Nationality - a poll for Brits

[ladyofastolat]

This is a poll just for people from Britain. Sorry, everyone else!

Having nothing pressing to do tonight, I decided to say "yes" when the BBC website asked me if I had a few minutes to evaluate the bit of it I was on. The survey went on to ask me what my nationality was, offering me a list of options that included "British" as well as "English," "Scottish", "Welsh" etc. It made me wonder how many people would select the country-specific answer, and how many would go for the general. I would imagine that English people are more likely to select "British" than Scottish people are, at any rate.

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(This all reminds me of the chap who filled in our library user survey, and in the ethnic origin section, disdained the "white - English" option, and angrily wrote "I'm white Anglo-Saxon (not on list!)"

EDIT: Curses. I just accidentally voted as Pellinor, who is currently in a wet field in Yorkshire and nowhere near a computer. Since I seem to use the laptop for LJ a lot more than he does, perhaps I ought to change the LJ login manager to default to my login, not his.

Comments

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

And, indeed, I did.

If it was on the BBC news website, I also gave them a pasting for the new dumbed down website design.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I was on the letters page of the Magazine section. Since they kept saying in bold at the top that they were asking for my opinion of the Magazine Monitor Blog, it made it rather hard to answer lots of the questions, since they weren't really relevant, or else were issues that weren't unique to that section. Then, at the end, it asked me if I'd been confining my answers to the section they'd asked me about, or if I'd actually been talking about the whole site. I found it all rather frustrating.

[thecatsamuel.livejournal.com]

I told them about the dumbing down - the local news stories seem aimed at the hard of thinking and it's deeply annoying.

My father is second-generation Irish (and Catholic) and my mother second-generation Swedish (and Lutheran) but I think of myself as English. It's so much simpler.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I'm actually half German, though there is a touch of Swedish in there too.