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

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Is it any wonder that furriners don't understand all this, when we who live here are so often confused? :-) When we were in Mudeford, in Dorset, there were lots of small boat operators offering day trips to the Isle of Wight. From the fact that they all prominently stated that no passport was required, I can only imagine that people frequently assumed otherwise. I doubt there are hordes of foreign tourists in Mudeford, so it's probably mostly British people making this mistake.

Although the Isles of Man and Wight are classed along with Calais in Kingmaker, as isolated places that can't even be reached by news of peasant revolts. :-)

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

When I was at school, there was a geography teacher who, on every single school trip that went into England, came around the bus asking to see the pupils' passports. Every single trip. Of course nobody ever fell for it, because the very same teacher used to tell us the story in lessons at every opportunity of the one time one of his pupils did fall for it.