Excuse me...what is your nationality please?
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its interesting how much people state what roots/heritage/ethnicity they are, rather than their actual nationality.
Sasaferrato
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JTG said:
Born in the British Isles.
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I'm adopted, my mother's family came from southern irelnd, my father' from london. My birth mother was raised in portadown, my birth father I have no idea about at all.
As ofr my kids, add the fact that their father is half a mix of scottish/irish/welsh and half russian/chechen(we think) jewish.
i suppose i'm british, probably english.
I'm adopted, my mother's family came from southern irelnd, my father' from london. My birth mother was raised in portadown, my birth father I have no idea about at all.
As ofr my kids, add the fact that their father is half a mix of scottish/irish/welsh and half russian/chechen(we think) jewish.
i suppose i'm british, probably english.
Sweaty Betty
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Iemanja said:
thanx 4 confirmation!!!
The last fucken straw really.
Graymalkin
Ironclad Activist
Canadian by birth
Father is 3/4 french canadian (Rochleau) and 1/4 aboriginal (sioux I believe).
Mother is adopted, so blood lineage is unknown but adoptive lineage is english (coulter) and Irish (Morton/Holtorf). The mortons are from Tinahely and apparently own a very old pub there.
Father is 3/4 french canadian (Rochleau) and 1/4 aboriginal (sioux I believe).
Mother is adopted, so blood lineage is unknown but adoptive lineage is english (coulter) and Irish (Morton/Holtorf). The mortons are from Tinahely and apparently own a very old pub there.
XerxesVargas
formerly MrMalcontent
I'm British. Born in Canada, lived in the US for 9 years, Scotland for 6, and england for 16. I, and my sisiter, are the only members of our family to have been born outside Scotland. So my nationality is a bit vague. As a result I tak British.
Culturally I am Scottsh and the place i consider to be "home" is in Scotland. however, i have an English accent and wasn't born in Scotland so when I was a child and used to say I was scottish, there was alway somebody about to point out that i wasnt. So over a period of years, being attacked endlessly by Scottish people for claiming I was Scottish I was finally cured of that. I now see myself a british.
It amazes me how narrow a definition most people have of nationality and the vermence with which they will defend thier idea and reject anything that falls outside of it.
Culturally I am Scottsh and the place i consider to be "home" is in Scotland. however, i have an English accent and wasn't born in Scotland so when I was a child and used to say I was scottish, there was alway somebody about to point out that i wasnt. So over a period of years, being attacked endlessly by Scottish people for claiming I was Scottish I was finally cured of that. I now see myself a british.
It amazes me how narrow a definition most people have of nationality and the vermence with which they will defend thier idea and reject anything that falls outside of it.
George & Bill
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ernestolynch said:A more polite poll then.
Those aren't nationalities you fucking squirelcock. Nationality is an administrative term, so a Welsh person who doesn't accept the UK (you), or an English person with no 'national identity' (me) are nonetheless of British nationality.
Sasaferrato said:Born in the British Isles.
I think not. You do appreciate that the British Isles include the island of Ireland?
DrRingDing
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George & Bill
semiotically superfluous
I'm an austro-yiddish pigmy.
NickLarmour
O Espião
Im MOSTLY English but for some obscure reason I identify more with my Irish blood. 2 out of my 4 grandparents were English and 1 had to give up her US citizenship so I guess 3 out of 4 were by the 1950's.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Mother and sister.
slowjoe said:
bollox is it an adminstrative term, it conjouers up images of history, language, myth of origin, common myths & memories (real or imagined), symbols, flags,an historic territory, a common past and a project for a common future
state is an adminstrative term, but definately not nation
and there's no such thing as a british nation, british state yes, but not british nation
George & Bill
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oisleep said:
it conjoures up images of rubber ducks if you're fucking loopy enough. since neither you nor i have ever been given any choice as to the borders or function of whatever nation we might imagine ourselves to inhabit, i suggest that both nation and nationality are administrative concepts.
states are adminstritave, i believe nations are to an extent constructed but based on the things i mentioned above
so czechs & slovakians didn't have a choice when they broke from their former nation, croats, bosnians & serbians didn't have a choice, scots & welsh didn't have a choice as they devolve from the britain, latvia, lithunia & estionia didn't have a choice, eriteria didn't have a choice, catalans and basques are not choosing, Ireland didn't have a choice, pakistan and bangladesh didn't have a choice, Poles didn't have a choice when they were partioned and wiped off the map for 100 years, but still emerged as a nation
I think they do
so czechs & slovakians didn't have a choice when they broke from their former nation, croats, bosnians & serbians didn't have a choice, scots & welsh didn't have a choice as they devolve from the britain, latvia, lithunia & estionia didn't have a choice, eriteria didn't have a choice, catalans and basques are not choosing, Ireland didn't have a choice, pakistan and bangladesh didn't have a choice, Poles didn't have a choice when they were partioned and wiped off the map for 100 years, but still emerged as a nation
I think they do
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