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**Olphander** · 08-30-2011, 09:41 AM

I am pretty Anglicized myself, but I like to believe I've kept my sense of empathy for others. And even though I do indulge in it, I think their culture is sick (as much as I watch shows like CSI, play violent video games like Mortal Kombat, and listen to some violent rap), at least I have my own non-violent culture to go back to when I turn that shit off.

I can agree that there is something cold about Germanic Anglo-Saxon types, compared to our Gaelic neighbours anyway, but I don't think we have a sick mentality.

Our earliest Anglo-Saxon ancestors developed a conquering mentality, they were pirates and mercenaries who raped, pillaged, plundered and exterminated the indigenous Britons. A war mongering mentality may still exist among us, but it is not unique to Anglo-Saxons. For a start, almost every English person has Norman blood, the Normans had interbred with the Gauls; so some of that Anglo evil may have rubbed off on the French.

Rap is hardly Anglo-Saxon, the words are in English but that is about as close a connection as I can fathom. I don't think rap would find much of a home among Boston WASPs, for example.

08-30-2011, 09:41 AM	#40
Olphander Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 621 Senior Member	I am pretty Anglicized myself, but I like to believe I've kept my sense of empathy for others. And even though I do indulge in it, I think their culture is sick (as much as I watch shows like CSI, play violent video games like Mortal Kombat, and listen to some violent rap), at least I have my own non-violent culture to go back to when I turn that shit off. I can agree that there is something cold about Germanic Anglo-Saxon types, compared to our Gaelic neighbours anyway, but I don't think we have a sick mentality. Our earliest Anglo-Saxon ancestors developed a conquering mentality, they were pirates and mercenaries who raped, pillaged, plundered and exterminated the indigenous Britons. A war mongering mentality may still exist among us, but it is not unique to Anglo-Saxons. For a start, almost every English person has Norman blood, the Normans had interbred with the Gauls; so some of that Anglo evil may have rubbed off on the French. Rap is hardly Anglo-Saxon, the words are in English but that is about as close a connection as I can fathom. I don't think rap would find much of a home among Boston WASPs, for example.
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