Poll: Are you British or English/Scottish etc?

[MikeOfThunder]

Actually i had this debate with my friends... they all see themselves as English, whilst i will always refer to myself as British..

 

[NoNameMcgee]

I'm English and just say I'm British because I prefer the sound of the word. and I live in Australia now so I get asked a lot (people here love accents)

 

[Amnestic]

im american. wanna fight?

The last time England was invaded was 700 years before you declared independence. We had the largest Empire the world has ever seen. You're currently embroiled in two wars (admittedly one of which you're pulling out of, though you're moving all those troops to the other one) and your economy is in the tank.

So no, not really. It's better if we keep the U.S. as an economic friend. Losing them does nothing good for Britain or the EU. Our comedians would go out of business.

 

[Hotshots]

Your Catholic I'm guessing, my Cousin-in-law is from there in a place called the "Shankill road" in Belfast.Apparently hate catholics as does most of Belfast from what I'm told.
Being Italian doesn't help me with that sort of thing.

Belfast is kind of split down the middle between catholics and protestant, resulting in some quite horriffic violence.

OP: I'm an Irish nationalist, so when people refer to Ireland as part of England even after I've corrected them I tend to get very violent. Granted, that was just once, but still.

Ah yes,my cousin-in-law Billy has stuff like UDA and taigs out tattoos,i have no idea what it means but he hates me (for being Italian i guess).
What does that stuff mean? What is the UDA a branch of the IRA, and "taigs out" WTF does that mean?

 

[Valksy]

I would usually refer to myself as a Brit. While I accept that history in these isles has been ugly in the past, personally I regard all of us - Welsh, English, Scottish and Irish as kindred. We have a lot of shared history and traditions.

If we are broken apart for sports - World Cup for example - I will cheer for England. I wish we were a British team because it would be a hell of a lot better than we have at the moment

 

[Andalusa]

If someone asked, I'd say English, but I'd classify myself as British and English.

 

[Valksy]

What is the UDA a branch of the IRA, and "taigs out" WTF does that mean?

I believe that the phase "taigs out" is anti-Catholic.

The UDA are the faction opposed to the IRA.

 

[mayney93]

does it really matter?

 

[cyce3]

My sister always makes the mistake of saying england when she means britain, which is now a problem as she goes to uni in scotland so she has to be very careful!

 

[cyce3]

British? No. English? No. Yorkshire? YES. Independence for Yorkshire, pudding for all!

Seconded. Yorkshire FTW!

Yes, yes indeed! allthough specifically North Yorkshire we don't want to be associated with south or west! (allways wondered why there's no east, i suppose thats where the north Sea is)

 

[TheBlank]

Australian!!!

 

[Hotshots]

What is the UDA a branch of the IRA, and "taigs out" WTF does that mean?

I believe that the phase "taigs out" is anti-Catholic.

The UDA are the faction opposed to the IRA.

Grazie,that explains a lot.

 

[Boneasse]

Danish, here.

 

[Mrsoupcup]

I'm Russian/Irish/Scottish/European/Canadian/Mutt.

 

[Mr Wednesday]

And as to the great feats of our past. Well, I'd take them with a pinch of salt. It wasn't Germany who invented the modern concentration camp.

No it was the spanish in Cuba in 1895 who invented the concentration camp, Britain stole the idea off them to help "humanely" cope with the influx of refugees in the Boer war, though through bad conditions and a lack of food this led to the deaths of 20,000 innocents, the germans were the first to make their captives work to death.

Well I live and learn.

 

[Cmwissy]

Canadians out there - how pissed off are you when someone calls you American?

That's how I feel when someone calls me British.

I'm a bloody Scotsman; there are 3 countries in mainland Britain; Generalizing my nationality to 3 countries is like calling an Italian French.

 

[Galletea]

I consider myself to be English as I don't feel any connection with the other parts of the nation. Possibly because I've never been there and met few people from those places.

 

[SupaMechaDeathChrist]

I'm 40% Irish, but i like to be referred to as Italian because i'm 60 % Italian

 

[Aesir23]

Canadians out there - how pissed off are you when someone calls you American?

I don't get so mad as to foam at the mouth, but I know I definitely get pissed off if someone calls me an American. (Well, I do have dual citizenship but that's not the point! I was born and raised in Canada!)

Op: Anyway, I'm basically a British/Irish/German/Scandinavian mix as far as bloodline goes. (There might be a small amount of French but I'm not sure)

But I would probably use the word English unless I was actually IN Britain.

 

[Lexodus]

Scottish - we don't really like being associated as British

The feeling's entirely mutual