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Any such thing as a native Briton?

The closest anyone can come to being an original native must be the Celts:
the Welsh, the Scottish Gaels, the Irish, and the Cornish though there are
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people of Celtic origin throughout Britain. But even the Celts werent originally
native to Britain; they came from the continent, as did the Romans, the
Angles and Saxons, and the Normans.
The Scots and the Irish have a better claim to be natives, but its complicated
because of all the swapping theyve done over the years. The Celtic
Irish are certainly native to Ireland, but on the other hand, just how long do
you have to be settled in a place before you can call yourself a native? Ulster
Protestants have been in Ireland for as long as whites have been in America,
and a lot longer than the Europeans have been in Australia and New Zealand,
yet some people still have a problem calling them Irish.

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