Post ASmFHN97LDpcKlxSrY by lassielmr@glasgow.social
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 (DIR) Post #ASmFHMGWcCA9bSPrlo by wesdym@mastodon.social
       2023-02-16T19:34:50Z
       
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       A reminder: Unless your family has lived in the red area of the below map for at least the last quarter million years, you're an immigrant or descended from immigrants. So get over your hangups about that already.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASmFHMlikD7HAD0mOW by Remittancegirl@mstdn.social
       2023-02-17T09:52:23Z
       
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       @wesdym @cstross I always find it hilarious when racists and xenophobes shout 'Speak English' at immigrants, completely unaware that English contains almost nothing of the original indigenous languages of the British Isles before the Romans and the Vikings arrived.
       
 (DIR) Post #ASmFHN97LDpcKlxSrY by lassielmr@glasgow.social
       2023-02-17T14:18:23Z
       
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       @Remittancegirl @wesdym @cstross I heard an older English woman scream ‘speak English you’re in Britain’ at my friend who was speaking Gaelic to his dad in a shop on Barra -their first language. Everyone in the shop then started speaking Gaelic and she was reminded Scotland had 3 official languages and Gaelic was widely spoken in the Outer Hebrides. She was not pleased. Was both pathetic and funny.