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Ireland is incredibly similar to the UK, a Germanic nation.
Yes, it is... I understand...but THE CULTURE of Ireland or the UK is not really similar to German CULTURE. It's not similar to Latin CULTURE.
I think the OP is having difficulty understanding the meaning of the word and mistaking CULTURE for genetics/DNA/bloodline/reproductive history. They are not the same thing at all. We aren't speaking in terms of thousands years back, are we?
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Neither. That being said, Celts live, more or less, peacefully with both cultures (Spain and UK). Clongirl, as a side note, the Irish aren't the only ones who are Celtic. The Celtic people also consists of Scots, Welsh, Britons, Cornish, and Galicians.
I thought that most non latin cultures in western Europe developed from early Germanic tribes.
Yes, it is... I understand...but THE CULTURE of Ireland or the UK is not really similar to German CULTURE. It's not similar to Latin CULTURE.
I think the OP is having difficulty understanding the meaning of the word and mistaking CULTURE for genetics/DNA/bloodline/reproductive history. They are not the same thing at all. We aren't speaking in terms of thousands years back, are we?
Since Ireland was invaded and partly settled by England and they imposed their language and culture, I guess that they are superficially similar to former rulers. But Ireland shares many thing with western Catholic Europe, because Irish are mostly Catholics and their Culture is shaped by Catholicism....and Catholic were also their allies (France and Spain) that tried to protect the country from British atrocities.
And yes, there's a similarity between the inhabitants of the Atlantic seaboard (France and Spain) and Irish perhaps due to similar weather and the same religion, ancestral relationships, etc, etc. As to Celtic culture, is dead and over. Romans destroyed Celtic culture in Western Europe, Catholicism ended the work.
Romans and later Catholics supressed druids and their culture, and without druids, there's no Celtic culture.
As to Germanic culture, what is that? The only thing Germanic left is their language (very influenced by Latin and Greek). The Germanic Law is not applied, the Germanic Gods are dead and their culture comes from Rome and Greece.
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Celts were people that lived under a culture that does no exist. There's no Celt Race. Romans and Germanic invaders destroyed and confined celts to the corners of Western Europe (Brittany, Wales, Galicia, Scotland and Ireland).
The five "Celtic" nations are a myth, since they were deculturised and christianised, most of their languages and religions disappeared. Celtic culture can't survive without their biggest component, Druids, Religion, and invaders killed them on sight many centuries ago.
Later, much later, Romanticist came, XIXth Century, and procclaimed that all pipe players that drank beer were Celts.
Your first sentence sounds a bit off the mark and needs a little checking.
If there is no Celtic culture then there is also no Germanic, Romance/Latin, Slavic etc.
It is a bit silly to say it does not exisit.
The six "Celtic" nations you mean is not a myth today, because without a language no culture can exisit.
So they have right and a purpose of exsisting due to them keeping their languages along with their costumes, foods etc, which was unfortunate for the others who do not keep theirs.
And these are Alba (Scotland), Erie (Ireland), Mannin (Isle of Man), Cymru (Wales), Kernow (Cornwall) and Breizh (Brittany).
I didn't mean to offend anyone. I'm not saying Celtic culture isn't unique. I'm just asking which do you think it has more similarities to - German or Latin culture?
I would think Celtic culture is more of it's own than being related to any other culture.
If I had to choose it would be Germanic culture.
The countries (such as South Germany, Austria, Switzerland) that are part of this Germanic culture where actually also originally Celtic before the Germanic tribes arrived and took them over.
Although some Romance cultures (such as ancient Northern Italians, ancient Albanians like the Illyrians and perhaps Thracians from Romania) can also be considered.
Why are people associating Christianity with the Celts? They had their own religion. Isn't that what we would be comparing to other areas of Europe? Pre-Christian religions? So, were Celtic gods and goddesses similar to Germanic ones (Thunder god, etc.), or to Roman ones? Or do all of them have enough commonalities that they can all be recognized as coming from the same Indo-European roots? And what about the Celtic belief in sprites and other supernatural beings? How does that compare? Were there any other unique features to their religion?
Uk or Ireland culture isn't close to germany at all. Its close to American culture/Australian culture.
Have you ever, when on holidays with your parents, been to Germany? All English/British and also Irish people I have met (although I don't know any people from Ulster) and who have been to Germany confirmed to me that they are closer to Germany than America. The exception here is the language, of course. Culturally and historically European countries have grown closer, while America went its own way, largely uninterested of what the rest of the world is doing, unless business and power are concerned.
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