Originally posted by Sava
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The islands of this archipelago have seen repeated waves of immigrants, from the Celts, to the Romans, to the Germanic Angles and Saxons, the Danes, Norwegians (and probably not a few Swedes too) to the Norman French, Bretons, Huguenots from the Spanish Netherlands, Sephardic Jews from Portugal and Spain, French Huguenots, Africans (going back to at least Anglo Saxon times) to large scale Ashkenazi Jewish immigration in the 19th Century and as recently as 1945-1946, 100 000 Poles all at the same time.
This country had Europe's first Chinatown in the 18th Century, had a community of African descent in Elizabeth Tudor's time in London, and the borough I live in is one the most linguistically diverse areas in the Western world.
And yes, all these different people do get married to each other and do have children. So give up on the 'inbred island' schtick, 'cos it aint funny and it's just a bit too much like Sister Bendy's piss poor attempts at getting history right.
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