The Border Agency didn't appreciate it when I tried to put this as my nationality... [video=youtube;gEmJ-VWPDM4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEmJ-VWPDM4[/video]
If you were live in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, you are British. I'm English too, but it's not my nationality. 1-0 to the British! The short Taffy one scored.
Reminds me of the African American thing! If you are born in USA you are American.If you were born in Africa you are African unless you emigrate to the USA.THEN you are American! I was born in Wood Green.I'm a bloody Englishman not a bloody Brit! Where's my Cross of St George!!!!?
I was born in England of English parents, so I'm English. Should someone from Jamaica be only referred to as West Indian? Thin ice mate, I'd get off.
The Palestinian and possibly fictional killer of mythical lizards? It's over here, on an Italian side's away kit: please log in to view this image Cornish, English, British, European? I'm not bothered if someone chooses any of those to define their nationality.
What thin ice? Legally our nationality is British, as Inda says. The West Indies is a grouping of individual sovereign states and to describe a Jamaican as having a West Indian nationality would be as wrong as saying my nationality is English. They would be just as incorrect. It's only a matter of fact, no subtext that I can pick up.
When I'm in the US and, frankly, bored I pretend to be from another country - mainly because you can see them try to remember anyone or anything they know about that country, and it's quite amusing. Especially the time I said I was Danish...
Cheers for the waste of time geography lesson. The thin ice is this descending 'possibly' into a race issue. I'm English and that is my nationality as far as I'm concerned, not Scottish, not Welsh...English, being British is for passport reasons...and I haven't got one! but when I was abroad and sent letters home they had England in the address, not Britain, Royal Mail is a service to the Crown, and she is known as the Queen of England. The definition of nation is also 'country', so England it is. So once again, I'm English, you my friend can call yourself what you like.
Team GB Team Great Britain British athletes compete for Great Britain There is no English, Welsh, or Scottish in these games. They are not represented. It should have said British under Joe Allen's name, and every other player's name. A race issue? C'mon, there's no race card to play here. If you really want to play that card, you'll find the vast majority of non-whites class themselves as British, not English. Why might that be? Listen, you're not alone in classing your nationality as English; it's a more modern way of thinking. Still wrong though. Stick that information on medical records, CVs and suchlike, and you're doing yourself no favours.
