Why do protestant unionists in northern ireland insist they are "anglo saxon lowland scots" and not celtic irishmen?

  • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    Why do protestant unionists in northern ireland insist they are “anglo saxon lowland scots” and not celtic irishmen?

    They are. Different ethnicity. Different language-group. Different ancestors. They're foreigners whose ancestors came here.

    Just like blue-eyed Europeans living in America are not Native Americans.

    • FearsomeJoeandmac [he/him, he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 months ago

      True. It's just weird how these ulster orangement insist they are anglo saxon when modern lowland scots consider themselves celts-

      I guess they are just that afraid of being called irish-

      Really pathetic

      • frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml
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        3 months ago

        Irish nationalists agree: them lot are Brits

        It'd be weird and false for Anglo-Saxons to start claiming to be Native American.

        • imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]
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          3 months ago

          you kind of are doing a sectarianism here... Protestants will have to be included in a future all-irish project one way or the other. I'm Irish but I know there's Protestants in my family line... plenty of us "Celtic" Irish are descended from colonisers too. refusing to admit that is pretty cringe, what are you the one true Irishman? it's more meaningless of a distinction than ever these days now that we're white too. I'm on board with telling anyone still identifying as a Brit to fuck off but painting all Protestants with the same brush the way you are doing is bare faced sectarianism.

        • FearsomeJoeandmac [he/him, he/him]
          hexagon
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          3 months ago

          I mean I have a lot of ancestry in ulster from my Scott family lime. I've always just said I have irish ancestry