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I think that's it in a nutshell. In their heads it's clearly a zero sum game.
I had a quick look at the comments (I know), and lots related to that.
There is clearly something about discussions like this that make people feel like they are loosing something. The idea that if 'black people' have done something then it invalidates the pride they have taken on by association of 'white achievements'.
It seems odd to me that you can't, say think Brunel was impressive, and simultaneously find it interesting that current evidence points towards the original people of the British Isles having dark skin.
The angst of "rewriting history" is so frustrating. Even more so when we're talking about periods with so few sources.
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I just don't get how John Smith over here, decended from Normans (Germanic) and Anglo Saxons (Germanic) is trying to be proud of some heritage from the bronze age and denying that he's the product of immigration. Bloody Beaker Folk etc
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It also turns out that modern Brits are barely related at all to either the Mesolithic or Neolithic inhabitants of these isles, so if they're worried about their "racial purity" they're looking in the wrong place (and still wrong, of course). But I suppose it's the idea that non-white people did anything significant here that gets them.