because a wise man once said a cat in an oven is not a batch of cookies
2007-05-21 08:02:16 · 44 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Perhaps not, but having bad teeth would make you English.
2007-05-21 08:04:43 · answer #1 · answered by WWTSD? 5 · 7⤊ 11⤋
Well a cat is the oven is certainly not a batch of cookies!
But in answer to your question.
A friend of mine was born in Canada, to English Parents, and when he was 9 months old the family returned to England, Officially he is Canadian, he has not been there he see himself as English. In the same way one of my other friends is from the Seychelles, and has lived in England since they was 6, has an English Passport, but actually sees themselves as Seychellian rather than English. So it depends on where you feel you allegiance belongs rather than where you are born.
2007-05-22 00:42:55 · answer #2 · answered by Joolz of Salopia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I remember when my sister threw my cat in the oven (she was trying to make me go and get my youngest sister from the babysitter, about half a mile on foot.) Well - I'm stubborn eh, so I dug in and waited for to smell scorched fur. I cared about the cat but, I wasn't going to let my sister get the upper hand. Anyway - the oven wasn't working, which my sister knew, but I didn't, until my other sister told me. I was relieved of course, and I still had to go and get my youngest sister anyway. So, no, a cat in the oven is not a batch of cookies, its leverage. All my ancestors are from Britain. I guess you'd be English.
2007-05-21 08:25:19 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A cat's a cat, whwerever it's born, as you're a human wherever you're born. Citizenship reflects the attitude you have, where you pay taxes, where you automatically/
instinctively cheer for, etc. As for being 'English': if you vote LibDem, never: Labour, terribly misguided: Tory, betrayed by the smug, cocaine-snorting Blair wannabe and his imbecile supporters: BNP, GROW UP!: UKIP, fed up: Independent, wake up: want a Government that represents what ordinary British people want, but can't find the party willing to stand for it, stitched up. The sooner someone asks Peter Hitchens, Richard Littlejohn, Denise Phillips and Trevor Kavanagh to write a Manifesto and stands on that, the better for us all: English, Scot, Northern Irish or Welsh.
2007-05-21 08:24:40 · answer #4 · answered by Already Saved 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well it depends. On the legal front then you are a british citizen regardless of the nationality of your parents. You could go and live and become a foreign citizen in another country if you wanted in your life. But on the legal front, if your birth is registered in England then you are a British National. You can attempt to become mixed nationalities legally if either or both your parents are of a different nationality just to be annoying.
Ethically and morally you can choose to be whatever you want though, but in the legal sense, you'd be british.
Does that help?
Toodles
2007-05-21 08:10:47 · answer #5 · answered by thetruesloth 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means that you have English citizenship. The culture in which you developed you global concepts are you true identity. Also, were you raised in Great Britain? If so, I am interested in learning from you, how YOU identify yourself. We all have layers of self concept, which developed from the dynamics we experience in our family, our primary culture, our social experiences, our level of education, and many experiences that were subtly, either positive, or negative.
Yep. that cat in the oven may have been a poodle.
2007-05-29 07:43:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Put the gun down, man. Born in England? Yes, you are English. Congratulations
2007-05-27 14:48:24 · answer #7 · answered by Owl Eye 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being born in England does not make you English.
2007-05-21 08:44:52 · answer #8 · answered by Dotty 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes and no.
By standards, I was born in the United States so I'm American.
So you are actually English.
But them again I'm English in the fact that I speak it.
Like those from Mexico speak Mexican.
Sorry, you're probably more confused than you were
2007-05-29 07:29:13 · answer #9 · answered by Marie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it does not make you the nationality of the country your born in.you could be a British subject with an English passport.a mistake of birth only gives the right to a passport of the country your born in.it doesn't make you English.
2007-05-21 08:17:26 · answer #10 · answered by earl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are born in England you are a citizen of the UK and yes it makes you English by nationality. However, your ethnicity may be different.
2007-05-21 08:13:11 · answer #11 · answered by genaddt 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