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Let me tell you where I stand:

1. This country belongs to the English - are you with me so far?
2. You dont and cannot become 'English' just cause you happened to be born here. To be English, your parents must BOTH be English, and there parents before them. Only white anglo saxon people are and can ever be English. Got that?
3. It makes me laugh on job applications where it asks for ethnic background and says 'packistani British or afro-carribean - british or african-english: WTF!
Are you willing to let England go, cause I am not.

Answer 1

If a sheep is born in a stable, it doesn't make it a horse.



confucius.

Answer 2

Shows how much you do know. British and English are two different things. You can have your English as a tribe but being British is for all comers like Scottish, welsh, black British and Indians and others. That is what GB means.

So a Scottish person is also British but not English. SEE?

Answer 3

Sympathise with your attitude, but have you explored the details of where YOU came from. We are all a bit of a mix and match if we go back a bit. Do you want a certain number of generations going back with nothing but English on both sides, before being considered 100% English? I am English born but my father came from a Welsh background, or did you mean British rather than English. I'm afraid English people do tend to refer to the whole of the British Isles as English!

Answer 4

All racial bigotry aside. Yes you are correct if we lived in the 14th century. However as a modern society that has accepted interracial relationships on the global stage, we are doomed.

No one has the right to claim to be English even those whose parental line follows your narrow perception. However being British also makes you part Welsh, Scotish and Irish.

We are all MUTS at the cellular level so the best definition you can make is that they are British.....

Answer 5

My family name came over in 1066 with the Normans. I was born in a town ending in "by" so that would be Norse. My mother's family name was Germanic (like the Queen's, but her side has been here longer than the Queen). I am white but I can't say of which heritage. My grandfathers fought in the war for Britain, one was killed and was married to an Italian woman.

As not all my grandparents are English and I have clear Norman, German, Danish and Italian in my history I am not, by your definition, English. Correct ?

Answer 6

You are contradicting yourself slightly.... The terms English and British are not the same.

I agree... you can only be called English, if both your parents are White Anglo Saxons.

But this is not the same as British. I am Indian, but was born in Uganda.... now... if you are any good at history, you will know that Uganda, was (back in time I was born there), a British Colony. Therefore making it's subjects British. Since I was born there, I was automatically a British Citizen... Like it or not... FACT.

I now live in the UK, and do consider myself a British Citizen, but I AM NOT English. Nor do I claim to be, or aim to be.

I am more than happy that I am Indian, in fact proud of it. But I am also proud to be British, and always will be.

Answer 7

I am British and proud of the fact! But, into today's society people of different cultures more around the world. Now that England is part of the EU, the situation will only get worse.

The definition of being English is changing, in another 20 years that will cover a blanket of colors , cultures and backgrounds.

Be proud of where you are from and what you stand for. But be respectful of other cultures and differences. Just because they are a different religion or different color does not make that person wrong.

I totally understand your point of view.

Answer 8

no country belongs to any specific person or group. Your reasoning is that of a racisit and you are an ignorant and jealous individual who understands nothing about culture or other human beings. Luckily people like you are gradually vanishing from society and the sooner you are gone the better... If you can't keep up then roll over...

Answer 9

How is it anyone's fault where their parents/grandparents are from? Isn't it a bit silly to say, for example, "You're not English, your grandmother was from Norway!" If that person was born, say, in Nottingham, lived there always, spoke only English, and thought of himself as English, then who are you to tell him he isn't English? What is he anyway? Do you want to apply these rules to citizenship too? If every country was to do that, most people would find themselves stateless through committing no offence apart from having a Norwegian grandmother! Anyway, why not great-grandparents? or great-great-grandparents? It's about as relevant.

Answer 10

Well actually, by your logic, nobody is truly English. A lot of us descended from vikings, many others from differing areas, including Scotland & Wales. And if you go further back, we're all African. As far as I'm concerned if you're born and raised in England then you're English. I agree with the ethnic background questions on such forms being amusing, though probably for different reasons than you. Will we ever be content with the fact that we're all human, and we all live on the same one planet?

Answer 11

Why not post this question on a more applicable site ,like the BNP website? Then you would get answers to your liking.If the rest of the racists want to give me the thumbs down go ahead.