Originally posted by Knight-Dragon
I didn't know that. Hmmmm, so it's still part of the official name for the UK. I had apparently thought the British dropped off the 'Great' part fr 'Great Britain', going by the news and stuff, a long time ago.
Well, you learn something new everyday .... Now I know the British still consider themselves Great and beyond others, but in such a quiet inconspicious manner that an ignorant person such as myself didn't know it. Thanks for the info.
So I am an idiot now, am I?
So what language are you writing/speaking now? Is it per chance the evolved modern-day language of the Anglo-Saxons? Sure the descendants of the Celts still abound in Wales, Scotland and Ireland but let's be realistic. The descendants of the Germanic Anglo-Saxons rule in the British Isles.
Going by your logic of whoever first saw a land shall rule it forever more, then the British isles today would have been ruled by the descendants of the Romanized Celts and be speaking Gaelic or Welsh. Sadly, things like that don't happen in real life. Same with the Falkland Islands.
PS I don't have problems with you except for you calling the Argentinians stinking, fascist and murderous.
Now that you've buried the hatchet so shall I. Peace.
In your country, Singapore there are considerable minority groups, like your country are powers shared among all the people therefore no single peoples/ethnic group/nationality rule over another.
In fact English majority in terms of electoral power have less. Scotland and Wales have two parliaments-Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly and the British Houses of Parliament. The english, however, only have the British Houses of Parliament to appeal to.
Also, there is no real difference in are country in terms of ethnicity. Most, if not all British people have a bit of Celtic and Germanic in them from countless Celtic, Pict, Angle, Saxon, Jute and Viking raids. (Vikings should be classed as Germanic as scandinavia was originally home to the teutonic tribes who became Goths, Vikings, Angles etc. etc. Until they spread round most places where celts once lived.
Also as 8 million Irish people live in Britain, mainly in London and many Scots and the Welsh they are spread far and wide, many people I know (I live in London) have a bit welsh, scottish and irish in them.
Wales and Scotland are giving more per head in pounds from the government. In fact scottish are one and half times more subsidised than the English, but us English understand we can't let one place be poor and the other rich, distributing the wealth of are great nation is honourable and intelligent thing to do. To hold are nation together against the savage and macabre continental Europeans.
So instead of think as the British as just the English of Anglo-Saxon language (that says nothing of ancestry or ethnicity).
Britain is happy mixture of Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings, Celts, Picts, Normans, Jews and many other peoples from around Europe and beyond. Who share their vote equally in the mother of all parliaments.
P.S.Nobody thinks of seperating the isles in Britain except those ****ing idiot scottish nationalists who don't understand how much there a strain on British resources, that includes my uncle.

But the scots are vital for are nation, after all it wasn't just the English who created the British Empire and made are nation what it is.
PSS Singapore must have benefitted from being a British colony, after all the British built the vital port to make it one of the greatest nations in Asia.
Oh yeah, before I forget, I said the Argentines were murderous fascists, I was right: isn't it the conquerors who decide history.
Also, before some idiot American starts quoting the massively historically inaccurate "Braveheart" movie (Some historians called counter-historical or "anti-historical").
We don't surpress are "Celtic" minority, thats all American bull****.
1)The Scots and the Welsh have more constitutional power.
2)Most people in England are celtic in origin.
3)Quite a lot Scottish people have Viking names therefore can not be called Celtic. (Irish also have some Viking "blood" in them.