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