Who is 100% English?

[GibbosEmpire]

A while ago I got this DNA ancestry thing done, and it didn't surprise but I was a little bit all over Europe.
52% English and North Western Europe
28% Scottish
11% Irish
6% Swedish and Denmark
3% Norwegian

So it begs the question, all these gammons that don't like migrants coming over, we're all migrants one way or another, we wouldn't exist without it, begs the question, are these gammonheads 100% English?

 

[Cambsred]

I am. My mam said.

 

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

I'm 100% badass.

 

[Nobby_Barnes]

A while ago I got this DNA ancestry thing done, and it didn't surprise but I was a little bit all over Europe.
52% English and North Western Europe
28% Scottish
11% Irish
6% Swedish and Denmark
3% Norwegian

So it begs the question, all these gammons that don't like migrants coming over, we're all migrants one way or another, we wouldn't exist without it, begs the question, are these gammonheads 100% English?

Denmark and Sweden ARE North Western Europe !!!!

It sounds like a fiddle....
I would ask for a 52% Discount
Thanks

 

[SpineyNorman]

What is 100% English ?

 

[Corcaigh_the_Cat]

What is 100% English ?

A mixture of Roman and Norman perhaps?

 

[SpineyNorman]

What about Ancient Britons, Jutes, Anglo Saxon..... etc

Romans are Italian and Normans French

 

[SpineyNorman]

What about Ancient Britons, Jutes, Anglo Saxon..... etc

Romans are Italian and Normans French

Ah...... do I get a whoosh

 

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

Romans aren't Italian and the Norman's aren't french.
You could be a Roman from Gaul or a norman from Sicily. Norman comes from northman, as they came from Scandinavia.

 

[red_harrington]

I have a Saxon surname but if I went to any of the Scandinavian countries I wouldn't look out of place

 

[Frozen Horse]

What is 100% English ?

100% Angle? i.e. German.

 

[SpineyNorman]

Romans aren't Italian and the Norman's aren't french.
You could be a Roman from Gaul or a norman from Sicily. Norman comes from northman, as they came from Scandinavia.

A generalisation / simplification I concede, but they're not English. Which was my point.

 

[Boro_Interlinked]

These ancestry thingies are 100% jokish and not to be taken serioulsyish

 

[Chutney]

100% Angle? i.e. German.

Don't be so obtuse

 

[LordStockton]

My grandmother did hers a few years ago.... DNA wise, she's 0% English!

So far we've traced the family tree back to around 1700s in Lincolnshire

I guess 300 years or so isn't that long from a DNA point of view

 

[gramercy]

I guess it all depends on how far you go back.

In my view it’s cannot be possible to be 100% English French, Chinese or anything else for that matter. As the theory is we all come from the primordial ooze.

But does that then mean it’s not possible to be 10%/20%/30% of anything as really they don’t exist?

 

[Colgates_shaving_foam]

These days, if you say you you're English you get arrested and thrown in jail. You do, these days.

 

[Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret]

These ancestry thingies are 100% jokish and not to be taken serioulsyish

Good crime fighting tool though! A number of cold cases have been solved thanks to ancestry websites.

 

[TeaCider]

Nowhere near, and both my parents were English.

Mum's parents were from Scotland.

I think my Dad's mam's family were from Germany at some point, judging from her maiden name.

Sadly, got no Irish or Welsh in the family that I know of.

 

[afcb_acklam]

what's a border? just a line someone drew. I don't really get the fuss.