffyrdd hiliol y mae fy mhobl wedi trin eich un chi yn y gorffennol. Rwy'n addo bod y mwyafrif o Fôr y Canoldir yn parchu diwylliannau Gogledd Ewrop, ac nad ydyn nhw'n ceisio'ch brandio fel Trojan neu Rufeinig. Byddai'n cŵl fodd bynnag pe bai pobl Gogledd-orllewin Ewrop yn dal i gadw eu hunaniaeth llwythol.
Välimeren alueen ihmisinä pahoittelen rasistisia tapoja, joita kansani ovat kohdellneet sinun aiemmin. Lupaan teille, että suurin osa välimerellisistä kunnioittaa Pohjois-Euroopan kulttuureja, eivätkä yritä merkitä teitä troijalaisiksi tai roomalaisiksi. Olisi kuitenkin hienoa, jos Luoteis-Euroopan kansat säilyttäisivät heimoidentiteettinsä.
@@SxVaNm345 Mediterranean is a broad term and you may be talking about the populations in Northwest Spain or Lombardy but I'm sure the people of the Syrian coasts do not share your opinion. Maybe you could read about how the Americans treated Mediterranean immigrants in the past
*“Some people reckoned up all King Harald’s (King of Norway) great achievements, and said that nothing would be too difficult for him. But there were others who said that England would be very hard to conquer. It was very populous and the warriors who were known as the king’s Huscarles were so valiant, that any one of them was worth two of the best in King Harald’s army”.*
- Snorri Sturluson (1178-1241) - Medieval Icelandic Writer
The Normans wrote with begrudging respect about the Anglo-Saxon Huscarls. One Norman knight wrote that he had fought in Palestine, France, the Italian states, and all over Christendom; of all the warriors he fought, he said none were as ferocious or fanatical as the English Huscarls he fought at Hastings.
Anglo-power!! ;)
Greetings from New England! 🇺🇸
For years I have been looking for a proud English American, and here you are.
KampfGruppeLehr88 yes sir I am! 336 years since my ancestor settled in Dedham MA from southern Hampshire! We've been on new England ever since.
Mackenzie Whethers By blood 💪
@@mackenziewhethers1257 remove the mackenzie name, that's not english enough. Add more of a germanic first name! then you're good to go!
Damn yankees the ones brought in the Irish and German hordes to fight their English and Scottish cousins in the South.
No hard feelings now though lol
Great topic, very timely as certain media and education entities have taken it upon themselves to re write our history and heritage. It's so important that we keep objective fact based history alive.
Nice one Tom💪
I notice that many British people today seem to show some problems with the idea of being Anglo-Saxon. From a french point of view, this word has always been used to describe anything English/British. It is been applied in french language to talk about the English derived countries, that is to say Britain, USA, English-speaking Canada, Australia... the question if the population is or not descending from Anglo Saxon is irrelevant to us. With internet discussions about these subjects I noticed that a lot of British people deeply reject being called Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, or even northern European; while Britain is obviously all those things. Anglo-saxon because it is the root of the English language, Germanic because English is a Germanic language and northern Europe because it is obviously where the UK is located since ever. Seems like if many British people wanted to dissociate themselves with the other countries of the north sea area such as Netherlands, Denmark, or northern Germany.
Fabrice Le Borgne it’s because of WWII
The British people are decended from the Bell Beaker people they replaced about 90% of the Neolithic farmer the one that built Stonehenge They came from the lower Germany. about 4500BC by 600BC they became Brythonic speakers and some time during the Anglo Saxon Invasion if there ever was one changed the Language to a Germanic one . I still have no explanation how a Germanic Language came to this Island, its still A Mystery Brythonic was still being spoke in Briton when the Anglo Saxons came in Cumbria,Cornwall and Wales but by 1300 it became extinct in England they only place u can here is now in Wales and Cornwall.
Native Brythonic speaker the Language of Briton before the Germanicss came.
It's not a problem if it was true but 85% of us are Anglo- Celtic the Welsh and Scott's keep harping on that we are not true British god they be shocked when they find out the truth.
Rod OB i am french and I can tell you that British tourists stand out immediatly here, like germans do.
We've got Viking , Saxon , Celtic all mixed in . Cheers from Canada and Australia.
