FTAO BRITISH PEOPLE

[Pawf]

I'll give you some short, snappy written "soundbites" ;P

1) What does being British mean to you?
It means tea, humour and red, white and blue
2) Are you proud to be British?
Yes, but I'm more proud to be English.
3) How does being British make you feel?
Spectacular, there is no greater nation on the planet.

[Technologic]

1) Moaning about everything but also knowing that for some reason everyone loves the British.

2) Hell yes

3) Most excellent indeed

[Swearwolf]

im not british im english

[Technologic]

im not british im english

You live in Great Britain... ann the British Isles therefore you are British....

[Pawf]

im not british im english

You live in Great Britain... ann the British Isles therefore you are British....

Yes, you're Europeans.

[-:Undertaker:-]

You live in Great Britain... ann the British Isles therefore you are British....

Not really, it depends what you class as a nation. Many nowadays (as the Union is dying) only class themselves as Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish or English purely because they feel no attachment to Great Britain anymore as its been undermined by its own politicians with devolution as a prime example of this. Smiffla's point is also valid, although only a tiny percentage of Europeans (in the geographical sense) will call themselves European (in the nation-state sense) as they are usually Euro-federalists who are a small and insignifigant minority.

So when Swearwolf says hes English and not British or European then that can be taken as true indeed, however if your arguing over 'well he lives in a region called the British Isles which is located in Europe so he is British and European' then thats also true. Usually though, whenever we refer to 'I am x' it refers to our nation state and not a geographical part of the world just as you hardly ever hear (if you ever do) Mexicans, Americans and Canadians refer to themselves as North Americans or just as you never hear British, Russians, Geogrians, Ukrainians, Chinese or Indians refer to themselves as Eurasian. In the geographical sense they are, but thats it.

[Swearwolf]

I live in England therefore I am English

[Pawf]

Smiffla's point is also valid, although only a tiny percentage of Europeans (in the geographical sense) will call themselves European (in the nation-state sense) as they are usually Euro-federalists who are a small and insignifigant minority.

As soon as I saw your avatar I knew you would reference my point

[GommeInc]

I'm experiencing a lot of de ja vu with this thread, I think someone has asked this before many many years ago

1. Being British means being born to or becoming a part of a country with a rich heritage and a good understanding of diversity.

2. I am when I look at the people who make and shape the country, but no so much the ones who abuse it or others and give us a poor name.

3. Pretty good. We've got a good healthcare centre and public services. Everything obviously can improve but I wouldn't say we're suffering.

[Robi]

Yeah so, I have to do an assesment in Citizenship and my 3 questions I need to answer are:

1) What does being British mean to you?
2) Are you proud to be British?
3) How does being British make you feel?

Where as I realise my opninion may be different, I'm struggling for ideas.

CAN ANYONE ANSWER THESE FOR ME TO PINCH IDEAS

1) Nothing really, it's just where I was born really.

2) Nope, I call myself half Spanish because I used to live there. I can't stand England and can't wait to move out of the country once I get an established qualification!

3) Sometimes proud, only when I see like football events etc doing the national anthem. Apart from that, it just makes me sad.