[Captain Bunny]

An american is ignorant enough to class britian as england. what happened to rep of ireland, ireland, scotland and wales?

hake:

[Sicilian_Summers]

Not a bad post...



[quote="Captain Bunny":93f54]An american is ignorant enough to class britian as england. what happened to rep of ireland, ireland, scotland and wales?

hake:[/quote:93f54]

That's not just Americans, unfortunately.

However, are English people technically British? If I recall correctly, the word "Briton" comes from the CELTIC dialect "Brythonic", and the word "England" is derrived from "Angle-land"; the land of the Angles, Germanic Barbarians.

So therefore, would English people even technically be British?

[pest]

Captain Bunny - have never gotten a firm grasp on that. Could you clarify the terms for us. All of those countries(??) are part of the United Kindom? Which is the same as England? I really dunno. Help us out?

[LoneGunner87]

I AM AMERICAN. But sometimes im not. biggrin:

[Milla]

Alot of people here fucking sicken me, dont like the thread, dont post, i dont understand it. hake:

[Captain Bunny]

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:

[Innoxx]

[quote="Capt. John Miller":e7103]Alot of people here fucking sicken me, dont like the thread, dont post, i dont understand it. hake:[/quote:e7103]

*pets Milla* S'okay.

[Ydiss]

[quote="Captain Bunny":b6c80]An american is ignorant enough to class britian as england. what happened to rep of ireland, ireland, scotland and wales?

hake:[/quote:b6c80]

The Republic of Ireland, or Eire, has nothing to do with Great Britain.

[Ydiss]

Oh, and on topic... American is a hot-pot of racial mix, although so is a lot of countries these days.

I don't see anything wrong with that post at all Arkan, one of your better ones.

Pity you didn't actually write it, though biggrin:

[Captain Bunny]

[quote=Ydiss]

Originally Posted by "Captain Bunny":7fec9

An american is ignorant enough to class britian as england. what happened to rep of ireland, ireland, scotland and wales?

hake:

The Republic of Ireland, or Eire, has nothing to do with Great Britain.[/quote:7fec9]

read my other post numpty.

[Ydiss]

I did, but I stll said it because I wondered why you put it in there in the first place.

To elaborate, it seems to me that you're right about each nation of the UK seeming to rather be called by their nationality than being called British, but the way I get it is most Scottish and Welsh people feel this way, moreso than the English.

That's another can of stereotypical worms, though.

[Oddball]

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