Koumei wrote:You could look at it historically: let's pretend this is a real INVASION, like every other invasion of Britain (go ahead and count them). Now look at what happened when anyone else invaded and occupied: they became British.
There is a joke there somewhere, although I'm not sure where.
I mean wasn't the Kindgom originally the Anglo-Saxon "England" until it was invaded by the French speaking Normans? It then went on to crush the nearby Whales where the last of the Anglo-Saxon rullers remained. It took a hundred years later (which in turn is called the hundred year war) for the Anglo Saxons to even attempt to have a backbone of rebellion against the Norman Lords.
During the Hundred Years War an English identity began to develop in place of the previous division between the Norman Lords and their Anglo-Saxon subjects, in consequence of sustained hostility to the increasingly nationalist French, whose kings and other leaders (notably the charismatic Joan of Arc) used a developing sense of French identity to help draw people to their cause. The Anglo-Normans became separate from their cousins, who held lands mainly in France, who mocked the former for their archaic and bastardised spoken French. English also became the language of the law courts during this period.
I think the opposite happened. The land and even the languuage of Chaucer was, alas, no more.
But that is not the point. Here we have two very similiar cultures, with minor differences in language, sharing more or less the same religion. (Note this is well before the Reformation.)
What if you have a completely different culture and a completely different religion? One that not only does not want anything to do with the culture and religion that is currently in place, but who are determined by divine will to impose their own viewpoints on others? They look upon you as unworthy infidels doomed to eternal damnation?
