I love English people. The British make me cringe. I think I know the difference. But what do YOU say. C'mon Canada, Canada Water, Canada Dry. West Bromwich. let's be havin' ya
2006-11-08 08:24:57 · 14 answers · asked by knoWall 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Come off it Jon! I know what the british Isles are and I know what England is. I majored in European geography. Why don't you answer the question like the rest of them?
2006-11-08 08:37:09 · update #1
Pinky Lulu
There is no such PLACE as Britain. Great Britain yes! But the Welsh won't thank me fo bringing that up as they are the REAL British
2006-11-08 08:40:31 · update #2
Shalama
You believe that everbody in the British Isles is British? Whooooooooooooops!
2006-11-08 08:41:52 · update #3
Lulu
Scottish is British?
Whooooooooooooooooooops!
2006-11-08 08:44:07 · update #4
The Scots are brought up to call themselves Scots
The Welsh are brought up to call themselves Welsh
The Irish are brought up to call themselves Irish
The English are brought up to call themselves British.
So to the rest of them British is a synonym of English and so is hated.
2006-11-08 08:30:07 · answer #1 · answered by A True Gentleman 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Do you understand the difference between English and British factually? English people are the people of England. British people are the people of the United Kingdom i.e. England, Scotland, Wales & N.Ireland. I kind of get you. Englishness has different connotations to the British. Britishness has connotations conservativeness (is that a word?) patriotism and the royal family and, well, poshness. Englishness is more realistic. Is that what you meant?
2006-11-08 08:29:14 · answer #2 · answered by Jack 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English people come from East Anglia and they were conquered by the Danes. Saxons are in the south but we got conquered by the Normans (who were Vikings). Brits (Romanised) got taken over by the Saxons and some were killed, but the Welsh fled to Wales.
But everybody mated with each other and mostly now it is a mixture of peoples.
2006-11-08 08:46:10 · answer #3 · answered by Perseus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
English are from england, British, is the british isles, ie, england scotland ireland or wales, british could be from any of these countries.
2006-11-08 08:38:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being British means you come from britain, English means you come from England. But Englishness is about your character in that you have "English" characteristics
2006-11-08 08:28:47 · answer #5 · answered by PinkyLulu 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think British is a nationality, it's the place you were born. Englishman is an attitude. God save the queen, stiff upper lip, watching cricket, carrying a bowler and an umbrella THAT'S an Englishman.
2006-11-08 08:31:56 · answer #6 · answered by Jabberwock 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Englishness now means the total a-holes following a football team bringing "britain" down. Also the ambassadors - the royals - being the stereotypical dysfunctional family where de-sensitisation of your being is accepted. glad i'm scottish!
2006-11-08 10:31:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Scottish is British, would you call a Scotsman English?
Mexico and Canada are on the American continent, would you call them American?
2006-11-08 08:28:37 · answer #8 · answered by lulu 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Englishness means to have typically english attributes.... like drinking tea, eating cream scones, getting a black cab or a red bus :-) being polite, stiff upper lip and all that
2006-11-08 08:27:14 · answer #9 · answered by Shellie 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What pur e british people do like eat fish and chips or drink tea.
2006-11-08 08:33:16 · answer #10 · answered by samlfc4life 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