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It's true! After recent events, it seems that everyone from those islands who "corrected" the rest of us for calling their country "England" needs to eat their
by squiggleblaz 7y ago
It's true! After recent events, it seems that everyone from those islands who "corrected" the rest of us for calling their country "England" needs to eat their hat. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is really just England and colonies. Calling them England is a more accurate result for everyone than calling them the Eucay.
- marcus_holmes 7y agoum, no. Scotland is a separate country, only merged into the UK by a coincidence of royal lineage. And you could try persuading a Welshman that Wales has been part of England for almost a thousand years now, so can they please give up any pretence at being a separate country? but you won't get far. But England dreamed of Empire and submerged itself into Britain completely. In the wake of Scottish and Welsh nationalism and independence votes, England is emerging again. And if England isn't going to be part of its own Empire, then its not going to be part of anyone else's either. Brexit is all about English nationalism (not British nationalism, because that's dying - except in Northern Ireland).