Let me clarify. In 1066 William the conquerer, well, conquered England and Norman nobles replaced the Saxon nobles ruling the country. When did the English peasants, Europe at large, and the nobles themselves stop thinking of themselves as as occupying foreigners but rather homegrown rulers? Did it take only a single generation? The Hundred Years' War?
Why were the Normans able to successfully integrate? As a counter example, the Mongolian ming dynasty ruled China for centuries and adopted many Chinese customs, but was still seen as foreign and thrown out. Why did the same not happen in Britain?
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As a counter example, the Mongolian ming dynasty ruled China for centuries and adopted many Chinese customs, but was still seen as foreign and thrown out. Why did the same not happen in Britain?
Those situations are different in that before the Mongol Yuan dynasty took over, China was ruled for three centuries by the Song.
England had only had kings for a century before the Norman conquest and it wasn't a stable rule, they went back and forth between Saxon and Danish dynasties that only ruled for a couple years (or two decades at the most) at a time.
So when the Normans came the English didn't have a long established status quo to fall back on. As time went on, England had had Norman rule longer than they had had unified 'English' rule.