According to recent reaserch conducted by oxford an average briton had 40%germanic,60%briton and 0%viking or norse classical writers describe viking as savage,blood thirsty,and rapist but real thing is they are more gentle they left a little trace of dna
Aren't you Jewish?
Of course most Europeans have at least some Jewish genetics.
The most brilliant comment ever, so simple yet so factual
Lagolop Actually it’s the opposite, most Jews have European genetics while the great majority of Europeans don’t have any Jewish genetics.
One only needs to travel across the country to be convinced that the main stock of the English comes from Schleswig. You know the Dutch Frisians, in particular those colossal Frisian women with their delicate white and fresh red complexions (which also predominate in Schleswig). They are the ancestral types of the northern English, and in particular those colossal women, who are also found here in England, all are of decidedly Frisian type.
Frederich Engels in a letter to Karl Marx (seriously, lol)
How does this channel not have 100000 subscribers??? Great content brother.
I'm proud of my Saxon ancestry!
Hello from Germany brother I am a native Saxon from Westphalia... Have a great Christmas time..
@@albionmyl7735 Thank you! MERRY CHRISTMAS!
FORMER COUNTRY!!!! ACT OF UNION 1707 DISSOLVED ENGLAND'S SOVEREIGNTY!!! GET A GRIP.
I am from Kazakhstan. Currently learning about the ethnic groups of Europe. Particularly English and German. I love J.R.R. Tolkien movies, helps me learn more about his England
I'M BRITISH NOT ENGLISH!! THE BRETONS ARE THE TRUE INDIGENOUS!!!!!
I love these videos by this dude. It totally explains my Celt, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic dna. As an American it’s hard to know exactly where my ancestors came from, even after a dna test. This puts it into perspective so well.
It’s okay to be Europeans ! Hail our Gods!
Aye, I love it!
Jesus isn't the lord?
@@rspvarun no
@@sassythesasquatch1571 Saxon’s were mostly Christian while they were Pegan originally they quickly lost their Pegan beliefs the moment that Christianity began to have prominence in fact the Saxons were one of the first people to become Christian
@@hunternichols9463 indeed and britian kept christianity and spread it everywhere they wept,hail christ,rule britannia
I really wish more of the general pre-history/early history of Europe would be covered in schools. Videos like this do a great job making up for that!
It is really nice to see someone interested in the topics this channel covers who, isn't obsessed with discredited (modern) anthropological theories, BTW!
In old Atlantic Canada (where British Loyalists settled) there is a resurgence in pride and interest in our Anglo-Saxon heritage. It's quite funny the common thought since I was young is many of us were bred heavily with French colonists and Irish after the famine. I took an ancestry DNA test which claimed I was upwards of 85% English with 15% Irish DNA. It's incredible how people even away from their homeland culture prefer to breed with their own.
After looking more into my family history and my DNA results, I feel compelled visit Britain and feel great pride when I read the old Saxon poems.
Jonah Mansel Da
Same here in my family (at least until my dad married my mom who's a little more than half Czech), my dad took a DNA test saying that he was 80% English and 12% Irish with the rest being traces of Scandinavian and Western European.
Anecdotal evidence but I remember reading a book about WWI and the Canadian regiments that were raised. It said a lot of the volunteers were Canadians of British or Irish birth (many of whom had served in the British Army). Obviously it would depend on the region but it said something like 20% Scottish, 20% Irish, 40% English, the rest Canadian born or other. It happens in all English speaking countries. People seem to have an aversion to claiming English ancestory. They will be Scottish, Irish, French, Welsh, etc. anything but English. Despite England having by far the biggest population and by far the most emigrants through history. We so the same in South Africa when we lived there. The (British) white South Africans would always say they were Scottish or Irish rather than English, despite having a quite clear English surname! I am sure the Aussies are the same. And we know the US Americans just love all their Irish ancestry!
Atlantic Canada really is great. One of the few places in this poisoned country where it's acceptable to be proud to be a loyalist.
Andrew Fairweather explain what you mean? What great increase in interest in Anglo-Saxon culture is there in the Atlantic provinces? I mean I hope you are right but I highly doubt t.
I’ve found your channel over the last month or two and I really appreciate your content.
We are the English. An ancient celto-germanic people who have existed for 1500 years. We are part Brittonic, part Anglo-Saxon, and we have been left untouched for the past 1000 years. The Normans left almost zero genetic imprint. And the Vikings not much more. (The Normans and Vikings were Germanic in origin anyway).
