Are you British, Australian, American, or Other?

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19 May 2009, 2:55 pm

I just wanted to see if the majority of people on this forum were British, Australian, or American.

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19 May 2009, 3:00 pm

I'm British, from England.

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19 May 2009, 3:00 pm

I always feel a wee bit of pressure when it comes to answering the question, "Which country are you from?"

This is because, if I say I am British, I imagine a bunch of Scottish people saying, "Oh? You consider yourself more British than Scottish (traitor)?" and if I say Scottish I imagine a bunch of English people saying, "Oh? You're more loyal to Scotland than to Britain (traitor)?"

Of course, I didn't have that trouble here because the only applicable option was "British."

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19 May 2009, 3:06 pm

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Yeah, sorry for grouping all you Brits together, it's just easier that way than saying, English, Scottish, Welsh, N. Irish. N. Irish isn't part of Great Britain but it is part of the U.K. so I would say they are British. The U.K. is confusing.

It's about 4pm on the east coast of the U.S. right now, 12 pm on the west coast. 9pm in London. 6am in Sydney.

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19 May 2009, 3:14 pm

LOL @"other"

I'd call myself a "n/a" in terms of nationality as I don't care about it and don't feel any emotional connection to my "nation". but I guess I can vote "other" :wink:

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19 May 2009, 3:18 pm

Master_Shake wrote:

Oh, I wasn't complaining. I was just talking about something else that was vaguely relevant. If anything, I was glad it was all grouped as one entity.

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19 May 2009, 3:29 pm

Master_Shake wrote:

Somewhere between 23 to 63 percent of people in Northern Ireland disagree with you
(http://www.ark.ac.uk/nilt/2006/Politica ... NATID.html)

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19 May 2009, 3:40 pm

American from Minnesota

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19 May 2009, 3:44 pm

raggle-taggle-gypsy wrote:

Master_Shake wrote:

Somewhere between 23 to 63 percent of people in Northern Ireland disagree with you
(http://www.ark.ac.uk/nilt/2006/Politica ... NATID.html)

It looks like the N. Irish are moving away from identifying with the U.K. 50% of individuals over 65 consider themselves unionist. Only 22% of 18-24 year-old's do. Unionism shows a steady downward trend from older individuals to young individuals, who are the least Unionist. Older people seem to have stronger views, the same amount of older people consider them to be Nationalists as young people. However, younger people are less likely to have a strong view one way or the other, and tend to consider themselves neither.

It's interesting to note that all N. Irish Catholics in the survey consider themselves Nationalist or Neither, while most all Protestants consider themselves Unionist.

So it seems only Catholics don't like to associate with the U.K.

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19 May 2009, 3:47 pm

American from Oregon

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19 May 2009, 3:52 pm

McTell wrote:

I personally don't like the term british. I actully have Scottish and Welsh heritage, but still consider myself English.

Master_Shake wrote:

For someone who thinks the UK is confusing, you have an accurate knowledge of British Geography. You missed my timezone though

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19 May 2009, 4:20 pm

I'm from Denmark and I love this country. So it's other for me.

I would like to have seen options like Europa, Asia and Africa.
But that's just me. Some times I think that most Americans see the world as "Us and the other ones".

Edit: What I mean, is that this is a World forum, as i hope the vote will show.

Many people, who doesn't have English as the main language are here.

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19 May 2009, 5:04 pm

I'm "American", although I don't really feel like one.

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