I see you re trotting out the same old chestnuts The question is one of hegemony who has the power and who doesn t Minority cultures get deconstructed while accepted dominant norms do not You meekly accept the Royal Family s nonsense and mythology but not anything that would undermine them The UK and Britishness are built around such nonsense which falls apart under close examination We hear far less of that of course Sure Ron Davies and Rowan Williams are Welsh but this article only seems to deal with people who are well known from an English perspective Where are all the Bretons in the religion section for example The stuff about the origins of Episopalians in the USA the first bishops in the USA were ordained by the Scottish Episcopal Church because the Church of England refused to deal with the rebel colonies If the last part is supposed to be a veiled dig at me just because I live in Edinburgh doesn t mean I m from there originally Just like most of the people in New York City aren t Anyway Edinburgh was an Anglian city once and a Brythonic capital before that Apart from in the novels of Walter Scott someone who never bothered to learn Gaidhlig despite speaking several other languages Saxon Sasannach Sasunnach etc is not used in traditional Highland parlance to refer to Lowlanders The usual term is Gall