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 What era gave most to the English people in England and their descendents elsewhere?  The names ""Angle"" (Scandinavian, like ""Norman"") and ""Scot"" (Irish) are of Barbarian invaders who used their tribal establishment to rule over the Britons, just as the Romans, Gauls and French conformed the land and people to their own dictates.  The English are South-West European, once part of the Western Roman Empire.  Britain's first choice in WWII was the Stresa Front and the extremists there were Fascist (e.g. Mosley), not National-Socialist.  Even in this day and age, the favoured epithet directed towards Englishmen is ""Imperialist"" rather than ""Nazi"".  I myself am not counted by White Supremacists as part of the Nordic race, apparently one of the Mediterranean race (with, as I hope, roots in Troy).  You can bet your arse that I favour Leonidas over Xerxes!  To Hell with Aryans, Iran and Persia. 

 A hostile clique of eccentric aristocrats in England count German Protestants to be vital for their anti-Napoleonic accoutrements.  They hate the French and Scottish dynasties in English history with a passion (admittedly based on the Hundred Years' War) and act as if Rome had nothing to do with us in contradistinction with France or Spain/Portugal.  They spin English identity to hinge entirely on parliamentarianism, capitalism and industry, glorifying in hatred of the French but forgetting the Parisian prize won by Henry V, dominating the Scottish but forgetting the British reunification dream fulfilled by James I, or considering the Irish to be little better than rubbish.  Those partisans are intolerant and crackpot fundamentalists, doing a disservice to England and the English.  Compare American fundamentalists and you get my drift.   "