ThisGreatWorld™, The English People
So now to look at the people who are ‘English’. Our starting point is that there are virtually none of original dwellers left, they, the Angles, were driven into Wales etc. We have been successively invaded up until 1066. From then on the concept of
We have always been a safe haven for the oppressed people of Europe and then of the rest of the world whether they be the Hugenots, the Jews, people who were brought here as prisoners of war and then stayed on, the people who didn’t want to return to the USSR, people escaping the French and then the Russian revolutions, the Chinese, Africans, Eurasians, Caribbean, the Hong Kong Chinese. Plus people from the rest of the world who wanted to join the success of
The underlying characteristics of the ‘English’ could be said to be:
- English speaking, as without this the underlying mores of society cannot be communicated
- Having Christian beliefs and the values of helping other people
- Belief in self-determination, self-responsibility and self-control
- Belief in democracy and the rule of English law
- Freedom of speech and the freedom of the individual
- Being held to be innocent until proven innocent
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Christian as in:
- Love one another as I have loved you
- Do unto others as you would be done by
- Love thy neighbour as thyself
- God so loved the world that He gave His only Son to save us
- Father, forgive them for they know not what they do
- Forgive them that trespass against us
- Whosoever shall strike thee on thy cheek turn to him the other also
- Should a man steal thy shoes give him thy cloak also
- Thou shalt not kill
- Thou shalt not steal,
- Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour
- Thou shalt not commit adultery
- Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house etc
- Let him who is without sin cast the first stone
- Love conquers all
Love as in self-sacrifice:
- Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends
- Titus Oates “I shall be gone a little while” when he left Scott and his colleagues and went out into the blizzard to die
- “Tis a far far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before” Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- The Danish people who wore The Star of David on their sleeves to protect their Jews from persecution by the Nazis
- Love suffereth long and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.