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by kelipso 1291 days ago
Aren't most of those people waving Union Jacks genetically/ethnically Anglo? As in they are descendants of people from England.
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Some from an English background, some from a Scottish background. Parts of the north of Ireland were colonised by Britain in the early 1600s - have a look at the Wikipedia articles for ‘Plantation of Ulster’ and ‘Ulster Protestants’
Similarly to descendants of Russians in Donbass or Transnistria.

Or the elective majority in North America. Descendants of the people displaced and oppressed are still here, in radically reduced number.

The same story has played out all over the world, for tens of millennia. It is not less objectionable for that.