People who are born in the UK say they are english.?

Question

So if a dog is born in a stable does it make him a horse?

Answer 1

Typical racist moron demonstrating their ignorance. I was born in the UK and describe myself as Scottish! You do not even know the geography of that which you claim to represent. ****!

Answer 2

You can't compare a dog, stable and the UK in the same aspect. It depends on which part of the UK that the person is born before they give themselves a label (English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish)..

Answer 3

Holy cow, some people in here really really need to get laid.

Here's a quick Geography lesson:
British: from Great Britain which consists of England, Scotland and Wales ONLY.

UK: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland formed after some King and Government tried to force out the Catholics from Ireland. It was only successful in the north and hence the separation of Northern Ireland from the rest of the Ireland.
Another great victory from enforcing the rule that whoever has the best imaginary friend can do whatever they want to the one with the weaker imaginary friend.

Give Whirled Peas a chance.

Answer 4

Reading the previous answers, I think you can see that your 'DOG + STABLE = HORSE' analogy does not stand up to scrutiny.

Regarding humans, if both your parents are English, then you may call yourself English, but what if your dad is German and your mum is French, what nationality are you? Frerman?? Grench?? I hope you can see that it would be confusing.

That's why it has been decided by experts that a person can claim either the nationality of one of their parents, or the country in which they were born.

By the way, according to your reckoning, the English would be classed as German (Saxons), or Danish (Vikings), as that is where our ancestors came from. Are you happy with that?

Answer 5

I've never said that myself, I'm British, not English.
And if a dog was born in a stable it wouldn't make him a horse but it might make him entitled to residency and citizenship rights of that stable.

Answer 6

People born in ENGLAND say they are English. People born in WALES say they are Welsh; and people born in SCOTLAND say they are Scottish.

I wouldn't make the mistake of calling a Scot an Englishman if I were you - not without calling for an ambulance first.

Anyone born in those countries (and Northern Island) can also call themselves British, because that is the international designation of nationality.

Answer 7

You cannot compare a stable, a dog and the United Kingdom.
The U.K. consists of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales which falls under British rule. Actually, the people are referred to as "British". Those who hail from England, are ENGLISH. By the way, don't be confused with S. Ireland. Those from the south are not considered British, but are IRISH. They refuse to recognise the monarchy and also have their own currency.

Answer 8

So if a dog born in a stable is a horse what woud that make JC?

Answer 9

I don't think the Welsh and Scots and North Irish are going to like you very much. Only people born in England generally identify themselves as English. Though technically, anyone who is of Anglo-Saxon decent would be "English" if we went by tribal relation rather than national origin.

Answer 10

Your question is actually a misquote from Wellington who when asked about his nationality declared that he was English (even though born in Ireland) and had he been born in a stable it would not have made him a horse.

Generally people from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland think of themselves as both British and one of English, Welsh, Scots or Irish, although as seen,parentage can have as much effect on ones perception of nationality as actual place of nativity.

Coming from a long line of English ancestors on both sides of my family tree and having been born in London, I think of myself firstly as British and secondly as English. My children, who have a black West African mother but were born in England think of themselves in the same way.

Answer 11

As the first statement is wrong most of us say what we feel we are
Other nations tend to call us British and think that means English
So the second cant be compared to it
As for the dog he's an animal he doesn't know he's a dog.
Thats our lable for him!
so where-ever he's born he remains a dog