I purposely preferred to use the term English in this context, although I understand it offends you, if you are a very patriotic Brit. My apologies, Sir!
My personal friendships are more often found in Scotland and Wales and I didn't want THEM to be referred to as originators of what I previously coined rather aggressive colonialism.
Here is what Wikipedia says:
The ancestry of the English, considered as an ethnic group, is mixed; it can be traced to the mostly Celtic Romano-Britons, [87] to the eponymous Anglo-Saxons, [88] the Danish- Vikings[89] that formed the Danelaw during the time of Alfred the Great and the Normans, [90][91] among others. The 19th and 20th centuries, furthermore, brought much new immigration to England.
Ethnicity aside, the simplest view is that an English person is someone who was born or lives in England holds British nationality and regards themselves as English, regardless of his or her racial origin. It has, however, been a notoriously complicated, emotive and controversial identity to delimit. Centuries of English dominance within the United Kingdom has created a situation where to be English is, as a linguist would put it, an "unmarked" state. The English frequently include themselves and their neighbours in the wider term of "British" or even use English when they should use British. In contrast Scots and Welsh tend to be more forward about referring to themselves by one of those more specific terms. [92]
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