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Captain Bunny · 04-07-2003, 05:29 PM

Ok, well without being picky as to what exactly a briton is, even though the origins of their names bears no significance, as that would be like saying are todays americans really american - because they all came from other countries other than the natives.

As it stands today, Great Britain consists of Scotland england northern ireland and wales.
Collectively we are all British. thats what we have on our passports, we arnt allowed to put scottish, welsh, irish or english.
The republic of ireland is not part of britain - i dont know a great deal on the history of that, gerard is the man to ask here, as i would probably get something wrong.

Back in the olden days when "Britain" invaded america, the British were on a vast majority, English soldiers. Who conquered a lot of contries in the world to expand the empire. The British Empire, or United Kingdom. Which used to consist of Canada, india, most of south africa, australia, Falkland Islands, and a couple of little islands scattered arounf the pacific.

These days, like all empires eventuality, the United Kingdom (uk) is not much of a kingdom anymore.
You might remember Hong Kong recently being returned to china a few year ago, big celebration with the queen or some shit like that.

London is the capital of England and Great Britian, england is not the capital of britian as ive heard from some people.
Probably the most pathetic one ive heard was someone who thought scotland was a county (thats county not country) in england. Whats worse is she said it on national TV on Blind Date.

There was artical in the papers the other day from an american about troops in iraq, saying it wasnt right to call the US troops yanks, as it was as bad as them calling the british forces the english. Its ignorant and insulting to both. so please all, have a bit of respect, thats all i ask freak:

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Captain Bunny is Offline Senior Member Posts: 2,106 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Fife, Scotland	04-07-2003, 05:29 PM Ok, well without being picky as to what exactly a briton is, even though the origins of their names bears no significance, as that would be like saying are todays americans really american - because they all came from other countries other than the natives. As it stands today, Great Britain consists of Scotland england northern ireland and wales. Collectively we are all British. thats what we have on our passports, we arnt allowed to put scottish, welsh, irish or english. The republic of ireland is not part of britain - i dont know a great deal on the history of that, gerard is the man to ask here, as i would probably get something wrong. Back in the olden days when "Britain" invaded america, the British were on a vast majority, English soldiers. Who conquered a lot of contries in the world to expand the empire. The British Empire, or United Kingdom. Which used to consist of Canada, india, most of south africa, australia, Falkland Islands, and a couple of little islands scattered arounf the pacific. These days, like all empires eventuality, the United Kingdom (uk) is not much of a kingdom anymore. You might remember Hong Kong recently being returned to china a few year ago, big celebration with the queen or some shit like that. London is the capital of England and Great Britian, england is not the capital of britian as ive heard from some people. Probably the most pathetic one ive heard was someone who thought scotland was a county (thats county not country) in england. Whats worse is she said it on national TV on Blind Date. There was artical in the papers the other day from an american about troops in iraq, saying it wasnt right to call the US troops yanks, as it was as bad as them calling the british forces the english. Its ignorant and insulting to both. so please all, have a bit of respect, thats all i ask freak: