Poll: Your Nationality

[weescott]

The reason isn't strange:

Wales was conquered by England in the 13th century, thus removing Welsh as a nationality. Can't be a nationality if it isn't a nation.

Scotland unified with England in 1707 for financial reasons (England was a rich empire, Scotland was a poor little country with a ruined economy and needed bailing out big-time), thus removing English and Scottish as nationalities for the same reason.

However...

For the same reason, British isn't officially a nationality either. Britain isn't a nation because it's part of the UK (which is a nation). Yet 'British' is offically accepted as a nationality.

Applying the same standards would either mean that English, Scottish and Welsh are official nationalities or that British isn't either.

Not all strictly true. Yes Wales was over run by the English granted. Scotland never had a ruined economy, Scotland might not have had much of an economy to start with but the act of Union was made to give Scotland an equal playing field on the European stage. Under the act of Union the Scots have a right to a Scottish passport. The act of Union is about equality between all home nations.

 

[4T5]

I'm English because i was born in England.

 

[rz30]

"Scotch" all the way. I am British as well, actually i usually tick British on most forms.

 

[Efour]

British (other?)

 

[Sankari]

Dual nationality: Australian/British.

Born and bred in Australia; granted British citizenship on the basis of ancestry (my father and maternal grandfather were both English).

 

[Mark A]

English, born to English parents.

 

[timmothy]

south african,, hoping to become a british national in two years

 

[eddiemcgarrigle]

Why not Celt, Pict, Saxon, Roman etc?

Well put my friend, 100% Celt in nationality and sport.

The fact is English and British are commonly mistaken as being one and the same which is derogatory to the other home nations.

This is somthing that annoys me on my frequent travels to the USA. On the wiaver card, country of origin can only be UK or Great Britain. I've tried asking US customs why I can't put Scottish but all I get is a blank look. One was even idiot enough to say that country of origin relates to where you live and not another 'foreign' country where you where born. My lecture on the different home nations fell on deaf ears. Not surprising though as most Yanks are pretty useless when it comes to geography outwith their own borders.

Scotland was a poor little country with a ruined economy and needed bailing out big-time), thus removing English and Scottish as nationalities for the same reason.

Go learn about the Darian Project and the English blockade of food and medical supplies. While you are at it, read about the Act of Union and how the Scottish Parliament was conned into it and the public reaction to it.

"a coward few,
for hireling traitors' wages ...
we're bought and sold for English gold -
such a parcel of rogues in a nation!"

 

[Messiah Khan]

English. Brought up in Norway. Hope to emigrate to Canada in the not too distant future, and may end up with dual UK/Canadian citizenship.

 

[Vinnylupo]

Dual nationality - Italian/English.

 

[Judge Mental]

Scots.

 

[qqg3]

Yorkshire.





It should be a nation.

 

[syke]

English/New Zealand - born in England, grown up in both England/New Zealand.

 

[Davies_M]

Taff

 

[Col_M]

English

 

[mnc fear]

Scottish- and Proud of it

 

[Samueltastic]

Cornish

 

[Angilion]

Yorkshire.





It should be a nation.

It was sort of one for about a century about a thousand years ago when the city was known as Jorvik. Some Scandanavians went viking, conquered the area and settled there. Not the same area as modern Yorkshire, but not too far off. So you've got some background for claiming independence...like most of the country.

 

[Phatjayunoi]

Nationality: British, as I was born in England.

Ethnicity: Chinese.

 

[CliffyBiro]

Northern Irish.