I'm first and foremost British. I love the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, I love the countries in
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isabellaconnor — 15 years ago(June 13, 2010 11:52 PM)
My father is of french, dutch and irish ancestry, but my mother is of english ancestry, and also because I was primarily raised in England, is see myself as British first. Being English doesn't seem to be a proper nationality anymore, for some reason. Even on the census that happens every ten years, last time, I do not think there was an option for 'White English', just 'White British'.
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PeterCotton — 15 years ago(July 06, 2010 03:11 PM)
Interesting subject. We have the same topic of discussion in the United States. I consider myself both a Texan and an American, but the former first. In the past, being a "Southerner" might have been a candidate as well, but that one has largely withered away. I also have heritage from every country in the British Isles, but those bands are from hundreds of years ago, far too removed for me to still consider myself, Irish, Scottish, English, or otherwise.
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thunderhawk1071 — 15 years ago(August 20, 2010 04:47 AM)
ask whites int north of england and they'll tell you english, but down south where everyone's posh and they're all modern and that they'll say british. they're hardly british though, they've very americanised in fact.
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jamest664 — 15 years ago(September 06, 2010 04:11 PM)
English definetly, dont want to be considered british and lumped in with the inbred welsh and retarded irish.
if you need proof of just how big a beep hole northern ireland is, just ask someone from there what nationality they are. They are willing to fight against being called northern irish- how bad does a place have to be for every single person born there to be so ashamed of it they will never admit what they are -
Ms_Belladonna — 15 years ago(September 06, 2010 05:11 PM)
Before I'm even a man I'm a Scot..but I am also very proud to be British.
I love my English brothers and sisters.but they are not very easy people to share an island with at times.especially every other Summer.
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carzy_6 — 15 years ago(September 06, 2010 06:06 PM)
I consider myself English but it's not like I'd go mental if someone called me British. It's more out of a love for England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales that I like to think of us as four separate nations, each with its own people who I respect and admire. It's one of the joys of being British that we can be other things too.
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NovocastrianUK — 15 years ago(February 18, 2011 10:51 AM)
"Before I'm even a man I'm a Scot..but I am also very proud to be British.
I love my English brothers and sisters.but they are not very easy people to share an island with at times.especially every other Summer.
Britain is more than the sum of her parts."
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Persephoned — 15 years ago(September 09, 2010 10:30 AM)
if you need proof of just how big a beep hole northern ireland is, just ask someone from there what nationality they are. They are willing to fight against being called northern irish- how bad does a place have to be for every single person born there to be so ashamed of it they will never admit what they are
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TasteForTheTheatrical — 15 years ago(September 07, 2010 02:54 AM)
English, and I get frustrated when I can only cross off 'British' on forms etc. I wasn't born in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, I was born in England!
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eckythump70 — 15 years ago(September 23, 2010 03:42 PM)
Depends on where I am at the time. I consider myself a yorkshireman if Im not in Yorkshire, English if Im in Scotland, British if Im in France, European if Im arguing with an American (heh), Western and finally Earthian (should we encounter any other x-ians). If we have a local kids footy match with the next village, Im a Killamarshan, not a Beightonian.