Yorkie
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- English with some recent Norwegian and more distant Huguenot, and dashes from the 'Celtic Fringe'.
Spot on, Yorkie. It's easy for the metropolitan politicos and journalists to paint us all as multi-cultural, but the DNA and cultural heritage constitutes the vast majority of the population.
As you and I both know, Chris, emotional and political forces conspire to convince the British that the old 'Anglo-Saxon' and 'Celtic' identities are meaningless, urging us to embrace 'multi-culturalism'. In reality, 'multi-culturalism' merely equates to surface changes in popular culture, i.e, Chicken Tikka Masala replacing Fish and Chips as the 'nation's favourite dish' rather than to a new epoch in which 'racial harmony' has been achieved and old grudges buried forever.
The population underwent a great upheaval at the zenith of the Industrial Revolution, and since the 1950s has witnessed mass immigration from the Third World, but census returns show that 94% of the people are still of this white, 'Anglo-Saxon-Celtic' ethnicity. As Bodmer's team have shown, many of the 'old' patterns of distinctive phenotypical aggregates still remain. I for one find that rather splendid.