> people who seriously called people who live on the same tectonic plate as us, who used to be directly connected to us with a land bridge only a few 10kA ago,

> people who seriously called people who live on the same tectonic plate as us, who used to be directly connected to us with a land bridge only a few 10kA ago, and who have no continental slope or suchlike between us, "the continent". It’s more surprising to me that there are Brits who consider themselves European. From my point of view, there’ve been deep distinctions between Great Britain and the Continent for centuries. Britain seems distinct from the European nations that, for example, Burgundy or the Hanseatic League, or modern Germany, are not. Part of that, of course, is just that I’m an Anglophone. And certainly the Scandinavian countries are in some regards equally different from ‘Europe.’