Yet some like to dismiss our culture and call us a mongrel race. How laughable.
English and extremely proud.
Hello to England from a native Saxon from Westphalia Germany....
*Germano-Celtic
Much to the dismay of many Americans, English as an ethnicity are mainly German.
@@Hrvatski_vojnik Good luck getting anglos to care about that. More care about soccer and beer than their own women.
Simple fact is: our forefathers came from Northern Germany. For a while, the first Germans were mercenaries, who bred with the local British women, until later German women began to cross the channel. Like I am the offspring of pure blooded English father, and Welsh mother.
I am proud to be English and Briton
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In Australia, we usually refer to ourselves as Anglo-Celtic.
Sounds like an oil company
Maddy G, do you think that's accurate?
@@PhilipCunningham1788 Yes, indeed I do, it's (very) accurate because most Aussies are a mix of English, Irish, Scottish (and to a lesser extent Welsh, Cornish or Cumbrian) genes. Even some of our ancestors from one country had surnames from another country, eg ancestors from Ireland but with English surnames. Our society is similarly mixed in terms of its cultural heritage, eg religion. Edit: And another thing that just occurred to me is we have a mix of English and Irish rail guages!
Yeah, pretty much just refers to the fact that pretty much all of the colonists of Australia were either Irish, Scottish, English or Welsh.
Irish, Scottish and Welsh being the 'Celtic' and English being 'Anglo'.
That makes sense
Proud to be an Anglo-Saxon, pioneering the West so you don't have to ;) thanks again Tom
Have you found something interesting?
Proud American but also proud of my European ancestry of which a big chunk of that is English
@@aadamkhan5217 if you consider yourself to be English then happy for you!
@@aadamkhan5217 Your not English you can thank the globalist pigs for bringing you to England we're you don't belong.😂
I can see the Independent and gaaaaaardian headlines now......Far right channel promotes English history!
Thank God there are people out there like you Thomas! ... And thank God for the internet - we'd be sheeple without it. ... Can you imagine what what it would be like if they turned off the net, and we only had the mainstream British media, a Nightmare world! ... Keep doing what you're doing.
What irritates me the most, is the fact people think the history of England began in 1066AD 🤦♂️
Followed by the ignorance and/or denial of our Anglo-Saxon heritage
Another great video. Going through your content is like wading through the river that is youtube, finding a trail of gold.
Celtic and Germanic mix gave us this beautiful race. A nice mix. Of course I’m biased as a midwestern American who before coming here 225 years ago my ancestors were a nice mix of Welsh and English
I'm Austrian AngloSaxon. There's actually a small farming town in Austria with my family name.
Many generations of my family have lived and are native to East Anglia.
I am proud to be English,and with this I am proud to be a descendent of the Anglo-Saxon peoples.
I am an American English Anglo-Saxon and damn proud !
As an Australian with Anglo-Saxon/English heritage, I feel in a weird spot because living in a very ethnically diverse country, many people identify with their ancestry very strongly which is wonderful and has made us a very accepting culture. Therefore many people here are proud of the country their ancestry is from. But for someone like me who is very proud of their English heritage, it seems like we are quick to pass off Australia's influence from England even though it's still the predominant ancestry and most of Australia's culture and identity can be traced back to English culture. A lot of that comes from our country's colonial past and white guilt, plus the whitewashing and near-annihilation of the country's Indigenous population. You get a sense here that people would sooner say White or Caucasian when referring to white Australians rather than specifically English. Terms like Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Celtic or simply Anglo are sometimes used however. By a similar token, certain 'white' Aussies will express pride in having Irish or Scottish heritage, in part due to these culture's history of rebellion and struggle. It might just be me, but I get a feeling all this stuff is taboo in Australia and people don't really want to talk about it, even though it's clearly part of our country's identity.
Australia is a very warm, welcoming & multicultural country, however the majority demographic of Australia has been Anglo-Celtic since early colonial times, and remains so today. I wouldn’t say it’s a taboo topic to talk about, but most people probably don’t see a reason to, or think/care much about that aspect. Also, it’s pretty obvious Australia is a heavily British/Northern European county, like Canada, New Zealand and Sweden.
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Most Australians look Irish - and they're noted for being good-looking.
