Ah - I should probably clarify what I'm on about here actually!
This is kind of what I'm getting at when I try and make a distinction between 'racial' identity and 'cultural' identity. 'Cultural' can of course encompass an 'attitude' and an 'ideology' even. This is certainly arguable if we're talking about Jews - if we define a Jew as som…
Ah - I should probably clarify what I'm on about here actually!
This is kind of what I'm getting at when I try and make a distinction between 'racial' identity and 'cultural' identity. 'Cultural' can of course encompass an 'attitude' and an 'ideology' even. This is certainly arguable if we're talking about Jews - if we define a Jew as someone who practises 'Jewism'. i.e. Judaism - this is a linguistic thing with regards to English, in which the person 'Jew' doesn't have the 'd' in it. In German, ironically, it's much clearer as the word for the person 'Jude' obviously relates to the -ism 'Jude-ism' (Judaismus is the actual German). This may of course explain the historical German attitude towards Jews (i.e. 'followers of Judaism') - given the critique of monotheism/Judaeo-Christianity inherent in 'the Enlightenment', which was very prominent in Germany of course, it kind of explains the development of anti-Judaism in Germany. In that sense, it also suggests that the definition is not based on 'ethnicity' or 'race', but on 'ideology'. And naturally it's perfectly acceptable to criticise an ideology, because it's not perceived as 'personal' - although, foolishly imho, an ideology that is dressed up to look like a 'religion' is suddenly granted the status of a 'protected characteristic' for the purposes of 'hate crimes'. What they call 'hate speech' carries an exemption if you say it's part of your 'religion'. If your ideology doesn't claim to be a religion, however, you don't get that exemption under the hate speech laws. That seems pretty incongruous to me, to put it mildly, especially given the obvious other-ism in all the Abrahamic ideologies.
Anyway - that was a bit of an intended digression - I'll tackle the Norman/British Establishment thing separately otherwise this will be a TLDR-possibility.
Ah - I should probably clarify what I'm on about here actually!
This is kind of what I'm getting at when I try and make a distinction between 'racial' identity and 'cultural' identity. 'Cultural' can of course encompass an 'attitude' and an 'ideology' even. This is certainly arguable if we're talking about Jews - if we define a Jew as someone who practises 'Jewism'. i.e. Judaism - this is a linguistic thing with regards to English, in which the person 'Jew' doesn't have the 'd' in it. In German, ironically, it's much clearer as the word for the person 'Jude' obviously relates to the -ism 'Jude-ism' (Judaismus is the actual German). This may of course explain the historical German attitude towards Jews (i.e. 'followers of Judaism') - given the critique of monotheism/Judaeo-Christianity inherent in 'the Enlightenment', which was very prominent in Germany of course, it kind of explains the development of anti-Judaism in Germany. In that sense, it also suggests that the definition is not based on 'ethnicity' or 'race', but on 'ideology'. And naturally it's perfectly acceptable to criticise an ideology, because it's not perceived as 'personal' - although, foolishly imho, an ideology that is dressed up to look like a 'religion' is suddenly granted the status of a 'protected characteristic' for the purposes of 'hate crimes'. What they call 'hate speech' carries an exemption if you say it's part of your 'religion'. If your ideology doesn't claim to be a religion, however, you don't get that exemption under the hate speech laws. That seems pretty incongruous to me, to put it mildly, especially given the obvious other-ism in all the Abrahamic ideologies.
Anyway - that was a bit of an intended digression - I'll tackle the Norman/British Establishment thing separately otherwise this will be a TLDR-possibility.