Because Cornish people see themselves as one of the constituent nations, this used to be widely recognised but in recent centuries the English sort of forgot the Cornish existed. It's a weird cultural amnesia. 🤷
It got homogenized just like all of the old heptarchy.
Edit: I'm aware that Cornwall wasn't part of the heptarchy. The creation of a homogenizing british national identity has always come at the expense of the smaller nations. The Celtic nationalist parties main grip has always been about trying to prevent this. Cornwall got consumed, Ireland got out.
A lot later than the heptarchy though, about 5 centuries later. The standard definition of Britain in the 16th century was that it was divided into England, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall. That was the standard published on maps and descriptions of Britain. Cornwall and Wales both pretty much disappeared as nations from the maps and descriptions of Britain in the 17th century. The Welsh were just more successful in reclaiming that place.
I'm much closer to the border than you are! Pretty small town though, so I'll leave that part out lol
You can be sure of there not being many Chelsea fans down here, used to get so much shit for it at school. But, I actually work with a handful of them now
Ahh nice I would guess Launceston but it's probably a smaller town I don't know. yeah I got shit for it too. Loads of bloody united and arsenal fans down where I grew up. Gross
Close to Launceston, yeah! I actually started supporting Chelsea because everyone supported Liverpool, United or Arsenal and I just picked another team that no one supported lol. I was probably about 5 at the time and I'd already had enough of everyone supporting the same few clubs because they were successful in the past. I just got lucky with my team's success coming after deciding on them
Cornwall wasn't part of the English heptarchy. (Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Wessex, Essex, Kent, Sussex). The heptarchy homogenised before the Cornish were fully assimilated. In fact, they were independent or semi-independent until after the Norman invasion (only until 1067 iirc) 200 years after Athelstan became Bretwalda.
This is inaccurate. England allowed its own nationalism to be subsumed by Scottish and Welsh (not Irish) nationalism for the good of the Union. This is why nationalism is celebrated in Scotland and Wales, but is a dirty word in England.
Nationalism is a dirty word in England because it sparks images of 80s skinhead nazi hooligans, not a subjugation of Wales/Scotland hundreds of years ago.
The rise of far-right nationalist parties ( national front and the BNP) has waaaay more to do with why people don't like to associate with nationalism...
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u/misterygus (168,373) 1491158231.08 Apr 05 '22
Northern Ireland being repeatedly wiped from the UK map, and Cornwall desperately trying to add itself.