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The English are a mixture of AS and Britons - and the Britons were colonised by Spanish types in the Bronze Age.
(See: mass migrations into Britain in the Bronze Age).
But British scientists classified the Spanish and Southern Europeans as Black - so the English are Black.
You have just tied up so many questions I have been asking for so long! Thank you for your work!
Wow thanks for this! I’m doing research on my family tree and for you to make this video is just phenomenal. Thanks a bunch!
Thanks for this excellent video! My father was German (Rheinland-Pfalz, descended from the Franks), my mother was English from Yorkshire (thus, of Danish & Anglo-Saxon origin). I consider myself to be 100 percent Germanic. Your conclusion, that we of North-Western Europe are actually one people genetically, is especially appreciated by me. I have tested at 23andMe, AncestryDna, and FTDNA: all have determined that i am 100 percent European, about 1/3 British Isles, 1/3 Scandinavia, and 1/3 West-Central Europa (Germany, France).
I am half Greek, half Hungarian & U.K. (less than 1/4 English). I have been learning their lores and ways of speech (with German) for some time now, and aside from the sear wonder of the Anglo-Saxons, the tongue of Old-English & Archaic-Modern-English hath been the most fond to speak. Behoovingly so, the English were always of the most well-spoken.
Proud to be an Anglo-Saxon.
@jonnyneace8928 Us Anglos disagree. We never went away because a Viking who spoke French conquered us.
MYTH
@@emetahava I do actually exist.
We have Anglo-Saxon, Briton/Gaulish/Irish, and Norse blood 🏴 I love my Germanic heritage. Jealous fools won't deny me my right to exist as an Englishman. My wife is Italian/Chilean, she identifies as Roman!
And to be considered Maori in New Zealand depends on your "state of mind" or " Whakapapa" meaning all you need is 'one' Maori ancestor. So even just 1percent maori blood makes you indigenous/native. Cancelling out any other predominant mixture. Must be to make up for demographic decline or their sense of "Genetic Superiority". Bloody ridiculous if you ask me.
What's so terrible about the decolonization of Indigenous culture?
Does that make you Maori by race, however?
Maori are an ethnic group.
Furthermore, there are tons of Maori that still have a great amount of genetically Non-foreign ancestry.
Plus, one ancestor or not, that's not the point.
If none of your parents can be considered Maori, then nor are you Maori.
Though blood quantum laws may be a thing there, traditionally it has more to do with lineage.
English; The trinity of Warriors,- Anglo-Saxons/Celts/Vikings. The best stock!.
You are probably 5'6" and look like neanderthal..usually people who have profiles pic like you have, are nothing like that. Grow up!
@@SerafEnd You're obviously intimidated, insecure and jealous!.
Too bad cultural pride is racist.
@@TheWarriorArts I rest my case, child.
@@SerafEnd Be gone jealous hypocrite!.
I have Several Anglo Saxon ancestors the Harrison's and the Johnsons , both from border clans in Scotland , Northern England , both immigrated to Australia and married Irish and Scottish women move to the alps mined for gold and raised cattle ! The border Saxons had some of the biggest family feuds in Scots history IE the Maxwell v Johnson feud which went for generations ! Anglo Saxon history is amazing ! Thanks for the video
It baffles me that even some English people don't accept the fact English is an ethnicity
I appreciate what you are doing. From an Englishman: Subscribed.
What irritates me is these fools that claim that you can be English merely by being born in England. I once knew this black woman who used to make comments like, "I'm cold, it must be because I'm English" and I just used to think it was ridiculous.
What a stupid thing to say
@@egotisticalgodofdestructio7555 From Wikipedia: "The English people are an ethnic group native to England. English people primarily speak the English language of the Germanic language family and share a common history and culture. The English identity is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Angelcynn ('family of the Angles'). Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Great Britain around the 5th century AD."
@@egotisticalgodofdestructio7555 Five generations of English people were born and grew up in India under the British Raj. Nobody ever considered them Indian, especially not the Indian people and when India gained her Independence the English who had been born there came to England and were considered as English as anyone else. English is an ethicity. Can a white person be an Australian aboriginal or a native American because they were born on that land?
@@silverbullet2008bb I’m an ethnic Englishman lol I was talking about the black woman
@@egotisticalgodofdestructio7555 My mistake my friend! Sorry! lol!
