Are English people English, are Welsh people Welsh and are Scottish people Scottish ?

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0114da

we are all BRITISH...i hope that answer's the question

TLB

This is an idiotic question

Sebastian

I'm from England, but come from a Scottish background

i just see myself as English

Facile Princeps

I am Scottish with an English wife and four English born children, my children were not all that interested in there Scottish bloodline until I told them I am decedent from Viking warriors who settled in Scotland a few hundred years ago and my wife can trace her family line back to seventeenth century Germany

John C

I'm English since I was born in England... although technically I'm British since I can't stick "English" on any forms these days.

In terms of ancestry, I'd be surprised if any English "indigenous" persons don't have Celtic or Norman blood anywhere in their family tree.

Same might not be able to be said for the Welsh and Scots since the Celts seemed to move to/influence North and South-West England.

I'd say the Welsh are Welsh; the Scots, Scots; and the English... Equal Opportunity Bloodlines (politically correct?)

Col

Most Scots consider themselves primarily Scottish . The British identity to us is not paramount indeed it is irrelevant . What one finds in the modern Scotland is that persons born outwith the country but living here , readily identify themselves as being Scottish . That is nationality . Welcome all .l

Don't tell my boss I'm on here

Well I like to call a spade a spade.
If you are born in England, you are English, if you are born in Wales you are Welsh, and if you are born in Scotland, then you are Scottish.

I was born in Northern Ireland and consider myself to be Northern Irish, but as forms will not allow me to put that, then I tick British.

You do get some nitpickers who consider themselves to be 'half Irish, half American' and suchlike, but as far as I am concerned, your nationality is whatever country you were born in unless you legally change your citezenship

henblantbach

I'm 100% welsh too... All my relatives (alive or dead) are all welsh.

And yea , i even if i had an english father or someone , i would still consider myself welsh through and through just because i live my life as a welsh girl

I never speak english in real life , and lead my life through welsh in wales.

(but my dad's welsh anyway)

brother_in_magic

Genetically, they are much of a muchness! All of them, English included. The majority descend from ancient hunter gatherers and neolithic farmers. There's some viking in Scotland and England, some Saxon in England and lowland Scotland (though it is not nearly as common in England as once though,with the older dna prevailing), a bit of Norman (really just recycled vikings anyway!) mainly in England's titled families.
You'll note I don't say the word 'celts'. Well, the 'celts' proper were a middle European tribe. We used to think they 'invaded' Britain in about 500 BC but there is no archaeological or genetic evidence for that. As the early people of Britain spoke a celtic language you can get away with calling them 'celtic' through that but they are not closely related to the people of the same name in Europe.

Cymro i'r Carn

That may be true of English people because scots, irish and welsh migrated to England in industial revolutions etc and then integrated into England, but that has never really happend on a mass scale in Wales, Scotland or Ireland ,

I most definetly am Welsh, I speak Welsh as my First language, my grandparents did, they're grandparents did and they're grandparents did.

If you'r referring to this well Welsh is my first language therefore me saying that it is is obviously going to sound similar to somebody else who say's that Welsh is their first language FOOl

FfÅµl dan din.

Rolyn braidd yn flÃ®n

I certainly AM Welsh...I was born in Wales, I speak Welsh as my first language, my parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents were Welsh and spoke Welsh every day...how much more Welsh could I be?

Swyn J

You're whatever you want to be in my opinion. If you want to be called Welsh then so be it - people always have a valid reason for wanting to be called a certain nationality! They don't just randomly determine their nationality as a rule...

skeptical

No.

Scottish people are Scots.

seb

Are bananas bananas?

Katie F

It depends on whether you're talking about nationality or blood line.

Nationality wise, the English, Welsh and Scots are all British. We all have a British passport, regardless of which of the countries we were born in.

Personally, I call myself English. Blood wise, I'm a quarter Irish as both my parents are a quarter Irish, but I've never even been to Ireland. So I can't claim to have any sort of bond with that ancestry.

I'm English.

alan m

Place of birth determines your nationality. Keep it simple. ( Im Japanese with Welsh parents !

mr.bigz

most english people are a mix of all those races-but it is less true that the scots,irish and welsh have as much so called english in them-because less english people settle in those locations-

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