I am British, Am I Celtic?

Question

I am British, Am I Celtic?

Answer 1

Between 80% and 90% of the genetic make-up of traditional British people originates in the Germanic tribes who migrated into Britain between the Sixth Century and the Middle Ages. (Even the Normans were mainly Germanic - they had originally been Vikings who colonised Normandy).

This means that most British people are overwhelmingly Germanic, but with a small trace of Celtic genetic inheritance. But then some British people will be pure Germanic, and a minority will be mainly Celtic (though nearly always with some Germanic genetic material also).

The main identifier for Celtic inheritance in Britain is belonging to the B blood-group - which is much commoner among Celts than among Germans. If you have B group blood you are far more likely to be Welsh or Irish than English.

Answer 2

English people are a melting pot. Germanic peoples (Jutes, Angles, Saxons, Danes, Normans, Flemings), Brythonic Celts, Roman colonists and ancient Ice Age Europeans (See Picts & Finno-Ugrian peoples) have all contributed to the population.

Generally speaking, the eastern part of England has always been more Germanic while the western part and Wales have always been more Celtic and even pre-Celtic.

Celtic still had some speakers  in Cornwall until 1777 and in Cumbria until about 1400. The Cumbrian language seems to have been very similar to Welsh from the little we know about it.

However,  there is no neat, definitive line of demarcation separating the two populations. For example, DNA testing shows some of the strongest Scandinavian elements in the English population happen to be in Cumbria (Cumberland) in the Northwest.

The Celtic and pre-Celtic elements in the British population were reinforced by large migrations of Scots and Irish into Liverpool which began around 1850. Some of their descendants have since then migrated to other parts of England.

Answer 3

The same thing could go this way, "I'm American, am I Native American?"

Not necessarily. :)  

Answer 4

no ur celtic if your irish i think?

Answer 5

Not necessarily.  You could be jute, or pict or saxon, or any combination...you might have French, as well.

How are we supposed to know the answer to that?

Answer 6

Are you Irish, if so then yeah.

Answer 7

Though the word "Celtic" is properly indicative of language, not race ...

If your ancestry includes Scottish forebears, yes.

If your ancestry includes Welsh, yes

If your ancestry includes Irish, yes

If your ancestry includes Manx, yes

If your ancestry includes Cornish, yes

If your ancestry includes Breton, yes

If your ancestry includes Galician, yes

Answer 8

I am 100% British too. I am not sure if you are Celtic too.