DaGaffer
Down With That Sorta Thing
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Not only london, the whole island really. As eddie izzard put it; mongrel nation.
A lot of inherently british is actually from somewhere else.
Nothing wrong in that mind you, diversity equals progress.
Turns out that's kind of not true. The British are great at absorbing other cultures, but genes remain stubbornly "British" across most of the south and Midlands (a slightly different story along the northeast and northwest coasts where the Danes and Norwegians fucked their way to permanence). Until recently (last 60 years) most immigrant waves were absorbed with barely a ripple in the gene pool that had been around since the bronze age. Its all changing now of course, but that's true almost everywhere (I read somewhere that the Swedes have permanently affected the gene pool of northeast Thailand for example).