| I know this is going to be difficult for you to hear (or it | | | | the Celtic people had laid claim to the European lands, |
| may be meaningless to you), but I ask that you hear | | | | this is the era where the Anglo-Saxon Germanic tribes |
| me out. Regardless what you may have been taught, | | | | (self-declared "white" people) were invading the |
| Celtic people are no more a part of the white people | | | | European continent (and were declaring white |
| community than Jews are. In fact, their history as a | | | | supremacy even as far back as this - if you didn't get |
| people is strikingly similar to Jewish history - to include | | | | conquered and slaughtered by them, then you were |
| the modern inter-societal problems existing today in | | | | expected to become absorbed into the "white" culture |
| both nations. It's been awhile since I've studied Celtic | | | | and give up your ethnic identity - hence, the eventual |
| history, so dates wise I'll attempt to be somewhere in | | | | creation of the term "WASP - white anglo saxon |
| the general ball park. But, here is a little of the history. | | | | protestant"). |
| The Celtic languages (Irish, Scottish) are offshoots of | | | | By this 5th century CE time period, the Celtic people |
| African tribal languages. And, before settling in Europe, | | | | had already given up their warrior lifestyle for the |
| the Celtic people lived in the Middle East (@ 6 BCE). | | | | literary, and were attempting to educate the warrior |
| The Celts were a powerful group of warrior tribes that | | | | tribes that were entering their lands. But, far too many |
| conquered lands as they moved west toward, first, the | | | | Anglo-Saxons were coming into the land and there |
| Greek empire and then, eventually, Europe. | | | | intent was to conquer rather than be proselytized. |
| Somewhere around the end of the 4th century BCE, | | | | These invading tribes learned what the Celts had to |
| the Celts invaded the Greek empire and originated the | | | | teach them very well (thus became proselytized, |
| country now known as Turkey. | | | | nevertheless) and, then, used this very teaching for |
| In the Greco-Roman Christian bible the Celts of Turkey | | | | their crusades against Israel, Spain and, ultimately, |
| were referred to as the Galatians, who the first | | | | (being unsuccessful with those campaigns) against |
| Christian missionaries (seven centuries later) tried to | | | | Ireland (unfortunately, they devasted the Celts and |
| Christianize very unsuccessfully. The word Galatian in | | | | turned them into slaves). To this very day, the Irish and |
| the Christian bible is a very close approximation of | | | | Scottish people are fighting for their independence |
| what the Celts of Turkey called themselves. Having still | | | | from the Anglo-Saxons, and it doesn't help that the Irish |
| yet the nomadic nature, descendants of the Turkish | | | | are still having inter-tribal conflicts like there ancestors |
| Celts moved on from Turkey and eventually settled in | | | | of so many centuries before (protestants versus |
| Europe, finally settling in Ireland (@ 350 BCE). It would | | | | catholics, this is what they call it now). And, then came |
| not be until the fall of Rome and Greece around 5 CE | | | | the modern plague that nearly wiped out the Gaelic |
| (approximately 900 year later), that the Irish Celts | | | | speaking Irish natives of Ireland (@ 19 CE). But, |
| would take an interest in Christian literature. And, if the | | | | fortunately for the world Celtic culture is on the |
| Irish people had not taken this literary interest, then | | | | rebound, the history is being remembered, and the |
| Christianity would have become an extinct religion. For | | | | native languages are still being spoken and taught (they |
| an understanding of this time period, 9 centuries after | | | | now have schools for this purpose in Ireland). |