Proud to be an English Canadian!!!!
based
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 Based?
@@histman3133 that is a video gamer's way of saying "Awesome" or "cool"
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 Ohhh okay. Good to know. Sorry I didn't know that one.
@@histman3133 it's fine.
We are an Anglo-Saxon family living in the Midlands UK (German wife, English husband). Only in UK I have heard Anglo-Saxon is to be banned because it is outdated or racist. Saxons exist in Deutschland and English is from Anglia. England and Deutschland have so much in common so denying we are Anglo-Saxon is a racist jealousy
Here in America just the average American has ancestors from Lower Saxony, Westphalia and Schweswig-Holsten Germany. Where the Angles and Saxons came from. And Denmark where the Angles and Jutes came from. And England, and Friesland Netherlands though broadly Netherlands.
So even in America many are justified to call themselves as Anglo-Saxon. I myself am not in that privilege category however. I am Anglo-Norman not Anglo-Saxon.
@@noahtylerpritchett2682 the normans integrated into English culture. Proof is nobody today in England says they are norman.
@@Anglo-Saxon_familie No one? Partially true, no one says Norman unless they say Anglo-Norman, than that's 2% less. But not 0. AKA a number of the very minimal few. like myself.
Anglo-Norman =/= Norman there's a difference.
ACT OF UNION 1707 DISSOLVED ENGLAND'S SOVEREIGNTY!!! GET A GRIP.
Great video mate!
You are like a smart version of Varg Vikernes.
Varg,
You might be right, although l at least wouldn't destroy historical monuments with edgelord motives.
I've never met one. Tell me when you do.
Pagans though; don't go there.
>Crappy Christian Churches
>Historical monuments
pfft
Its also great clicking on videos and seeing a wild Varg going ham making memes in the comment section.
"Going ham" means something like "applying dominant force"
Varg is a loser who lashes out regularly against any and every ally. Oh, and he's also a leading Germanic Pagan figure on TH-cam. Good job *throws pen onto desk*
ThuleanPerspective That I did not know. I still assume you support(ed) it. Am I wrong?
Not having burned the beautiful stave church doesn't, however, make the the other burnings less moronic...
Cool! :D I've been curious about the continental Anglo-Saxons since I'm half-Frisian half-English, or basically, entirely Anglo-Saxon, which is what I prefer. I was curious to find Frisians had settled in Scotland and that had me look harder at the Lowlanders versus the Highlanders culturally and genetically.
So it's curious again to find that even between Anglo-Saxons and Celts that we're splitting hairs almost, at least genetically. Brythonic languages are still alien to me, although "Scots" I find isn't too different from English, really.
The Scots language is a variant of the English language, not in that it was brought in from what is now England (it wasn’t), but in that it is the descendant of the language spoken by the Angles who settled in what is now South-East Scotland. It was given the name Scots in recent centuries to distinguish it from the variants spoken south of the border in what is now England. This is why you find it similar to “standard” English.
The language of the Scoti tribe, who gave their name to Scotland, was actually a form of the Gaelic Celtic languages spoken in Ireland. Scottish Gaelic still exists, and is spoken by a (relatively small) number of people. The language of the Picts, which was spoken across much of Scotland well into the Middle Ages, was probably a Brythonic Celtic language, related to the pre-Anglo-Saxon language spoken across all of Britain, but Pictish no longer exists.
They don't exist since our enthogenisis was in england
Same in France. Media refuse the fact that Celt are the ancesters of most of the french
Right on Thomas. Right on. Take care buddy. Gare
I received a DNA test for Christmas and had gotten my results back a few weeks ago.
48% English / 45% Irish/Scottish/Welsh / 7% Scandinavian.
I'd grown up thinking I had Italian DNA on my father's side, but because I've never known him I've never been certain. I'm pretty happy with my results though. I'm a proper British lad of the isles! I was quite surprised to see how non-diverse the results were, considering all this talk of us having so much from elsewhere.
@FV Tisiphone Well I took the MyHeritage test kit as it was brought for me as a gift. I know it's amongst the more well-know DNA test kits out there. It has lots of individual ethnic-zoning, for want of a better phrase, so as to get specifics. It also has, and I'm sure most do, a family tree and matches to other users on the database that share DNA with you. I'd happily recommend it.
