Who are the indigenous people in the UK?
Given that people have migrated to and from the UK for thousands of years, who exactly does the word "Indigenous" refer to in relation to people in the UK?
For example, my parents were born in London, my mothers parents were Irish and my father can trace his family back to the Huguenots, so am I "indigenous" to the UK?
Do immigrants become indigenous if they stay here long enough?
Answer:
Technically it's the Welsh and the Cornish who moved West when Julius Caesar and the boys decided to visit. Not to mention the Picts and Scots who one of JC's successors Hadrian built a wall to keep out. After that it was party time with Angles, Saxons, French and whoever coming to say hello.
there was an indigenous race in England, Scotland Wales and Ireland, but there is no such thing as indigenous people in the UK as the UK is a relavtively new country in terms of how old the peoples of each of its four nations have inhabited it..
the cockney birds from down in liverpool !
I have to say anyone with druids blood in them or celtic blood but that could be wishful thinking on my behalf. Nice question and I hope many question it even if they dont answer it.
I think you could say the indiginous people are the Angles, who were added to by the Saxons, hence Anglo Saxon. The Celts, are also pretty local, identified by the squat dark swarthy types. The Saxons tend to be taller broader and blonder. But really it's hard to say. But if you look at the features of the Netherlands, Denmark, Northern France and Belgium, you see we all share features, back from the days when we shared the conitnent with them. But what makes us British goes far deeper.
From where Istand, the indigenous people of this country are the several generations of people which the education system has absolutely failed. Is it not time that there were less meetings and more teaching. I believe that there is political bias in the teaching unions, there is bitterness, and armchair marxism, from frustrated would be scholars and polititions. This government has no intention of lifting a finger to change anything, lets face it, they need an uneducated mass to manipulate, does that remind anybody of anyplace else?
Unless I'm mistaken, historically there are no true indigenous peoples.
As has already been answered, the indigenous people of England turn out to be the Welsh and Cornish people who once populated most of the southern part of England but retreated to the west due to the invasion of armies..........if you visit Cornwall many of the names of villages there have a similarity to Welsh names thus showing that the same peoples moved westward ...........
I would think Indigenous would be the first tribes of people to inhabit anywhere. At some point there were no humans in the British Isles. Who were the first to populate them? Celts, Angles, Cornish? Don't know that answer as I'm not from there.
In North, Central and South America "native americans" or "indians" first populated the continent by walking over from Russia into Alaska and migrated down. Their descendants are indigenous. Same thing with the Polynesians who came over and populated those islands via boats from elsewhere, etc.
From what I've have read about the British Isles,the early people were Celt's. There were invasions from the Scandinavian countries,and from the continent of Germanic and Norman tribes. All has been relatively sorted out,and now Mr. Blair's pipe dream of a multicultural Britain by allowing people who are clearly not suited to a liberal world and refuse to integrate has destroyed it,a once great nation all gone. Thanks Tony,feel free to leave anytime!
Mostly Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man.
http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigin...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cro-magnon...
I believe that most (including myself) use that term when referring to people who have been born here - regardless of their background - but there is no fixed definition to the term.
Now the Huguenots - they suffered terribly - real suffering....
I should think anyone who lived permanently here before the 70s and that still do.
White Anglo Saxon Protestants
It's generally taken to be those of Anglo-Saxon heritage. I don't really know how or why people decided on this people/era.
Really though it should be those with purly celt heritage but then there'd be no one left in the country except for 3 odd looking men and a goat.
even then the celtic peoples migrated to the britsh isles from central europe.
Good question,
How far back should you go??, i have just read in my Caving magazine that they have made some bone discoveries in a cave which may predate any previous remains by upto 200,000 years
We are all mongrels, whether we like it or not. Think about it.... if we go back in our ancestral line just 5 generations (say for arguments sake 100 years before our birth). We already have 62 people who's genes we carry. The chances of one of them being 'non-indigenous' has to be pretty high.
This question reminded me of that programme '100% English'. It was brilliant to see the faces on some barely closeted racists when they found out they were carrying African or Asian genes.
EDIT: Don't know what Des is talking about Saxons joining indigenous Angles. Angles were part of the same wave of migrants from northern Europe.
I'm Welsh and we have been here for ages and ages and ages. Much longer than the English.
we're all indigenous as far as I'm concerned...it's not possible anymore to distinguish between indigenous and non-indigenous people in a place like Britain, I mean, we had the Saxon invasion, the Norman invasion, the Roman invasion and before that the Celts ...
