Are you British?

@panda12 wrote:

@j_in_france wrote:

@terry wrote:

@panda12 wrote:

Just had an idea – if in doubt check what it says on your passport. :P

Or passports if you have dual nationality.

United Kingdom.

I’m still not British. Being British takes away your identity.

Your identity is you not what country you come from

Depends what Terry means by identity. In this context, I don’t think he’s talking about his name.

Most people assume a different name on here and I am sure you are not called panda in real life – what I referred to was the person behind the name. Every person has an identity whatever their name

As I said – Your identity is you not what country you come from

Panda’s right; it’s his racial cultural, not his individual identity he’s talking about. The two aren’t contradictory.

Well, England has changed a lot. It’s now multi-cultural, multi-racial, I’m pleased to note. I was born in England to a Welsh mam and an English dad whose family were of Huguenot descent (from Lorraine, apparently). A lot of people are like that. But culturally, I guess my type is the English/British background – reserved, taciturn even, but also very eccentric and quite intellectual (which are not English traits for historical reasons, though Scots have a more intellectual background, and Welsh and Irish as more literary one).

The UK’s not totally integrated, but more so than much of the USA – I was in Boston a few years back having a meal with a group of people, one of whom told us that her Jewish family was freaked because the daughter was marryihng an Eye-talian. Religion as well as ethnic identity was being challenged.

Culture changes – it always has. If you were going to freeze our culture into one moment and stop other cultures coming in and intermingling, then you grow inward-looking and start having problems – think of the Egyptian Pharaohs who were inbred by law – boy did they go strange.

So good on J-in-France, good on panda (half-and-half) and good on cultural change and assimilation

Don’t worry panda I don’t mind at all :roll:

Everyone is an individual with their own views and choices whatever their background origins or ideas and that forms their identity

I might not like that but I can accept their choice but I don’t have to agree with it

During the time when half the world was painted red there were a lot of births in various parts of the Commonwealth where the people born were considered British

When those people or their descendants chose to move to the UK because of many and different circumstances that did not change their nationality

Everyone despite creed nor colour has their own identity