Cambridge is reportedly teaching that Anglo-Saxons never existed as a unique ethnic group to dispel alleged nationalist 'myths' about Britain.
According to the paper, one Cambridge lecturer claimed that the term “Anglo-Saxon” has been wrapped up in “indigenous race politics”.
It comes amid a wider movement in academia to link the historical group of Germanic Angles, Jutes, and Saxon peoples who arrived after the end of Roman controlled Britain and the conquest of the Normans with alleged racism, which many claim has been fostered in America. The attempt to brand the term as toxic has succeeded to such an extent that the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists decided in 2019 to change its name to the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England due to “the problematic connotations that are widely associated with the terms ‘Anglo-Saxon’.
Cambridge’s claims about the history of England have sparked a heated backlash in Britain, with political commentator Paul Embery : “Just imagine a university saying the same thing about, say, Aboriginal Australians, Maoris or Native Americans.”: “We aren’t having it, you smarmy pseudo intellectual subversives. We, the English, exist. We have existed for a thousand years, and that isn’t going to change now. No discussion. No dialectic. We are the English and we live in England. Simple as.”
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