(there goes another keyboard to the de-coffee-ing labs...)
(Not being of "English" descent) I have often commented on "just who are the English, anyway...?" and have come up with this viewpoint... "being English is not a race of people, it is a state of mind..."
My roots are (sort of) Pictish-Nordic, but a Londoners roots...? Roman, Saxon, Norman/Danish, Indian, Mediteranean, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Turk, African, Caribbean, Arabic, blah, blah, blah...