Welcome to British.

[Housebroken Lunatic]

The conversation I deal with EVERY DAY:

"Oh, nice accent? Where are you from?"
"I'm British."
"Wow, that's cool. So . . . where in England are you from?"

. . . I'm Welsh.

Incidentally, people refer to me as 'talking British' regularly.

I really can't relate to that. I mean, I've never been to any of the british isles, nor do I meet many british people regularly. Heck, geography isn't even one of my stronger subjects yet STILL I managed to somehow pick up the fact that "Great Britain" is a composition of several different countries and that ENGLAND is ONE of those countries.

However most inhabitants speak ENGLISH with very specific accents depending on which country in britain you happen to be in.

Is this an "out of europe" phenomenon? That is, that non-europeans tend to get confused over it more than europeans do?