@FV Tisiphone You're welcome o/
@Noah Does Christian Apologetics. Nice. Which specific regions, if you don't mind my asking?
@Matt I'm 100% sure that there are people much more in the know - regarding genealogy and the like, that'll know of a way of discerning the differences. I know that there are other sites you're able to upload your results to that might give you more accuracy/detail. I see people commenting on uploading to 'GEDmatch', although, I don't know much about that nor have I done so.
I used MyHeritage, which fortunitely splits the groups within the British Isles into English and Irish/Scottish/Welsh (Celtic). So you could always upload through that site.
Honestly, it seems really hard to get a definitive answer in regards to DNA. I guess it's still early days as of yet. You never know MyAncestry may yet distinguish your results in a future update.
All the best, my British bro o/
As a novice I find your manner and presentation really easy to follow, especially the non esoteric way in which you deliver the facts. Excellent video mate.
That impression was gold.
Northern European, that's our dna , celtic, germanic , bottom line is we are all northern European .
Well spoken! Greetings from the Rhine! :-)
ye greeting from a descendant the Bell Beaker People
@Cicero Celts are a bit cringe, no?
I'm quite aware of our mostly "mixed" heritage (I'm half Irish half Germanic or Norman with Anglo-Saxon in there too) and I would usually say I'm British or a Briton but I'm quite happy to come under the Anglo-Saxon banner, this is simply the name that closely related peoples in these isles have come to adopt.. A good point on Turkey there - actual Turks were a Mongoloid people, I've only seen a couple with that look - as you say Turks today are mostly of an Arab (or perhaps rather Middle Eastern) and Greek type and then you even have a historic Celtic presence as well (hence "Galatians" in the Bible), as well as that Indo-European Hittite base.
I think we know why the Anglo-Saxon identity is targeted for undermining. My DNA analysis revealed just over half Germanic and the rest Scandinavian and Celtic. I guess the markers that distinguish these various groups are fairly few in number as you say.
Did you have any French?
Because it was a rallying cry for the American Southland in the 1960s and the woke crowd is obsessed with that last great victory of theirs?
Proud Anglo-Saxon and Celtic American Heathen who will move to Norway in a few years 🇳🇴
Hey survive, can you do a video on the genetics of southern slavs and how "slavic" we really are? Thanks
45% in the case of Bulgarians.
rightwingreactionary We Macedonians and Bulgarians are the same people but Bulgarians have 5% bulgar admixture. We are basically the meeting point between Greeks, Slavs and Germano celts. We have the least genetic diversity in Europe but all of the haplogroups are distributed in large numbers. We are basically half slavs, half Thracians/Illyrians/hellenes (depending on geography but all these tribes shared the same DNA), with some germano Celtic and roman thrown in
I agree with you, but did you have to delete my previous comment?
I didn't delete your comment man it's still there for me
South Slavs are not closely related to Nordics actually, even though I2 came from northern Europe (I2a started in the balkans) it's almost not present there anymore. We are closest related to other mediterraneans (italians and iberians) and east slavics.
I speak up loud and proud about being British.
Brilliant video! Thank you for sharing your views on this important topic. Us Anglo-Saxons need more of a voice and a stage on which one can celebrate and rejoice in our ancestors endeavours not shamed for past events that the liberals place their subjective values that then try and guilt trip us. The identity of Northern Europeans and Europeans alike is something to be cherished and honoured, it is truly fascinating and awe-inspiring that our ancestors were strong warriors that would face adversity and had a spirit that is past down from them to us! I'm proud of my heritage, traditions and culture. We are who we are!
I thought we were Native Britons not Anglo Saxons.
Another great video, the Jive is alive!
1:19 Craftsmanship of the dwarves
Great channel and work Survive the Jive!
One thing that pisses me off is that people like to forget that Lowland Scots also have a high share of Anglo/Nordic DNA yet Scotland as a whole is usually associated with the Celts (I blame part of this on the fact that we are all named after Irish people who came to Western Scotland). Several maps show that the Anglos settled all over Eastern Lowland Scotland. That isn't even factoring in the Scandinavians that also settled in areas in the Highlands, the Shetland and Orkney islands, the Scottish Hebrides and even in Western Lowland Scotland in places like Largs. You can see this reflected in the way Scottish people look and the way they talk. I would argue that the Scots language/dialect is closer to Old English than modern day English is. Scottish people also make an 'oo' sound when saying words like 'house' or 'out' which is the way all English speakers pronounced things before the great vowel shift. Despite the SNP trying to normalise Gaelic and make it seem like everyone's ancestors in Scotland spoke it, it has only been spoken in the Scottish Hebrides and some of the Western Highlands. My surname itself is 'Waddell' which has its roots Old English/Old Norse and comes from Eastern Lowland Scotland which was heavily settled by Anglos/Danes.
