Sunday, 4 September 2011

UK, Great Britain, England... explained

In the past this was always somewhat confusing to me...What is the difference between the UK, Great Britain and England? And how do Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland fit in? At work, I would use them interchangeably as others around me did, and my assumption was that it had to do with Scotland and Northern Ireland and Wales' relationship with England and how they're all defined. But I couldn't be bothered to actually look it up.

I came across this short but information packed video on an expat blog and it does a great job, in my opinion, of summarizing the lands of the Queen. With helpful visuals as well as detail, I thought I'd spread this youtube video further in the blogosphere but pay attention and turn the volume up because this guy talks a mile a minute. 


Living here, I've definitely heard and read enough to get a lesson in the opinions on what people should be called. British? English? Don't say a Scottish person is British, even though they technically are. They prefer not to be lumped together with their English neighbors to the south. A lot of the English definitely feel the same way and don't define themselves as British because they're SO clearly different from the Welsch and Scottish. They are English, thankyouverymuch.

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