Poll: Your Nationality

[semi-pro waster]

The latter point is fortunate, as I would judge you for saying you are Scottish first. I am British first. The rest is irrelevant

(please don't take offence)

No offence taken. You are, of course, welcome to judge me for normally saying I'm Scottish before I'd say I'm British but I don't know if the judgement would reveal anything particularly useful about me.

The reason I say that nationality isn't a good measure to judge by is that it doesn't tell you much about the person unless you believe stereotypes are a good guideline - I've got some great mates from a number of nations but that doesn't meant that I'll get on with other people from the same nation so I tend to discount it except when I'm taking the mickey out of my mates.

 

[rubin1961]

British thourgh bread all the wayyyyy

 

[Biohazard]

No offence taken. You are, of course, welcome to judge me for normally saying I'm Scottish before I'd say I'm British but I don't know if the judgement would reveal anything particularly useful about me.

Nothing really at all, we are both the same in that we say Scottish first but I bet you and I are very different people.

As we have seen in many discussions on here, politically as well.

Stereotyping like such is always going to be 'vague'.

 

[beefkeef]

British here

 

[Things change I've changed]

British here with a dash of polish

 

[ShakenNstirred]

im English, i put that and england on forms even if they want you to put united kingdom etc

 

[Biohazard]

im English, i put that and england on forms even if they want you to put united kingdom etc

Mental!

 

[meghatronic]

im English, i put that and england on forms even if they want you to put united kingdom etc

Funny thing being your sentence has quite a few English errors.

 

[meghatronic]

No offence taken. You are, of course, welcome to judge me for normally saying I'm Scottish before I'd say I'm British but I don't know if the judgement would reveal anything particularly useful about me.

I think you're right in that it tends towards stereotypes

 

[regulus]

im English, i put that and england on forms even if they want you to put united kingdom etc

thts rite m8, were enligish, nt bldy brritshh!!!!!! etc

 

[Randell Floyd]

Funny thing being your sentence has quite a few English errors.

.....and?.......

 

[meghatronic]

.....and?.......

Well I find it funny, given you're so vocal about being English.

I'm not sure I completely disagree with you by the way, but I certainly don't agree.

 

[Sildeh]

English

 

[Randell Floyd]

Well I find it funny, given you're so vocalabout being English.

I'm not sure I completely disagree with you by the way, but I certainly don't agree.

Wasn't me, but still I can't see how grammar and writing ability is in any way linked to someone's nationality or being proud to be English.

Does a dyslexic have a lesser claim for being proud of their country than a grammar nazi?

Not having a go, but find it a bit difficult in finding a good justification for the statement.

 

[Skidder]

Part welsh, part english, part tinker, part *****

 

[Freefaller]

I have more than 1

 

[chris74]

Scottish.

Tartan Army member who is British. Go figure lol

Would Love to live in France or Italy to get away from Britain but marriage and 4 children have hampered that dream for now

 

[Taziir]

never heard that , any sources?

Sorry to take so long to respond to this, wish I could PM as discussion has moved on.

Looks like I was half remembering the idea but was way off on the actual links.

One example is in this paper by Ariel Shisha-Halevy he studies the linguistic links between Celtic and Hebrew (!). The idea that Celtic as a language has it's roots in Hebrew has been around since Medieval times and study began with John Morris-Jones in 1900.

 

[aceface57]

Welsh father and Scottish mother, a good mix!

 

[Souljacker]

British when I win, Scottish when I lose...