Dying Breed
It won’t happen in our lifetimes but I find it interesting that the racial category I will call Anglo for purposes of this blog will, in a few hundred years, be statistically extinct.It is already incredibly challenging to find population percentages for the race that combined the Celts, Saxons, Vikings, Romans and Normans to produce the Anglos – that ever-bubbling melting pot of people who played a huge role in world history because of their insatiable desire to travel to other parts of the world, meet new people and, usually, try to convert, kill, or enslave them.
Those stroppy islanders had particularly significant impact in North America, Australia, and large swathes of Africa (usually butting heads with pesky Europeans in territory disputes along the way) but now we are ourselves vanishing into the melting pots of the world – we have close to negative population growth, and the majority of those producing busily on these shores are immigrant populations or mixed.
What, you read this far? Have a coffee!
there are comments coming up with more fascinating statistics for you. It’s like a school day. Yay! I'm particularly interested to see how many have a kneejerk reaction that this is a racist blog. It isn't. It is simply about a race of people who affected the world. Most of them happened to be a whiter shade of pale, falling into a much bigger demographic (see comments)
The song is completely irrelevant, apart from the title. Not a bad song, though.
Comments (88)
They came from a bunch of websites - about 6 in all.
And no, I don't know why I was fascinated. But I was.
Doubt you are.
I am cruising the funeral homes this afternoon though.
You'd look good in a black suit, I think.
Just change the whole thing to 'what do you look good in?' or even 'Procol Harum look seriously naff in those outfits'?
Sorry for the
I don't know why they deleted me.
That led me to the other websites.
It's a grisly job, but someone has to do it.
Still, I know you are trying your best to disseminate your heritage as far and wide as possible to as many recipients as you can, so you can take marks for trying.
Tricky one. Spend all the money and time having kids, or rush round having a great time before the world ends? Hmmmmmm.
Oh, I agree we carried and left a lot of baggage around the world, and changed the shape of it forever, and changed the lives of pretty nearly every race we touched. Along with the Dutch and Portuguese who were the main international travelers around the same time. Spanish and German - especially later, for the Germans - played a pretty big role too but
Including you, Miss Molly. You fall into the group too, yeah, you know that?
White yes.
Reduced population yes.
hell I aided it
What's past is past and cannot be undone. The future implies we will in time have no voice left at all and the history books will be re-written as the heritage is perceived at that time ...
Capitalism really hasn't done the world any favours.
So boo to imperialism
YOUTUBE - Demographic collapse of Europe gonch28
In the vid...
'...Don't you get it?!' - Putin
I am truly global