nationality or european

yeah thats sort of my point I was trying to portray, a lot of other nationalities italy spain romania etc etc seem to class themselves as european as opposed to italian spanish or romanian. To me I will always be english as that is where I was born, and am proud to be english I just think when countries start classing themselves as say european per say then it starts eroding each countries own nationality in many ways merging the countries into one country called europe instead of the seperate countries that make up the EU.

When I was at school many decades ago I was taught that UK is/was part of Europe and that was long before the EU existed. It's all about continents surely?

so was I he he he, but that means we are loosing national identity, countries have fought wars to keep their identity, look at the world wars battle of britain etc etc againist germany which was trying to conquer what is europe now per say. In a round about kind of a war what germany didn't manage to do the european union has nearly managed. Just think its ok to have a generic term for differing parts of the world ie the america's or the british isle's or southern hemisphere but each country should still have their own national identity and each citizen should be proud of being say english or italian etc etc

hopefully englands in fact all of british isles nationalities will stay well clear of going too far into the europe union each country needs its own national identity and freedom within their own borders just my opinion.

yeah I meant if anyone asks where do you live I would never say europe but I know a lot of people do. I wil always have my national identity per say, Europe is just a group of countries pretty much like the united kingdom is made up of england ireland scotland wales. The discussion was brought up as I was talking to a person in australia who asked where I was from I answered england and they said cool so you are a european. I hope we never adopt the euro, and yeah the european economic community and the european law makers not good each country should be free to decide on their own rules and regulations its just like the free movement of european's to move from country to country and are free to work in each country etc etc

I fully agree with you in that respect, I am an Englishman first and foremost. I remember how disappointed I was when the passports changed and I ended up with a European format of passport instead of the British passport that I am accustomed to. I shall always consider myself to be English irrespective of how they choose to amalgamate countries etcetera.

cool it just seems to me the german's failed to create a master state in the world wars, yet what the german's failed to do the European Union have actually succeeded in doing the same to a certain degree.

that's my point we are such a mixed breed with a lot of different blood from ancestor after ancestor, Yet I was born in england so to me that makes me english same as if I was born in spain I'd be spanish and I would expect every country to have it's own national identity as opposed to grouping everyone together in one group. Even if I lived in say Australia for the last 10 years I would still be english. it seems that europe have created in the last few years a new nationality that of being a european.