Originally posted by anarchywrksbest
A word of advice, don't call people from the Republic British They won't like it
Some of us in the north are'nt too fussed about it either.
Originally posted by anarchywrksbest
A word of advice, don't call people from the Republic British They won't like it
Thx by the reverence.Originally posted by WonderStuFF
I'll save a lot of time here Portuguese..I have read through your'e post several times and to put it simply...I disagree with you.
I'm sorry to put it so briefly after you spent so much time writing all of that but there really isn't anything else to say.
Yes ellie this is dragging on to no avail but i at least thought that Portuguese deserved an answer for posting no matter how brief.
WS~
Originally posted by emu
portuguese when the hell did portugal own all of africa and all of asia they never owned that much.
Originally posted by phoenix_night
i don't know much about this topic, but i'm sure portugal did have quite an empire at one point and was rather powerful.
Originally posted by gael
Some of us in the north are'nt too fussed about it either.
Originally posted by gael
I think you got it back to front there phoenix_night. N.I is polically British but not geographically. Ireland its self is not part of Britian.
The origins of the name Britian come from the Roman Britiannia. Scotland would be Caladionia, and Ireland would be Hibernia.
The British isles was a term that was applied much latter and was meant as a political term. Geographically it makes no sense.
Originally posted by zippy
Curt,
Are you a Scottish Nationalist?
Originally posted by Portuguese
Thx by the reverence.
Hope to have helped somehow, although you have puzzled me with your post.
I, myself, am from a former-empire and Portuguese ppl always fell pitty that Port is no so great as it once was (even though Sid Meier don't recognises it...). It's sad, but we can only accept it and work for the best of our country and the world in general...
There should be a smiley for :saudade: to use him here.
I wonder if US-UK fellows, or others, know what that means...
Nothing that a good 'ole fashion burning at the stake can't cure.Just curious, but is there something wrong with Scottish Nationalists?
This is just pure nonsense. People from Northern Ireland and Gilbrator are British, end of story.people from northern ireland are british in the same sense that people from canada are american.
UK and Britain are pretty much interchangable.northern ireland isn't part of great britain, it's part of the uk but not britain.
Originally posted by MrPresident
This is just pure nonsense. People from Northern Ireland and Gilbrator are British, end of story.
Originally posted by MrPresident
UK and Britain are pretty much interchangable.
Originally posted by phoenix_night
no, i haven't. ireland is part of the british isles, just as canada is part of (north) america.
but politically people from northern ireland aren't british. northern ireland isn't part of great britain, it's part of the uk but not britain.
people from northern ireland are british in the same sense that people from canada are american.
Originally posted by MrPresident
This is just pure nonsense. People from Northern Ireland and Gilbrator are British, end of story.
UK and Britain are pretty much interchangable.
Originally posted by gael
Canada is a part of the American continent, but politically they are Canadian.
Politically the people in N.Ireland are British. N.Ireland is part of the UK/Great Britian, as in 'greater' Britian, an extension of Britian.
Geographically Ireland is not a part of Britain. The British isles is a political term that is used to lump all the region together under British/English authority.
If your going to use the Latin terms to decribe the islands, Britian stops around the Sottish border (Caladonia). Ireland (Hibernia)is'nt even a part of the island. Most Irish people don't recognise the term British isles.
Ps. I hope I don't come across as being anti-English here, I'm not.
But to me and many others the British Isles is an outdated term, but it will still always be called that.
A sizable amount of people from Turkey would disagree that they are Turkish but that doesn't change the fact that they are. Everyone in Northern Ireland is Northern Irish unless Ireland reclaims that country.Considering a sizeable amount of people from Northern Ireland would disagree with that statement, indeed, flatly reject it, I think that it's a bit presumptuous.
They probably are the only ones who are able to see any importance in the UKOriginally posted by D' Artagnan
The funny thing about this thread is that only UKers seem to post here