In a “anti-racist” endeavour to dispel nationalist “myths” about Britain, Cambridge University is reportedly teaching its students that the Anglo-Saxons never existed as a distinct ethnic group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to a report in London’s Daily Telegraph, the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic (ASNC) at the once-prestigious Cambridge University in England is now attempting to dismantle the very ideas inherent in the department’s title, claiming that the Anglo-Saxon ethnic group is apparently a racist concoction meant to stoke British nationalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The department’s anti-English stance is intended to make its history lessons “more anti-racist.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“One concern has been to address recent concerns over use of the term ‘Anglo-Saxon’ and its perceived connection to ethnic\/racial English identity,” the department said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn general, ASNC teaching seeks to dismantle the basis of myths of nationalism\u2026 by showing students just how constructed and contingent these identities are and always have been,\u201d they continued. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unsatisfied with destroying the claimed “myth” of the Anglo-Saxon people, the university department went on to declare that the peoples of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales never had a “coherent” racial identity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cambridge\u2019s claims about the history of England have sparked a heated backlash in Britain, with political commentator Paul Embery writing: \u201cJust imagine a university saying the same thing about, say, Aboriginal Australians, Maoris or Native Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Former UKIP politician turned host of the Lotus Eaters Podcast, Carl Benjamin\u00a0said: \u201cWe aren\u2019t having it, you smarmy pseudo intellectual subversives. We, the English, exist. We have existed for a thousand years, and that isn\u2019t going to change now. No discussion. No dialectic. We are the English and we live in England. Simple as.\u201d<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a “anti-racist” endeavour to dispel nationalist “myths” about Britain, Cambridge University is reportedly teaching its students that the Anglo-Saxons never existed as a distinct ethnic group. According to a … <\/p>\n