Go to Cardiff and call a Welshman British, he'll correct you.
Go to Belfast and call a Northern Irishman British...he'll probably correct you.
What happens if I go to London?
The term British like it or not is a term for inhabitants of the kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. There are no independent English or Scottish or Welsh passports (NI complicated as you can take an Irish one) All citizens are therefore British by nationality. By birth or habitation is completely different. Some won't mind being termed British and their country of birth. Others will vehemently state they are their country of birth only. The term British has also evolved to cater for immigration ie country of origin if someone so chooses. Someone born in England (some would add living) in England is English. This doesn't necessarily make them have to be white "English" if you add on a potentially determinable factor. A black person can be English and is not ruled out due to race. However some people who were not born in Britain/or England etc. or who do not wish to state that they are English by habitation would call themselves British by place of habitation.
British Pakistani being a prime example.
No Nothing wrong with being called British But Never call anyone But an English man English
But Like all the Nationalities Making up Britain we like to be called the nationality we are
i am British but prefer English
I prefer being called English rather than British. Other people are different though it's just a personal preference.
All of those above and the ones in England will agree to being British. They might prefer their own country but will always prefer British over the wrong one, like in Scotland you better use British than English. In England you better use British than Scottish.
I am British. I am not English, but I would certainly not correct you for calling me British. Very few would object to being called British and they are wrong.
British and English is not the same thing. English are white anglo-saxon and born in England, not Wales or Scotland or Northern Ireland.
If you go to London you won't meet an Englishman. Sorry bad joke, I know.
Anyway I would correct you. I am English and British, but I want to be seen as English.
Okay I suck at explain things so I'll try something different. It's similar to calling someone from Japan, just Asian. It devalues them and who they are.
You are WRONG...SO VERY WRONG...!!!MOST people in Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland KNOW WE are BRITISH too..JUST like the English....As regards NORTHERN IRELAND , which I can see you do NOT KNOW, call MOST Irish & will get the negative response....The REASON THE SIX COUNTIES is in a UK is because the LOYALIST MAJORITY is PROUD to BE BRITISH & most take great exception to being called IRISH as a result.......EDUCATED people know what it means to be SCOTTISH & British etc..I see YOU have a LOT to learn about the UK??? CITIZENS of THE UK are BRITISH by definition..We are PROUD too to BE WELSH etc....More UNITES the peoples of the UK than divides.. COMMON & shared HISTORY,LANGUAGE,poular culture.etc etc....SOME English, I find, are a BIT THICK and forget the rest of us are around....They are late realisung that we have spent generations telling outsiders, in my family's case..YES we are BRITISH but NOT English..We are Welsh....Not rocket science...With time those very outsiders get it and some of the aforementioned English do not..
"Go to Belfast and call a Northern Irishman British...he'll probably correct you. " Highly unlikely, they are proud to be British!
...and like it or not Scottish, Welsh, Northern Ireland and English are all British... one is their ethnicity the other their Nationality
Probably much less sensitive to being called British than the others. Scottish/Welsh/Irish are often labeled as English by Americans, and sometimes others. So, they understandably they can find it annoying. They have pride in their identity.
