"England" is a word that I don't see used very much anymore. Great Britain is what your country is always referred to nowadays. So I was wondering if you consider yourself English or British or just don't care.
shareIt might well say British on my passport, but my heart is pure Scottish.
shareI see myself as English and I always have. I live in England, therefore I am English. I have a couple of friends who are Scottish and they hate it when I call them British. They tell me they're Scottish. So fair enough.
However, I do hate it when some people, not everyone, but a select few, refer to the English as 'Scottish, Irish, Welsh and British. Um...try again.
'What I calls, enterprise. Popping pussies into pies!'
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I'm first and foremost British. I love the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, I love the countries individually but recognise that we are all British. People are the same, only the accents change. There's good and bad everywhere.
The only time being English is an issue is when I'm in Scotland or Wales, or if say, England are playing football.
One thing I hate is being called 'European'. I'm not and never will be. My genes have more in common with Australians and Americans than Europeans.
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I was thinking more along the lines of those that are of British and Irish descent.
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I'd consider myself both English and British, if I were to concern myself with such labels. I only do so on very rare occasions when I'm asked irrelevant questions like this.
shareMy 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'.
shareInteresting 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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