Geordies:)
I think the reason why people see Scotland as Gaelic is because, as you pointed out, the names, but also because the 'official tradition' or origin myth people told themselves for so long was that Scotland, and by extension the Scots themselves, were Gaelic, due to the Kingdom of Scotland/Alba being originally established as a Gaelic realm(or at least largely Gaelic-speaking/culturally Gaelic). I'd argue that Scotland is probably more ethnically diverse than England(Picts, Gaels, Angles, Britons, Norse)
It doesn't have a high share of Anglo Saxon DNA, the population of the Lothians and the Borders were the same Celtic people that inhabited the rest of the country and spoke a Celtic language similar to Old Welsh and probably Pictish. Many of the places still have Anglicised Brithonic names. It was the period when that area came under the domination of the Northumbrians, a critical few centuries during a time of significant religious, economic and cultural change that saw the partial adoption of Anglo-Saxon culture esp the language. Eventually the lowlands were reclaimed by the people now calling themselves Scots. The economic and cultural power of what was now England however helped ensure that the English language was now there to stay.
I suspect the genetic impact is limited in the area and makes up less than 20%. If you want to think of yourself as Anglo Saxon then fair enough but it's just as valid to claim a Celtic heritage in Scotland even if you're from the lowlands.
English is a tribal designation. An immigrant from, say, Pakistan can become British, but he can never become English. In the same sense, I can move to Zululand, but I can never become a Zulu.
Cause they’re not English, same as an Englishman will never be Pakistani. But, but everyone seems to think they can be British while no one blinks an eye lid.
*"The people now living in Denmark and Germany aren't exactly the same as they were back then, genetically... or the descendents of the Anglo-Saxon people who moved from the continent to Britain were already genetically distinct, slightly, from their neighbours"* - I strongly suspect this, and I'm so glad you made these points. They're ones I always have to make in debates on this issue as everyone seems to neglect them.
Steed EOW
Yep, it's actually fairly obvious when you think about all the movement that's happened on the mainland since the migration period.
Steed EOW irish (celtic) and northern danish ancestory here. Bless Evropa!
Steed EOW Speaking as somewhat of an expert on the subject, a German living in Germany, that is true. If you want to see real Germans, as in Nordics and Falics, you must go to Northern Germany to see them as a majority, or, depending on the region, as a total majority. Otherwise, they're spread out, diluted or concentrated in single valleys, cities, towns. Germany has absorbed large amount of Alpine, Dinaric and East Baltic blood since the Frankish conquest and the "Drang nach Osten", or German Manifest Destiny. Most of the time, these non-Germanic elements are those welcoming the migrants in, and those responsible for the perception of Germans as a people without individual courage (a rightful criticism of our Anglo cusins). The propaganda slur "Hun" during WW1 can largely be explained by the presence of the dark and round headed Alpine type in Germany, which is all but absent in England.
@@HerewardtheWake23 That's complete bullshit. It's rather that the German and Danish dna was heavily diluted in the british isles. Go to northern Germany, Netherlands, Denmark and you will find tall lanky robust people. Many of which have light bronze skin, blue eyes and blonde hair. Germanic type. Now lets have a look at the population in England. While these types certainly exist, they are a tiny minority. Most so called english have a look much closer to people that can be found in spain, france and south western germany. Pale skin, dark hair and over all a very non germanic bone structure and facial features.
