Published on 12, July, 2020
II'm amazed at how many people here say English isn't thier first language and presumably thier heritage isn't either. How fascinating, in my stunning and vast ignorance I'd assumed that most people here would be from the UK, how international are we as a group of users? By the way I think multinationalism and multiculturalism are great, so I'm not trying to make anyone uncomfortable or unwelcome.
I'm English and have the usual English problems with language, I can be dyslexic in as many languages as you want to try me with, including English. I recently had my DNA tested with an ancestry site as I was researching my family history and found that I'm 84% southern English, which is apparently quite rare, most British people are a mix of Saxon, Irish and Scandi genes, so it looks like my families have been knocking about the place for hundreds of years.
English - I live in rural England in a small village. I’ve researched my family tree and unfortunately I have no exciting ancestors from exciting foreign lands either - they were all English ‘peasants’!
All of my ancestors seem to have been peasants too, I don't think there should be any shame in that, afterall somebody had to do the work whilst knights were going around denting eachothers armour, lol.
I think those of us with a peasant background are maybe more interesting? Exactly how long have "we" been here? Did our ancestors see the arrival of the Romans, the Saxons, the Normans, were the great events in history just a change in who we paid tax too and who's land we worked? The movement of ancient populations is still very much an unknown, the evidence suggests more stability than previously though, with population replacement tending to occur at the top social strata than the bottom.