Google| Subject | Re: Queen mother (of Britain) has died |
| From | TradeSurplus |
| Date | 2002-04-15 14:33 (2002-04-15 14:33) |
| Message-ID | <TMzu8.12642$V06.3677814914@newssvr10.news.prodigy.com> |
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| Newsgroups | alt.fan.tolkien |
| Follows | Jette Goldie |
| Followups | Jette Goldie (8h & 31m) |
Jette Goldie wrote ...
Jette GoldieBut that's the whole point innit? Many people in NI do not want to be British therefore by calling the UK the United Kingdom of Britain you are insulting them by saying that only British people are in the UK, thus the inhabitants of NI must be British, whether they want to be or not.
"TradeSurplus" wroteTradeSurplusJette Goldie
Jay Random wrote ...Jay RandomTradeSurplus
TradeSurplus wrote:TradeSurplusJay Random
Do you want to try another guess at naming the country of which England and Scotland are parts? 10 obscuro points to a non-Briton who can do so.
I take it it isn't the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland, then?
We have a winner! Seems many scots insist on including the whole of Britain (not just
England)TradeSurplusJette Goldie
in the UK but forget that NI is also a part.
No, we don't *forget* - we know that *some* N Irish don't want to be British, and some do - so until we know which way the Irish person in question feels about the question, we leave it up to them to claim or not claim their "Britishness".
By the same logic, not all Scottish people want to be called English, so the OP who said that the recently deceased queen mother was queen mother of England was insulting Scottish people by implying that all inhabitants of the UK were English.
Not all UKish people are English, neither are all UKish people British. Implying either of these by limiting the name of the UK to either England or Britain is either deliberately excluding non-English or non-British people or unintentionally doing it, which is sometimes worse.
*I* am Scottish and British - I leave it to the various Northern Irish to speak for themselves.I confess that I was being unwarrantedly nitpickish. I just thought it funny that you would "correct" one person's error with another piece or erroneous info.
Trade.
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