Are you British?

[Lulu]

I've been having an argument with some random (and stupid) Americans, who think it is perfectly acceptable to refer to English people as 'British', but think it is insensitive to use the word in reference to the Scots or Welsh.

The point I have unsuccessfully been trying to put across to them is there are 3 separate countries making up Britain, and to refer to any individual from these countries as 'British' can be insulting. I was born in England, to English parents, therefore I am English. I am sure that my Irish and Welsh great-grandparents were fiercely proud of their countries, too.

I just feel like they're sticking two fingers up at me and telling me that my country doesn't matter. But then, maybe I'm just being sensitive.

[yen_powell]

Call them Hawaiians.
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[KevTM]

Thing that I notice in the press whenever say a sporting event is on.

If an Englishman is doing well he's English
If an Englishman is doing badly he's British
If a Scotsman is doing well he's British
If a Scotsman is doing badly he's Scottish

If I'm doing good I guess you could say I'm British, Brit(ish)..

[jack_zxr400]

Call them Canadian
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[Skudd]

I'm English and they are colonials
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[Lulu]

[Fisty]

[Lulu]

Double post.

(keep doing that...)

[The Shaggy D.A.]

Quote Stripes back at them :-

[Lulu]

Shaggy DA, please have some karma.

[MarJay]

[Flip]

I'm British. I can't stand patriotism.

[Ste]

Like most people in Britain...
I'm not British.

Okay, that's not true, I am British.

[wreckage]

English,
Nothing more and nothing less as I'm not Scottish or Welsh or Irish thus i must be an Englishman from the English part of Great Britain, And I'm certainly not fucking European,
But Al Murray might say we're all Brit (ish) and the Scottish are very (ish) Personallly I'll have the Geordie Whale song please,
And no I'm not a geordie..
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[Scouse]

I don't care.

[Howling TerrorOutOfOffice]

I don't care until it comes to England games

Pat
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[wreckage]

Rugby games!!!
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[Skudd]

It is the English who put the Great into Great Britain.
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[KevTM]

Sure that isn't 'grate' ?

[Flip]

[G]

[Ariel Badger]

I am a European of Russian extraction living in England and think of myself of all of these and also as a Britain but most of all as a Brummie. The children I work with collectively speak 37 home languages but are still British and Brummie.
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[colin1]

[Ariel Badger]

I lived in Zim during my 20s but I was born in Brum, my Great Grandmother was a Jewish Russian immigrant (Victim of the pogroms) I have never lived in Russia but visited many times and I speak the language.
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