Do You Feel British Or European?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3292739/Quelle-surprise-Britain-European-nation-EU-Two-thirds-say-purely-British.html

I was surprised to read that In Germany, just 25 per cent of people said they felt ‘only German’ and not European, and 36 per cent of people in France feel ‘only French’.

Foot note:

Yes that Union Flag in the photograph is upside down.

[mccfluff]

@viv

why should the place you live in mean something to you? to me its just the place i'm currently living in...

[jno]

viv, the place I live in is London. The country I live in is the United Kingdom. The continent I live in is Europe.

[-Talbot-]

I am English
British
European
and an Earthling.

[ummmm]

AOG - Irish.

[anotheoldgit]

mccfluff

/// why should the place you live in mean something to you? to me its just the place i'm currently living in.. ///

You wouldn't say that if you happened to get into some kind of difficulty abroad, you would soon be 'flying off' to the British Embassy, demanding your rights as a British citizen.

[Mamyalynne]

Lancashire rose - I don't get out much.

[anotheoldgit]

jno

We all know where you live, but what is your nationality?

[mccfluff]

i was talking about the town/county especially as in the town i live in, means very little to me, other than the place currently i reside

but you're right if i did get into trouble abroad and i needed the help of the british embassy i would ask for it - not demand as you put it - as my right as a resident and a tax payer

it doesn't change the fact that i do not identify myself as particularly english or british, this question is about roots and my roots are not deeply mired in britain, or anywhere really

[viv41]

I'm proud to be English.

[ToraToraTora]

Saaaafend mate!

[tonyav]

Black Country.

[youngmafbog]

I'm from Ingerland - and proud of it. Never European.

I worked in Bruxelles & occasionally Paris for a number of years. Never found a Belgian or Frenchman that thought the British were European. They see us as outside. Probably due to being an Island.

[sp1814]

Regarding your post of 11:19.

I might be grabbing the wrong end of the stick, but if I'm on holiday and someone in a bar asks me where I'm from, it's not rude.

However, if I'm in a bar in London and someone from the UK asks me where I'm from and I answer "London", and then they follow up with "No, I mean originall." then I tend to roll my eyes and find someone else to talk to.

But then - that hasn't happened for absolute years.

Oh, and whenever I'm in California, the locals hear my accent and assume I'm from Australia.

Apparently to some Americans, the London accent and the Australian accent are 'interchangeable'.

[naomi24]

SP, //then they follow up with "No, I mean originall." then I tend to roll my eyes and find someone else to talk to.//

I don’t understand that attitude. Personally I’d say, “Well my forebears are from …..”. What's wrong with that?

[pixie374]

English...

[Baldric]

. . English, and proud of it!

[Zacs-Master]

I feel Yorkshire first and English a very close second and British a long distant third.

[DTCwordfan]

Both though first English and then a European, also have had the privilege to live in 4 Euro countries and work in most of them.

[Retrochic]

naomi...."I don’t understand that attitude. Personally I’d say, “Well my forebears are from …..”. What's wrong with that?"

nothing if you are white Caucasian -a little bit condescending if you are Black,Asian or mixed race,

[DTCwordfan]

sorry 5 and my count does not include L'Écosse - yet