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The UK ishttps://pics3.city-data.com/forum/images/editor/separator.gif an island off the coast of Northwestern Europe. It's not IN Western Europe. Nobody but advocates of the "Remain" campaign have ever called themselves "Europeans". The British are not Europeans.
Oh, please. That is like saying that Sicily is not part of Italy, or that Japan is not part of Asia.
If the UK is not European, then pray tell what continent does it belong to?
Hint: Google "What continent does the UK belong to?"
The UK is an island off the coast of Northwestern Europe. It's not IN Western Europe. Nobody but advocates of the "Remain" campaign have ever called themselves "Europeans". The British are not Europeans.
The UK is an island nation, but it is still genetically, culturally and geographically European.
Because "facts" don't need insult. If you want a discussion then keep it honest.
A bit rich, considering you have consistently responded to remain supporters with "you lost, get over it". But ignore my 'insult', and lets discuss the facts I mentioned first.
Oh, please. That is like saying that Sicily is not part of Italy, or that Japan is not part of Asia.
If the UK is not European, then pray tell what continent does it belong to?
Hint: Google "What continent does the UK belong to?"
You are just being nit-picky.
Well if you want to get technical, there really is no such continent called Europe. That's a social designation, not a geographic one. The continent is Eurasia.
And it seems to me the people in say Germany and France look at the English as Anglos, not Europeans.
Well if you want to get technical, there really is no such continent called Europe. That's a social designation, not a geographic one. The continent is Eurasia.
And it seems to me the people in say Germany and France look at the English as Anglos, not Europeans.
Anglos is short for Anglo-Saxon. They are European. There are also many UK natives with Norman or Basque heritage.
In this context it means English speakers. Closer aligned to Americans, Canada, Australia, than Europe.
The UK is more culturally aligned to Europe than the US (a lot of US culture is completely alien to the UK in modern times). I'd say the closest culturally to the UK are New Zealand, Ireland, Australia, Netherlands, France (especially SE England) in that order.
Well if you want to get technical, there really is no such continent called Europe. That's a social designation, not a geographic one. The continent is Eurasia.
Yes, believe it or not, I knew that! However, I was sticking with the word choice of the posters in this thread so far.
The UK is an island off the coast of Northwestern Europe. It's not IN Western Europe. Nobody but advocates of the "Remain" campaign have ever called themselves "Europeans". The British are not Europeans.
The British don't even consider themselves to be called British first.
I'm English and then British in much the same way as most self-respecting Scots or Welsh people would consider themelves to be British after their native country.
Few people I know consider themselves to be Europeans. Of Europe maybe and with a tremendous liking for much of the place.
But historically Britain's island status has always made us feel slightly different about the continent than mainland Europe.
Plus the fact that with the help of the Allies we did liberate rather a lot of the place during the last world war - that always seemed to be conveniently forgotten when various tinpot EU politicians, often rewarded with plum jobs in Brussels after failing magnificently in their own countries, lectured Blighty on its role in Europe.
When Nigel Farage and the Brexit Party were told to leave the European parliament " and take your flags with you " this week I wondered how many of those bloated bureacrats and freeloading politicians remembered that in 1944 when British tanks rolled into Brussels the local citizens were delighted to fly the Union Jack.
The woman giving the orders for Farage and co to leave was Irish - the country whose President was the first person through the doors of the German Embassy in Dublin to sign the Book of Condolences opened up after the death of Herr Hitler.
And the country that Britain bailed out to the tune of £3.5billion a few years ago when the country went bust and there was no money in the ATMs.
The Irish always were ungrateful scrotes.
We are so much better off being out of the EU.
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