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Question: So how do you identify yourself?
English - 39 (65%)
British - 14 (23.3%)
Scottish - 1 (1.7%)
Welsh - 1 (1.7%)
Other - 5 (8.3%)
Total Voters: 49

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SwindonTartanArmy
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« on: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 07:59:43 »

Following on from a discussion about the proposed GB football team in the Other Football thread, I thought it would be interesting to guage how people define their nationality. Especially with the amount of people claiming to be british and then moaning about having a Scot as Prime Minister.
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« Reply #1 on: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 08:01:31 »

Ace a poll.

Doesn't quite work though as I consider myself to be both English and British, which I am.
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« Reply #2 on: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 08:03:34 »

Ace a poll.

Doesn't quite work though as I consider myself to be both English and British, which I am.

Yes, same with me, can you change the poll to show this?

Thanks awfully.
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« Reply #3 on: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 08:04:55 »

I've only seen the you scot monkeys bring up the Scottish Prime Minister thing. Don't bother me not bit.

I have absolutely no problem as seeing myself as both British and English, aswell as a few other things, which breaks down your poll a bit. I'd vote other but then that makes me look like I'm a dirty foreigner.

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flammableBen

« Reply #4 on: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 08:13:12 »

Ooooh. I'd also like to point that I put very little importance in where I happened to be born. Something else which your poll doesn't reflect.

In fact this is the problem with polls, very few discussions can be pigeon-holed in discreet options like this, especially something like your views on nationality. There's such a wide range of possible opinions that your poll options are completely arbitrary, my opinions on the subject are no more likely to be the same as someone who's voted the same as me than they are to someone who's voted differently, which makes the whole thing a bit pointless.
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« Reply #5 on: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 08:19:49 »

why isnt there a mexican option?
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flammableBen

« Reply #6 on: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 08:22:34 »

Becasue STA is a racist like all scots.
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« Reply #7 on: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 08:26:10 »

Always English for me... i have no ties to anywhere else in my immediate family
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« Reply #8 on: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 08:35:12 »

British By Birth... English By The Grace Of God.

English 100%
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« Reply #9 on: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 08:51:17 »

English mother, Scottish dad makes me Great British.  Now there's a shock eh??

My dad brought me up well, I support Scotland in national sporting events, and as such with england being the auld enemy I like to see them do awfully (which to be fair doesn't happen that often).  But when it does it's great!!

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« Reply #10 on: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 09:13:43 »

english first, british second, and a bit german when england go out of any major sporting events and the boxheads are still in. Tongue
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« Reply #11 on: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 09:17:38 »

me Great British. 

Hun! Soapy Tit Wank
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« Reply #12 on: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 09:21:12 »

Im not going to edit it as I dont think you can consider yourself equally British and English/Scottish/Jamaican so there. ner ner ner ner ner.

Basically what do you put down as nationality on application forms etc.
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« Reply #13 on: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 09:46:33 »

British. It's what I put on forms and stuff.
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« Reply #14 on: Wednesday, July 30, 2008, 09:48:01 »

Hun! Soapy Tit Wank

I'm no hun, but I can't change the nationality of my mum!!  I'm not a union jack waver though, or a gstq singer, puck that loyalist shite.  

Luckily my mum's got Irish blood in her, so that's where I get my Catholicism from!!  God save the Pope as Artur Borac would say (on his t-shirt).
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