Why people think that ?
2006-11-19 05:39:37 · 19 answers · asked by sid_blue 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Valleyviolet I can prove that people from wales,scotland, north ireland ( who are NOT english) are indeed british
2006-11-19 05:59:57 · update #1
This is likely because out of all the British lands, England is the most well known place and people also know that Britain is joined together in most things.
2006-11-19 05:46:40 · answer #1 · answered by Eden 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being English means born in England.
Being British means living in Britain, which is the whole of the country, not just England, but Scotland & Wales, too.
2006-11-19 05:46:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the sense that they're from the same region. The English are from England just as the Irish are from Ireland and Scots from Scotland. They're all British from the British Isles.
2006-11-19 05:44:14 · answer #3 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you English not from Britain?
Or You are from Britain and not English?
Or You are from Britain and English not from any other region and want to be called English?
The answer is for the rest of the world, English comes from British.
2006-11-19 05:46:45 · answer #4 · answered by Professor 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Japanese & Cantonese they're the same word. That's why there's confusion. It happens a lot in forgeign languages.
A lot of people when i told them where i was from,thought Scotland was a town just north of London.
2006-11-19 05:45:02 · answer #5 · answered by mexican_seafooduk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
all to do with the weather! A sunny day is "Lovely English Weather" but bad days are always "Crap British Weather"....ergo, bad weather must be the fault of the Welsh and Scottish...so people forget about them perhaps?
2006-11-19 05:50:56 · answer #6 · answered by YourLocalGP 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't.
maybe since England was such a dominant force in conquering its neighbors before the British Empire began conquering everyone else, that peopel get confused.
2006-11-19 05:42:30 · answer #7 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You mean you can be English and not be British?
2006-11-19 05:41:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
britain includes england, so you can be british and english. its kinda the same but not really
2006-11-19 05:43:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Act of Union I think
2006-11-19 05:41:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