As far as I am concerned anyone who's second-generation or 3rd generation is indigenous...so I'd say you were definitely true-blue British
and all the Nazis idiots can't do anything about it heh heh !!!
I say let more immigrants in, and kick out the lazy complaining whining low IQ nazi element !
as far as i can tell with some people it's all got to do with being white and from the british isles...
funny tho how people who are against immigration would not necessarily consider you an immigrant if you were from what they consider to be a "civilised" country... (france, spain, germany, netherlands, US...)
it seems to only apply to coloured people or those from eastern europe...
I was always told it was the Welsh and the Cornish When the Romans etc invaded the locals moved quickly to the West in the hope that the mountains/valley's of the local areas would hide them and make them difficult to reach.
the indigenous poele of britain are psychotic, deranged hippopotamuses with large turnips in their nostrils and a giant cucumber coming out of u know where
i would think it would be the celts though technically the UK wouldnt be classed as a country, anglo's and saxons were invaders so i supposed it is down to the welsh and scots
No the Huguenots came from Europe (France) in the 15 centrury due to war's within France. See the weblink: http://www.huguenotsociety.org.uk/histor...
The remainds of the Indigenous Peoples of the UK, are realy from the Celic Nations of Wales Ireland & Scotland. The Cornish Peoples can also be classed as a part of this group.
Mind this histories of the Celtic peoples are being changed, as it was thourght that the Romans pushed the Celts out of their lands, but there has now been found Archealogical evidance showing that some Celtic Tribes adopted the Roman ways of life and so intergrated with the Romans. The same goes at the time of the Saxon invasions too.
No such thing as indigenous UK people! The Scots are descended from the Picts and the rest are from Celtic stock! The English are the biggest mixture of Races as England was invaded more than the rest and so basically its the european mix that is seen as indigenous. As it has been archeologically proved that man first appeared in Africa and then migrated throughout the world I don't see why people even bother with race! We are all the same one! It just depends how far back you want to go!
Contrary to what is often said by Welsh and Cornish nationalists, the Celts are no more indigenous to Britain than Angles or Saxons.
Celts arrived in Britain from the French/German border, largely displacing the Picts. Of course, the Picts aren't indigenous either as it is believed all humans ultimately come from Africa.
Since all populations have moved and migrated over thousands of years indigenous vs. immigrant is really just a matter of perspective and how long it takes to become established, and that of course depends on is deciding.
At the end of the day, people move around.
According to my source: the Welsh race were here first - Welsh from the Frisian for slaves.
There could not possibly be an 'indigenous' people living in the U.K. anymore - we're a mix of Anlges/Saxons/Jutes from Germanic races, Roman settlers, Viking invaders (mainly Dane
The first people to inhabit the Island as a whole, were what we would now refer to as the Scottish and Welsh, though they were not Scottish and Welsh then. These tribes were the original inhabitants of this Island, but moved North and West following the rather numerous early Invasions of the Island. It is also suggested that a number of these early tribes also moved to what is now called Brittany in France, also to avoid the invasions. Even before the more recent immigration rush, the population had become so diluted following these invasions that you will not find many true British people any more, though generally, if you can trace your family back to the North or West, you will probably find you are more "British" than a lot of those that claim to be "British" now. Generally, you would not be looking for those people with blonde hair, blue eyes as being True British, as most true British people would be red/dark haired with a pale complexion. As it has been said, the Scots and Welsh are actually more English, than those that currently think of themselves as being English - Therefore, with that little parody in mind, there are not really any indigenous people in Britain any more, as the Original inhabitants have all but disappeared through thousands of Years of invasions/immigration etc. etc.
Personally, I would say that a person who has been born in this Country is British, wherever their family originates from. Those that move to Britain should be prepared to follow our customs and laws and integrate in to our Society and become British. Any one who doesn't wish to do this, should try elsewhere.....
I believe the Welsh are the only true indigenoius people on the island of Britain. The rest of Britain was invaded throughout the years, and you can tell because English as a language is closely related to Northern European languages, whereas Gallic has many words similar to French and Italian, but the Welsh language is way out there on its own...
It's the British Isles we should be discussing not the UK, and the ancient Britons were the people who migrated west to escape the Roman invasion, therefore it is the Welsh & the Cornish, but indigenous I don't think so. In conclusion, no one really knows if there were any.
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