Normal for Norfolk & ignores their ancestoral history. East Anglians have a high % of Western European genes. They traded with Europe. Dutch/Flemish was spoken!

Absolutely, in fact Norwich was well known for welcoming "Strangers", mainly Dutch and Flemish fleeing religious persecution. We have a Stranger's Hall still (although as an outsider I probably shouldn't use the word "we").

Not Norwich, but Norfolk here. Overheard a women who had been listening to my conversation with my husband telling her daughter (?) that we were French. Both of us from London 🤷.

Brilliant.

I sat beside a young guy on the tube once, he asked me where I was from: “Scotland” “Is that up beside Yorkshire?” “Yeah, just a bit further on” Yes I know, the shocking part of this anecdote is people talking on the tube.

That's lovely.

It was the suspicious/slightly scornful tone in her voice when she said it. I felt like the Hartlepool monkey.

She would have been afeared 🙃.

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Having worked there for a few years, can concur. But they are however consistent in that - you can be white and English from a neighbouring county and you’re just as foreign as someone with a different skin tone, from the other side of the globe! 🙂

We weren’t in Norwich tho, or anywhere near East Anglia, that’s why I thought it was a really odd thing to say. 😂

Ha! Even better.