5 thoughts on “Anglo-Saxon Tribal Kingdoms”

  1. Or they did. Note that the sampling was limited to those with 4 grandparents who came from the same area. You’ve got twisted data right there.

    At best, it’s really an indicator for the “Downton Abbey” era.

    That being said, family geographic mobility in the UK has been smaller than many other places. Except that London has always been a mix and a mecca.

  2. This just reinforces the view of the Trevor Phillips article that the people of the UK are unable to cope with mixing whether they want to face up to it or not. They’ve just added a lot of new tribes to their mix of well-established ones. They might as well go ahead and carve out some fresh territories for the Indians, Pakistanis, Chinese, Nigerians, Germans, French, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans, Jamaicans, Columbians, Romanians, and Poles.

  3. Don’t miss this : The ‘People of the British Isles’ study analysed the DNA of 2,039 people from rural areas of the UK, whose four grandparents were all born within 80km of each other. so forget about the 90% of the population living urban lives, we’re limiting ourselves to the British hillbillies here, so most of the grandparents are probably cousins anyway.

  4. I live in East Oxford, which is a very mixed area. I’m English. I sublet rooms in my house; over the years I’ve had quite a variety of people living here — black African, Chinese, Japanese, Malaysian, Tibetan, Indian, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Baltic Russian, as well as English.

    I didn’t think much of the article you linked to; most British live in cities, of course, and are quite mobile. I’ve moved from near Cambridge to the South West to Lancaster to Oxford over my lifetime.

    Stephen

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