National Identity Priority

I don't label people based on their place of birth which they have no control over. I am a member of the human race and love all the diverse cultures of the world.
 
Legally, i'm not British at all, but that's what I would answer if someone asked me.

I knew there was something odd about you. :p

I don't label people based on their place of birth which they have no control over. I am a member of the human race and love all the diverse cultures of the world.

Do you choose not to label them even if they would label themselves along such lines?
 
I don't label people based on their place of birth which they have no control over. I am a member of the human race and love all the diverse cultures of the world.

I agree. Down with date of births and eye colour too, people can't control those....
 


This. I've really never seen anything more stupid than national pride. OK, I've seen a lot of things more stupid than national pride, but it's a still very silly. I understand the idea of having pride in things you've done, but having pride in where you were born just because you were born there? Really? Why? If you were born in a Sudanese hovel, you'd be just as proud of that. That's bad enough, but to them leverage it, as some do, to imply or state that their bit of the world is de facto better than other parts of the world - just because they were born or live there. I've seen many reasons why one person might be better than another, but none of them involve where they were born (or their religion, or the colour of their skin for that matter).


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British -> South African, but then only if someone asks where I am from, I don't actually think about my national identity at any other time, I'm just a dude.
 
When i lived in Scotland it was

Scottish /

Now it's British > Scottish

However in a country which has it's own regional problems Belgian people tend to confuse nationality and mother tongue for foreigners. Which is weird since there is no Belgian language so they are French Dutch and German if I use their logic. ;)
 
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