Britons and Anglo Saxon Kingdoms
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
United States
May 10, 2016 5:19pm CST
Just skimmed (yes skimmed) through an article a few moments ago. A group of researchers at Oxford University found that there has been very little movement over the centuries.
Essentially, it states that the "Britons" (see that term seems foreign to me.. I'd just sya "The British" or actually "The English" but I digress) have stayed within the same communities / "tribes" as their ancestors of the 7th century.
I'll let you read the article for more detail on it...
The scientific aspect of history isn't really my cuppa...
ALL SECTIONS A new genetic map of Britain shows that there has been little movement between areas of Britain which were former tribal kingoms in Anglo-Saxon England Credit: David Cheskin/PA 18 March 2015 • 4:12pm Britons are still living in the same 'tribe
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@celticeagle (168327)
• Boise, Idaho
11 May 16
Glad to hear they are still in their own neighborhoods. I call them "the Brits" myself.
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@celticeagle (168327)
• Boise, Idaho
12 May 16
@ScribbledAdNauseum ....I don't usually call them. LOL
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
11 May 16
I don't think we've ever referred to them as "The Britons", maybe in school but the word just sounds so foreign to my ears.
I like stuff like this but it's still a bit too scientific.
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@toniganzon (72533)
• Philippines
10 May 16
Britons are how we call the British here in our country.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
11 May 16
I think it's the politically correct term, but the "British" or "English" was how we were taught.
@toniganzon (72533)
• Philippines
11 May 16
@ScribbledAdNauseum It's how we were taught at school too. But during the Spanish regime in our country, the elites used the term Britons.
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@ElicBxn (63643)
• United States
20 Jul 16
The island is the British Island - the people, well, just as I live in Austin, I'm an Austinite. Someone in San Francisco is San Franciscan. The technical term is Briton. I remember watching an episode of some show where they did DNA on a centuries old skeleton found in a British town and discovered that almost half the town's long term residents were related to the person.
Really, if you want to get right down to it, while migration has always happened, and more so in the last few centuries in the Americas, the massive move from one place to another has really mostly happened in the last 100 years - since the end of WWI. Even more since the end of WWII. Even after WWI, lots of folks returned to their communities and stayed.
