A geography lesson

Thanks for that, I get confused. I'm never quite sure where I live but I knows I is Inglish.

I didn't know that a Welsh or Scottish citizen was considered "British". They certainly sound different! Kind of like our southerners with practically their own dialect or our people up in the Northeast with their long vowels. Of course, we are all on one land mass and the British holdings are not. It is strange for me to think of Ireland as British.

I live in the U.S. but for some reason we've decided to usurp the whole of 2 continents for what we call ourselves - "Americans"... I try to always call myself from the U.S., but I guess it starts to be difficult after that. Now, I live in Texas, and Texans have never forgotten they were once a sovereign nation, although I'm technically a "Damn Yankee"

Well I'm Canadian and I live in Canada. Most of you Brits ended up here, so I guess I'm part Brit too! A right mongrel. ROFL

Hey, are you discriminating against Devon and Cornwall here?

You get called all sorts of things when you go abroad. You also spend lots of time explaining that New York is not the capital of London. Generally, it's very hard to "keep the Empire alive" as I have done for the last twenty five years. Worst is when you meet a fellow "Brit" and they think your accent is German!

This is something I might have learned in grade school..but sadly I have unlearned/forgotten half of what I learned there. So, thanks for the lesson because it is something I didn't remember.

I don't know how many times people have got this stuff wrong and I think it's quite annoying, especially when non-British people think they know better than us. I would like to make a point though. I really hate the word "Brit", if we must be referred to as being British rather than separately, can people please remember that the correct (and, I feel, more polite) word is Briton. A person from Britain is a Briton. To me, "Brit" is a derogatory term referring to people who cause trouble while abroad and give Britons a bad name.

I live in England and I was born in England. I went to a university in Wales. When I was a student there studying my degree many of the students came from Wales and most if those were Welsh speakers. Many of the students came from England like myself. None of the students came from Scotland. Some of the students came from Northern Ireland. Some of the students came from the Republic of Ireland also called Southern Ireland. The ones from Northern Ireland got a grant but the ones from the Republic of Ireland had weren't able to get a grant. Many people don't know that the capital city of Australia is Canberra. They wrongly imagine it is Sydney or Melbourne. They might imagine that Auckland is the capital city of New Zealand but in fact it is Wellington. In the USA the capital city is Washington DC. There is a state called Washington where the city called Seattle is. I have traveled to small places hardly noticed on the world map like Latvia, the Maldives and Samoa. I like to be thought of as British or English. In Australia I liked to be called the English traveler and not the pommy tourist.

Hi P1key, And what a great place it is too, I'm proud to be one of the "Brits" too, hugs. Tamara

Hi there p1kef1sh Now you have probably managed to confuse most of the myLot members I would also like to say that not only am I English and British I am also Cornish and a European. That should do it!

I am pretty aware of these facts. As an Aussie, we are quite knowledgeable about Britain seeing as most of us descend from there in the first place. Some willingly, some not! We learn quite a bit about other countries in school here and global news is featured quite heavily here (probably because not much happens here!) so we are quite good at geography. I am guessing that you are aiming this discussion at our American friends who are not so well educated on other countries outside of their borders. No offence to my American friends here, but from my experience of living there and the experience of others, this is sadly true. I met people there who thought that Australia was the size of California and there was another who did not know where it was on the globe!

Well, it is good to know that. I am a Filipina/Filipino and I live in the Philippines. However, Filipinos are further classified according to where they are, like I am a Visayan because I am situated in that part of the country.

wow, very educational. i used to think all Brits only come from England. thanks for the info!

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Hi there! i can relate as what you said in here at my lot i have lots of freinds from different locations of the earth some came from europe particularly in scotland and france. And i have friends from asia. It is so nice to be acquianted with different people from all over the world.

i hate geography lesson.

wow maybe that's make you not feel comfort and have some gap, but it's okay i think, maybe you can do some event that improve the soul of british on your heart s you can feel that you're brits and can share each other, that's my opinion, how bout you guys?