What race do most British people belong to?

Most British people belong to the Anglo-Saxon race. English people, also known as English people, are the main ethnic groups in Britain. From the racial point of view, English people are considered to be descendants of Anglo-Saxons.

Anglo-Saxons do not refer to a nation, but usually refer to some peoples who lived in the eastern and southern parts of Great Britain between the early 5th century A.D. and the Norman Conquest in 166. They use very similar Western European dialects, and are considered by historian Bede as three powerful Western European nations-the Angles and Jutes from jutland and the descendants of the Saxons from later called Lower Saxony.

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English people are the aborigines in England, and their mother tongue is English. They had a high degree of identity when they were called "Englishmen" in English more than a thousand years ago. English people mainly live in England, the constituent country of Britain.

From the national point of view, the English people are considered to be the descendants of the Anglo-Saxons, which are formed by the combination of the British who migrated from the British tribal group and the British who merged with the local British tribal group in the long-term historical development.

The word Anglo-Saxon comes from the classical documents of the time of Alfred the Great. In the document, he seems to frequently use the name rex Anglorum Saxonum or rex Angul-Saxonum.

The meanings of the old English words aenglisc and Angelcynn ("angle-kin", gens anglorum) have been proved to be different from their original intention of referring exclusively to the Angles and excluding the Saxons. Early records show that they refer to the western European peoples who migrated to England after the fifth century.

at the beginning of the eighth century, in his "History of the Church and People in England", Bede proposed that most people in the northern kingdom of England (East Anglia, Mercia and Northumbria) are Angles, and they came from the Angeln Peninsula in Schleswig-Holstein (western Europe), hence the name.

The people of Essex, Saskatchewan and Wessex are Saxons, and they come from the ancient Saxony region. The people of Kent and South Ham belong to the Jute tribe.

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