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Something that has always intrested me is the apparant (in my experience) class divide in how nordic the rural, upper/middle classes generally look when compared to the urban working classes, who seem to be more Celtic/British in comparison. Personally I think this is due to the fact Britain industrialised so throughly, and that the small-farm holding (peasent, if you like) class were driven out of there lands way earlier here, than in places like Germany. This led to mass migration into the cities from rural areas of the UK, a disproportionate amount from Ireland and Wales, into the cities which led to both nordic and celt/brit types intermixing (at very fast rates too). As the darker genes tend to be more dominant (my understanding of genetics is actually quite poor, but would I be right to assume that the child of one blue-eyed and one brown-eyed parent are more likely to create a brown-eyed child?) it led to the creation of a mainly celt/brit influenced working class, whilst the rural people who were left behind exhibit features which would have been more common among pre-industrialised English people.
Overall, I still hold that England is a Germanic nation in that I believe all English people have Germanic blood to some extent, even if mixed, and are more culturally influenced by a dominant Germanic culture, whilst not all English people have Celtic/British blood, mainly those in the rural and upper/middle classes. So even if genetic studies show a large influence of non Germanic blood it would be that of the mixed majority, rather than applicable to all English people. In any case, I believe that all the european peoples are basically the same, but that the nordic variety are a slightly more pure strain, but certainly the notion of "corrupted" blood is not one which I want to push, european is european Slavic, Germanic, Celtic are all different flavours in the same meal, it doesn't matter that much and people shouldn't be ashamed of mixed heritage anyway.
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