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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: What's the Celtic representation like in China?
Let's face it.... those with Celtic blood get things done. As a Canadian I always notice the British Isles last names and where they're from. I recall meeting a lot of Celts in China. How many of you are Celts?
I should add: Mother's family from Northern Ireland and Scotland, Dad's from Scotland. There's some more muttiness in there, but those are the celtc pars.
I'm a Celt! Well, half-Celt. My dads family is Welsh and my mums family are Saxon though there's some Scottish heritage in there. Despite being a phony Celt and growing up in South -East England I do have ginger hair and freckles and did my literature dissertation on The Mabinogion haha
I think Starbury played for the Celtics later in his NBA career. I hear he's doing pretty well in China.
Welsh through and through boyo and looking forward to saturday night for the start of the 6 Nations.
many chinese love the celtics. kevin garnett is big here.
I'm English so not a Celt, (or at least that's what I say), however my bloodline says different. Both of my parents were Scottish, although my Grandfather on my father's side insisted we were Picts not Celts, but that could be because of the modern perceived link between Celts and Catholics, (my fathers side were all Masons / Orangemen).
Hugh.G.Rection:
As far as I'm concerned I'm 100% English, that's where I was born, so to me, that's my nationality, but that comes from a childhood in England where being Scottish, (or anything different for that matter), was like wearing a t-shirt saying beat me up.
agj:
So you didnt walk around in a bowler hat and orange sash then
must have been interesting when the rugby was on the tv in your house boyo.
Hugh.G.Rection:
Interesting is one word for it. I've supported England in all sports, but especially Rugby (which I used to play), every time Scotland play England at anything it was an 'interesting' occasion.
As to the Bowler hat and sash, my father was in the Orange Lodge purely so he could join the Glasgow Rangers supporters club, (which was a requirement back then), and to antagonise the rest of his family who were Masons, I don't think he ever owned either a bowler hat or a sash, he did have a rather 'unorthodox' view on Catholicism though, although in his later years he did come round on that point and was even to be seen drinking in Catholic bars. (Shock horror! lol)
I'm from Glasgow, live in Dundee now, and spend a fair amount of time in China, usually between Zhuhai and Yangshuo, I find the Chinese students I've been with are amused by my arguments that Scotland is a country in it's own right,, it is not a province or county of England, nor is it really just part of England, and I also get amusement when Chinese friends introduce me to other Chinese friends as Yingguoren, and I immediately correct them with "bu dui, wo shi Sugelanren....." ..... they are often generally confused with UK countries, as their belief is that the UK is in fact England. But I think they enjoy learning about the make up of the UK, and especially are interested and amused at Scottish "skirts"...kilts. All in all, I think the Chinese I have been with enjoy talking and learning about Scotland, as well as all Celts in general.
I am an Irish Indian, mostly ........ we are quite famous for just being drunks, but often FUN drunks, so I make no apologies for my drunkeness.
What the...??? "Celts"???? "Celtic blood"??????
The real Celts were a loose collection of tribes that slowly emigrated from the Steppes of modern day Russia, heading west (with some tribes eventually ending up in Ireland. however, that was a few thousand years ago, and Ireland was already occupied. Those 'Celts' (which is more of a modern term, taken from the ancient Greek Keltoi) often settled in various places on the slow migration (which took place over more than 1000 years. The only real thing connecting what we call 'Celts' was similarity between languages, and some pottery/art styles - both of which are likely when peoples live next to each other.
The reality is, if you're French, you'll more than likely to have far more Celtic blood in you than if you were from England! Actually, if your bloodline is mostly from Central Europe, there's a high probability it's Celtic... Roman and Greek isn't.
Scotland was never 'Celtic' per se... it was Pictish. And most English have far more Roman blood in them than Celtic.
And, FTR, yeah, my blood is of the right colour for this discussion (and, I've got a name that everyone asks "Where's that from?', and occasionally someone will identify it as 'Welsh' - though it's quite old Cymric)
sorrel:
the irish (Celts) invaded, conquered the Picts and colonised Scotland - hence the similarity between Scots Gallic and Irish Gaelic. The following are Celtic languages: Brittany Isle of Man Cornwall Ireland Scotland Wales
Shining_brow:
I think you fall victim to the mis-understanding that 'celtic' actually equals 'Irish/Scot/Welsh'. History says it's incorrect, as I pointed out above.
The 'natives' of those lands weren't Celts - the Celts arrived quite some time after the native inhabitants had been living there for a while.... as I indicated above!!!
The Irish continually crossed the seas and raided what we now know as Britain, Wales and Scotland for centuries... and the Brits continually invaded Ireland.The Scots (ie, Picts) didn't have the boating technology to do the same to Ireland, and most of the 'Welsh' didn't have the manpower to do any serious 'conquering'... just the occasional raid.
The similarity of languages can be explained through trade and movements of people - not through a wholesale invasion.
But, as I said in my OP, "Celtic" actually refers to an amalgum of peoples starting out from the Steppes of Russia, which slowly migrated west over the period of a few thousand years.
(btw, your 'languages' are just place-names! If you actually mean Breton, Manx, Cornish, Gaelic (Irish and Scots), and Cymric.... then fine!) And, remember, Brittany is actually in France!