Anonymous asked: Umm, I am a little confused by your post about identifying as English vs. British. Technically people who are citizens of England are refered to being 'English', not British. The term British is used for the collective citzens of the whole of the United Kingdom, and refers to the English, the Scots and the Welsh, and each of these and the minority groups within have various ways of viewing their identity.
I’m a little confused by the fact that you’re trying to explain something to me about a country which I have lived in the whole of my life.
I wasn’t saying that you can’t refer to English people as English, or that English people can’t refer to themselves as being English. I was talking about English people who claim to dislike being referred to as British and insist on always being referred to as English instead. This is often for reasons such as feeling that they aren’t allowed to be patriotic or show pride in their national identity etc and that is really messed up since there is nobody trying to erase the English identity. I was also trying to explain why it is significantly different when people from areas of the UK outside of England insist on being identified as Welsh or Scottish etc instead of English, because they have far more valid reasons for this insistence than English people do.
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