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

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

Now he'd have had a point if he'd written "I'm white Welsh!"

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I have nationality confusion as I was born in England, moved to Wales at the age of 6 weeks, lived in Wales till I was 13, and now live in Cornwall, which feels only dubiously English.

I'd tick British cos it's easier than thinking about it!

[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.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Actually, you know, it is very unlikely that he was a white Anglo-Saxon. All the genetic data seems to suggest that the population of England is pretty much that that settled here after the last Ice Age, coming up from the refuge in the Basque country - and that the Anglo Saxon invasion was that of an elite who imposed their culture, rather than lots and lots of invaders who drove the [Celtic, except they weren't] inhabitants into Wales and Cornwall.

[lizarfau.livejournal.com]

I'm still a UK citizen, so I'm still entitled to vote. However, I have chosen not to (just as I do at British elections).

However, I am ENGLISH. Not British.

And I'd like to see independence for England. ;)

[kargicq.livejournal.com]

In those questions, I'd probably tick British; a mongrel identity suits me quite well. I acquired UK citizenship having lived here for long enough, originally being a Jerseyman by birth (which led to some interesting discussions when having to declare 'country of birth' for various US officials). My dad's side of the family were a mix of Scots transplanted to the south coast of England in the nineteenth century, and old south-coast stock; my mum's family fled central Europe in the inter-War period and were a thoroughgoing mix of central European nationalities.

[squonk79.livejournal.com]

I say English, because i'm not Scottish or Welsh as far as i know!

And i've always had a horrible feeling that Britain really is just England plus two countries we bullied into it.

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

Or at least mostly British; largely a fairly even mixture of Welsh and English. The remaining third is a mixture of Italian, German, and Jewish, with a sprinkling of Scot and perhaps a little other stuff I've forgotten about.

[skordh.livejournal.com]

Well I'm probably Brythonic-Anglo-Danish then (also not on list) with ancestors from Yorkshire and County Durham.