'SAVE THE ANGLO-SAXON RACE!' - Matt Walsh and Conservatives INSANE Belief they are 'Anglo-Saxons'
0Anglo-Saxon England met its end at the hand of the Norman Invasion in 1066, and met its final fate in 1071. The Normans fundamentally changed England and what would later become the UK, but that hasn't stop many Americans and British from claiming they are Anglo-Saxons. This racial identity has its roots in the birth of Protestantism but took its modern shape in the mid-1800s as a way for Northern Europeans, Germanic people and English to differentiate themselves from other white groups of people. In short - saying they were better than the rest of the them.
This identity rears its head in characters like Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby, and several Founding Fathers believed the US was the successor state to Saxon England (among others like Sparta, Athens and Rome). Seemingly relegated to the days of European and American early 20th century colonialism, the identity is making a comeback now that US conservatives are shedding any mask they may have had. Last year, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene and other republicans declared they were basing a caucus on the traditions and identity of the Anglo-Saxons. In a recently leaked audio tape, Daily Wire pundit Matt Walsh has been heard decrying the supposed extinction of the Anglo-Saxon race due to immigration from Latin America.
The term Anglo-Saxon, is one that never really made much sense. The originals 'Anglo-Saxon' settlers compromised the groups of The Angles, The Saxons, The Jutes and The Frisians. Although some having common relations and ancestry these groups were not even the same, before invading and settling England, which had been under a cosmopolitan Roman Occupation for hundreds of years, and England itself already contained multiple different groups of people before the invasion. To say Saxon England was built on a melting pot of cultures would be accurate and that is before the Vikings and Normans both invaded and settled themselves.
Anglo-Saxon identity is a myth based on bad science and social construction of a exclusive identity. It doesn't hold up to any scrutiny but says so much about the people who claim to be an 'Anglo-Saxon' in 2022.
.00:00:00 - Intro
00:04:10 - The Real History of the Anglo-Saxons
00:10:40 - Matt Walsh thinks he is Anglo-Saxon
00:17:16 - People on Reddit Claim to be Anglo-Saxons
00:21:47 - History of Americans calling themselves Anglo-Saxon
00:23:53 - Closing Thoughts
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