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Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) | [ Next Thread |
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] Date Posted: 16:30:21 11/05/04 Fri In reply to: Nick (UK) 's message, "England! Where the Sacred flame/Burns before the inmost shrine...." on 16:08:09 11/05/04 Fri And I mean "exactly" towards both Dave and Nick's comments. It is one of the problems but its origin is in age. England as one unitary, homogenous political, cultural and economic entity is 1300 years old. Scotland too, although I think that the evolution of a central government in Edinburgh came later... say, at most a mere 900 years ago. Difficult to overturn that overnight. But it is irritating when people say "England" to mean Britain... it makes me froth at the mouth, and I live in England! Foreigners are the worst at this, and in some cases it is not their fault: the Italians, for example, don't have a word for "British" except for "Britannico", which really refers to the ancient Britons as a tribe, not the modern sense of an adjective meaning "pertaining or refering to the United Kingdom"; so they just say "inglese". The Americans, though, have no excuse, and only the other day some Republican senator was talking about rebuilding the Atlantic alliance, and he said, "What's the point? In our future missions we'll be looking for the support of countries with military reach and experience, which doesn't mean France or Germany, it means England." Bit rude, considering that the chaps helping out the Yanks in the Triangle of Death this week are all Scots! And this sort of mistake doesn't help. Still, no-one can answer for anyone but himself; in which context, I can state that it is not a mistake that I ever make, and I am proud to call myself British. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: Owain (UK) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 17:33:23 11/05/04 Fri Ed and Nick, you are both right about the annoyance of having my country reffered to as England. I get so mad about it (one time I got so mad about it on the paradox forum that they band me, which was the first time). Its such an insult towards me and the rest of Wales, plus Scotland and Northern Ireland. This is one of the reasons I wnat to see a united British sports teams, that way people will get used to saying Britain rather than Wales, England or Scotland. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |