Are you British, English or European?

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arnee86

I never really refer to myself as being European, I suppose I think of that as being from the actual continent rather than the UK. On official forms and stuff I always say British but mostly in general conversation I just say "I'm a Geordie"! That pretty much covers it!

Pkr

All of the above

Bianca

i'm Scottish, British and European i suppose

adozenredroses12

Well I was Born in England, my passport says British, and I'm not currently living the UK, but I'd still say I feel English.

LOU

English

Bein' cheeky, are ye?!

American-born body with a Scottish soul :)

davidm9870

Scottish

Bill Hanson

euro

Alesha

Welsh :)

English - I was born in in England.

Jason W

English. there are many miles seperating me from Europe!

hello

Scottish, British and European. Although, when I come across English nationalism I change to being Scottish and European, if they don't want to share a country then neither do I.

203

I consider myself all three at the same time.

It just depends on how close you want to zoom in... or maybe even how parochial you are.

Conversely if you want to zoom right out I'm a citizen of planet earth too.

SJM

I (obviously) am all three, but I consider myself English first and foremost and if someone asks me where I'm from that's what I tell them. Having said that, when I'm in the US I always say I'm British, but that's only because they don't seem to understand what I mean when I say I'm English (no idea why).

blaster 2

I usually say British...but I'm English as well.

Ok, Time 4 plan B

I'm English. which is in he UK so I'm also British

but if you want to go more into it.

my grandfather was Scottish, Nana English
dad English, mam half Scottish so some Scottish in too, but I was born in the north east of England so I say English

RichB

English or British.

Most English people 50 years ago would have said British, but there's more of a separate English identity now, similar to that for Scotland and Wales.

That was really hammered home to me in Scotland when I put "British" as my nationality on an application form, only for the stern lady to cross it out and write "ENGLISH" in capital letters.

What's interesting is that British people from ethnic minorities, born in England, generally use the term British rather than English. This means that the word English has more ethnic connotations (i.e. English = white) than the word British does.

99% of British people regardless of background, do not consider themselves to be European. Europe is that place south and east of here, that you have to cross the sea or use a tunnel to get to.

Nom de guerre

I'm British first, English second, and European third.

Argyle1886

All three, not to pleased about the European part though

Alison G

I consider myself English, but with heritage from all main parts of the UK.

sindy

scottish & proud of it

Guerrilla Sauce

All of the above; but I'll say I'm British when asked by a foreigner... just seems to roll of the tongue better than 'English'.

giraffe boy

I am Scottish born and proud to be Scottish and British second. I wouldn't even consider myself to be European. Thinking that way kinda homogenises all of nations and takes away local identity.

an Acadian Muslimah

Acadian, so none of the above except European.

mynamesdan

i thought 'British' was outdated. when people ask me if i'm British i'll usually correct them with 'from the UK' or English.

European's probably a bit vague.

AL G

I'm British by birth, Welsh by the grace of god and European over my dead body! :-)

Peace Out

neither! American I just wanted to find out about yahoo answers UK

James M

I'm British. I have no English blood as my family came from Wales but I was born in London.

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