In general I know the asiatic archetypes, the hebraic gypsy teeth or the eyes or those ears that sometimes occur. But really I can't put it into words. All I can say is, there is no substitute for studying dozens, perhaps hundreds of pictures preferably with people you know to be one or the other, and regaining your eye for detail (something most people lose as a child, I read that somewhere). That was how I noticed that the English by and large are not Germanic. Well it's actually quite obvious if you know roughly what to expect Germans to look like.
Actually where I live, conservatively, is about 1/3 or 1/2 celts. Could be a majority. Of course there are the English names like Wats_n, Walk_r and Turn_r but there are also plenty of names like Qu_nn, Cost_llo, Maugh_n, Mack_nzie etc. I think it must be the industry here. Coal until the Thatcher era was 'the' job here, for many people. Go down the road barely twenty miles to Teesside and they are mostly English.I only knew one person who was a celt and knew it (Irish Catholic born in occupied Ulstr), and he bless him did nothing to abate the stereotype of Irish drinking. lmao.
Now that I am aware it's kind of weird (and a little frustrating) to see those who I know are not English, but they don't know and are I guess you could say under the British-Isrel brainwashing. I think they know or feel on a subconscious level this, and many prefer to fly the union jack rather than the st george cross for instance. That's how I felt anyway when I was younger, I instinctively knew a lot of this already but had not been able to put all the pieces together.
Wikipedia lists Sunderland among the major centres of Irish migration
“Hail brither Scots O’ Coaly Tyne”: networking and identity among Scottish migrants in the north east of England, ca.1860 – 2000.
Despite their significant presence throughout the modern era, Scottish emigrants to England have been neglected as a topic of research. At various times, Scottish in-migration to the north-east of England was greater than any other English region both numerically and proportionately. Its visibility was evident in terms of cultural expression through the myriad organisations established from the 1860s to the 1970s."
http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/2216/
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As a child in Scotland I found no difficulty in identifying catholics from protestants just by looking at them. There were no others in those days - except for a few Jews in the jewelry trade.
Interesting. Do you mean they were ethnically different, or their dress etc?
It was just their facial features. There were slight differences. Perhaps it was just in my town but I'm sure everyone was able to do this.
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