Re: What is a Celt?

Iain MacGiolla-odhar wrote:
Alfred C. Shine wrote:
Can someone define for me, please, a Celt? I've heard and read so
many differing and conflicting definitions.

A Celt is anyone who takes Celtic culture as their own. Typically, it is someone who:

1. Uses or is learning a Celtic language.
2. Takes part in Celtic cultural events such as (as a small sample) choirs, festivals, music, dancing, sporting events.
3. Feels part of the Celtic world.

It is not based on genetic descent, especially since the genome of Celts is already a mixture of people with a Basque base plus Anatolian/Adriatic Indo-European, Berber, Egyptian and Semitic influences.
4. Has family connections to other Celtic people.
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