What would you consider to be Britishness ?
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Putting up with the rain[when we get it]\nWe queue properly\nWe are tolerant [ every one else is here]\nNobody else does proper custatrd,Roast beef Yorkshire pud
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It would be a country: England
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NO, NO, and a thousand times: NO! Despite the comments I made answering a question on a different issue earlier, I wish to set the record straight and state that I am proud to call myself a citizen of the United Kingdom. I always will admit to being a fiercely proud Englishman, but I have a great affinity with Scotland and Wales, and I do love visiting both countries. I always wear a red rose and red & white ribbons on 23rd April (St George's day), but a close friend of mine always wears a daffodil or leek badge on March 1st (being a proud Welshman), and we always wish each other well on our respective Saint's days. Being Northumbrian-born, I have always loved many things Scottish, and my family and I always have a haggis on Burns' Night (we love it). So it's fair to say that despite devolution, the UK is still as cohesive as ever. God save the Queen.\n\np.s., Oh and Starshafter 1, kindly get off your high horse. We don't all hate Scotland or it's people. Be proud of who you are and learn to laugh at it, and yourselves too. We can take a bit of flack from you guys, so please learn to take a bit too.
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As in people from England?\nThey speak... ENGLISH...
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i would say brittian or america.  brittian cause the accents on that whole continent are awesome.\nand america,  there is no way i would go and live there now, but it seems to be the land of real opportunity.
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No country is completely tolerant, but the British make a conscious effort to be so, it is part of their heritage. Just try to bait them with some fool question here on YA and you will hardly get a peep out of them. I know, I've tried!
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I agree, I'm from the US, but I can see the problems starting across the pond.  We were a nation based on LEGAL immigration.  UK has always been a semi-homogeneous society.  It doesn't have to be lilly-white, but I can see that the openness of Euro countries is taking a toll on national identity
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Hi my duck.\n\nWhich British accent do you like? There's many.  Scouse and Geordie are my faves.  My family all sound like pirates 'cos they're from the Southwest.  I speak R.P. (kind of like the BBC)
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british accents are pretty tasty...I like english boys!
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1. You are proper and unoffensive.\n\n2. You have adorable accents.\n\n3. You have lovely bone china. I did buy a full tea service from Royal Albert -- gorgeous! (But for dinner, I went for the Limoges.)\n\n4. You enjoy tea. Americans assiciate tea with England, even though it's not produced there. (Hardly anyone associates the Far East with tea.) And the simple pouring of tea is fascinating, probably because Americans are generally unfamiliar with it, having had coffee for so long. Even though every stratum of society in England drinks tea, Americans associate aristocracy and good fortune with it. Also, to an American, there is only black, green, and "herbal" tea, whereas an Englishman is familiar with quite a large selection of teas.\n\n5. You make beautiful automobiles, but you need a good electrician on the plant. I owned a Jaguar, and now I have a Land Rover. The Land Rover rolled over and just about killed me, but I still think that the style of its body has a certain charm that other well-running European cars have never had. \n\n6. Although according to European culinary standards, you could loosen up and be more creative in the kitchen, we Americans are much like you, so we can relate to you. All I know is that you like ale, batter fried fish and chips, with vinegar. (That is what the English pubs in the US serve.) The vinegar is quite shocking to an American, but intriguing too. (We use lemon juice.) Also, your understanding of beer is much greater than that of a typical American. We try, but all we know is one variety -- beer. You could probably intimidate an American with your knowledge of beer styles.\n\n7. I think that you wear shockingly bold colors for such an understated people (no subtlety there), but you can still be quiet with that boldness somehow.\n\n8. We romanticize the Royal Family -- it's something that we normally just read about in storybook fairy tales.\n\n9. I have great respect for your banking system, and for your legal system. Our laws are based on what England had taught the settlers, with an extra dose of fairness.\n\n10. We like your rock music -- it's very artistic and intriguing. English musicians think that they made it really big when they have an album in the United States, and we love having those musicians come here. Unfortunately, I don't think that we get as many of your bands as we used to. I don't know why that is. Maybe Americans have become more cunning at marketing more American music, creating a smoke screen hiding the deeply artistic talent of the English rock musician. But I'm not really certain about any of this.\n\n11. And last, your reserved manner can be intimidating on occasion. It's possible that that stems from the fact that, although we both speak English, there is a tremendous number of words and phrases that are completely different, which creates a soft barrier. It's like speaking a foreign language. I would certainly be interested to hear your perception of this.
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i think that our character is basically tolerant, humourous, religiously and democratically apathetic and yet, strangely, determined.  i think that if our status quo is threatened our innate ( as much as a hybrid race can have an innate character ) but well hidden belicosity emerges.  things that provoke us are political and religious extremism ( including that dumbass american evangelical christianity ), aggression of any sort by others and challenge to our common belief in freedom of speech.  we're alright really, doing fine.  some may hate us at the moment but we'll win them round .  i'm proud to be british.  proud to be english as much as that matters and, here's where i'll lose even some of my fellow english... proud to be european.
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England is a part of Great Britain.
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I'm wondering what English women are like because I watch Absolutely Fabulous and Keeping Up Appearances & I'm getting some strange ideas about you Brits. <Tongue firmly planted in cheek>
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I'd say anglo-canadian would be most correct.
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There lots of different accents in England. The best thing is to live here, that way you you can pick the one you like best.
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Absolutely British.  As in they hold a British Passport !\n\nThere is no animosity between England and Scotland like there is between England and Ireland because England didn't occupy and segregate a part of Scotland as they did in Northern Ireland.  Secondly, there is no religious warring factions in Scotland as in the case of the Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland.
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BRITISH!!!!!!!!\n\n\ni love british people....\n\n\n\n\n"mah deah, would youhh come ovahh an join mey foh tea?"