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Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by ceejayoz on Friday July 10, 2020 @04:53PM (#23796338)
> The English are an ethnic minority in London.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London

63% of London was born in the UK. You mean white English, I presume? Even there, they're a plurality.

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Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by rjkennedy98 on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:37PM (#23797393)
Ethnically English. Can you read?
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Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by ceejayoz on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:54PM (#23797538)
English isn’t an ethnicity.
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Re:John Cleese: Political Correctness Can Lead to an Orwelli... by dragonwriter on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:17PM (#23799168)
> English isn’t an ethnicity.

That’s pretty clearly not true, though the boundaries of that ethnicity will be perceived differently by different people.

“The English people are a nation and an ethnic group native to England who speak the English language, and share a common history and culture. The English identity is of early medieval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Angelcynn ('family of the Angles').”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_people

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