@@derneue1875 Du glaubst doch nun wirklich nicht, dass die meisten Briten Germanischen Ursprungs sind. Das die wirklich Germanischen Elemente im Deutschen Volk im Nordwesten bis zum Harz und entlang des Rheines zu finden sind sehe ich genau so. War allerdings schon immer so, diese Gebiete sind nunmal die Wiege der Kontinental Germanen. Die Aussage des Original Kommentars is trotzdem vollkommener Quatsch. Vor allem deswegen, weil sie impliziert, das die Genetischen Unterschiede zwischen Engländern und Deutschen, Dänen usw nicht auf geringes Germanisches Erbe in England zurückzuführen sind sondern, ganz im Gegenteil, geringes Germanisches Erbe in Norddeutschland und Dänemark. Da kann man doch nur müde lächeln. Sieht doch jedes Kind das die engländer größtenteils Kelten sind.
Just found this, i'll subscribe, see what you're up to these days. cheers!
What is interesting to me is the fact that there are now more people with significant Irish descent living in England than there are people in Ireland. At one point, I believe there would have been distinguishable differences between Gaels (From Ireland, northwestern Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man), Picts and British (with the Anglo-Saxon influence later). I'm hoping to make a video elaborating on this, specifically the phenotype of the Gaels.
GedMatch says I am slightly closer to modern Dutch and Northern German folk than other English folk. This alone proves we are basically the same since all my KNOWN ancestors are English.
i am very close to South East English and North/South Dutch according to eurogenes K13.
scoring close to the dutch is indicative of high celtic ancestry due to the low north atlantic component and high med component it has.
whats your baltic score on k13?
I did the Ancestry DNA test and got 85% British + 15% Irish (I'm from North-West England). So I'm very much a girl of the British Isles. The "British" category is a bit ambiguous but I'd imagine it's the mix of Anglo Saxon and Celt that you describe here. I'd love if they could refine down further though! Physically I have very fair skin, dark brown hair and blue eyes. I've always been told that's a "Celtic look" but I don't know. The physical traits of the people of the British Isles might be an interesting video topic though!
It IS a Celtic look. Like Queen Elizabeth.
@@johnpatrick5307 i have very germanic facial features (rectangularish head, dolichocephalic, blue eyes etc) but i have medium brown hair
Correction: its not a Celtic look, its an Irish look (a third of Welsh DNA is Irish, for instance).
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Whats your background?
@@johnpatrick5307 My latest Ancestry update has me at only 2% Irish yet I look the way I do. So it's absolutely not an exclusively Irish look.
All this bickering between the European peoples about our identity needs to be curtailed, and you're doing an excellent job stopping that bickering. I am 60% English, 15% Spanish, 15% Scandinavian and ~10% "Central European" (German). I love all my European blood, and hold none over the other.
I am an English man and I have been saying this stuff on my channel for years but not in video because I never had the bloody time. Great video.
Cheers mate. My father is English. My mum is dane/german, I just call myself Anglo-Saxon
Yes you are Anglosaxon I am native Saxon from Westphalia northwest Germany so we are from the same tribe...
@@aadamkhan5217 what the fuck, he's talking about his genetics not his ethnicity
@@aadamkhan5217 cry Mohammed
As an American, I am going to rip off one of our finest authors, Mark Twain’s quote.
“I am not an Anglo-Saxon. I am the Anglo-Saxon”
I love these videos because they really help in my quest to understand my ancestors, I am about 70% northwest European, and 40% of that is from the British isles, so I do quite enjoy these lessons in the genetic, cultural, and linguistic history of Europe.
The sociology of identity is fascinating. The difference in messaging on identity for different groups is about fear of what can happen when a dominant group is identity focused, versus what is means for an oppressed group to be proud of its identity. The fear is that if the people with their hands on the levers of power are overtly “proud” of their own group, this very often involves looking down on other groups, which can easily lead to persecution. Whereas, the idea is, oppressed groups are told by the dominant societal norms that they are lesser. Therefore, it is important for them to be able to express pride in who they are, in order to undo that negative messaging and stand up to the uneven power dynamic that works against them. This is the theory, and this is why it leads to different messages to different groups about whether expressing pride in the group identity is acceptable or not.
I express neither approval nor disapproval for this conceptual framework in this post.
Love this, great work sir. 👏🏻
I am Scottish.
I don't trust my self to reply to this question lol.
Informative video sir.
The truth is I the Welsh and you Scotland are true Brittania. England descended from Germany, and Ireland came from North Spain
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Not true - the Britons were Celts from the continent, probably Belgian.
The Irish were Celts from Gaul - they look like the northern French, Austrians, southern Germans of today. Gaelic is close to Gaulish.
A people without a link to their past are a people who have no future.