Fab Confab: British vs English (Part I)

Posted by Happy Homemaker UK<br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNIqZAf5IauoLwg_c__arDmq1rP2vyFf_omlP3XPqplsJ3mW0HjqaqOwxQTgCMqqPBoYGlostViHP38nJPKov_7B9tdLwaIXuoYJIs0HL62qaYq1XCzIieP_JEiaS6_T1xdGvmjVynSdI/s1600/4145359_tuMOsqby_c-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNIqZAf5IauoLwg_c__arDmq1rP2vyFf_omlP3XPqplsJ3mW0HjqaqOwxQTgCMqqPBoYGlostViHP38nJPKov_7B9tdLwaIXuoYJIs0HL62qaYq1XCzIieP_JEiaS6_T1xdGvmjVynSdI/s640/4145359_tuMOsqby_c-1.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />(Source: <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/4145359/">Pinterest</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br />Thank you for joining me for another <a href="http://happyhomemakeruk.blogspot.com/2011/02/first-fab-confab.html">Fab Confab</a> :)<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">When I moved here, I asked if the United Kingdom was a country. Unanimously, the reply was 'yes'. Then I'd ask (not to be 'cheeky'), then what is England? I'd get blank stares, unsure how to answer this because they didn't know. One English friend sent me a map (below) after she did some research (thank you!).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Perhaps no place is more complicated to describe geopolitically. According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_kingdom">Wikipedia</a>, I live in England, which is just one of the four <i>countries</i> within the <i>country</i> of the United Kingdom. Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland being the other three. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Great Britain is the name of the island I live on. In the Olympics, I'll be cheering for Great Britain (or is it the UK?). And for the US too, of course. And when I buy something online, I scroll to United Kingdom for payment and shipping. Here is a map to clear it up at bit. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgClD48CqHqntvLkxAcJANbzR6NzTcfmCwnTX0ssc3eSNGhlWq8QbVwZwZGZkfMVm_Y9hr1BacoFByryVTDIRdNGlK70AQ-HO71jXDj-_Lh0Oj2UESGJO0ddT3AH3fvjRp-nrm-82tEdMs/s1600/517px-British_Isles_Euler_diagram.svg.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgClD48CqHqntvLkxAcJANbzR6NzTcfmCwnTX0ssc3eSNGhlWq8QbVwZwZGZkfMVm_Y9hr1BacoFByryVTDIRdNGlK70AQ-HO71jXDj-_Lh0Oj2UESGJO0ddT3AH3fvjRp-nrm-82tEdMs/s320/517px-British_Isles_Euler_diagram.svg.png" width="274" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminology_of_the_British_Isles">Wikipedia</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So I posed the question to two English blogger friends, 'What does it really mean to be British versus English'? Like many foreigners, I throw these words around interchangeably. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Response from Sarah of <a href="http://moderncountrystyle.blogspot.com/">Modern Country Style</a>: </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlAfa6HerMkh38b9BMWCDurlanGmY6DIMM-sQ1aRknyaChXQA20JNsU3_1p0AozJzYWV7eP-TbYzlEWC7ypGzmZtlzPuicQ7ETh6owfU3P7G0DOJPRBu88egxnQXa8aJt91SKymLX-L_8/s1600/6476655_7DOwmxZn_c-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlAfa6HerMkh38b9BMWCDurlanGmY6DIMM-sQ1aRknyaChXQA20JNsU3_1p0AozJzYWV7eP-TbYzlEWC7ypGzmZtlzPuicQ7ETh6owfU3P7G0DOJPRBu88egxnQXa8aJt91SKymLX-L_8/s200/6476655_7DOwmxZn_c-1.jpg" width="177" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />Source: <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/6481040/">Pinterest</a></td></tr></tbody></table><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Do I feel English or do I feel British? I feel both in equal measures and at different times. Confused? Me too!<br /><br />I think the best analogy I can come up with is that of family-life.</span></span></i><br /><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></i><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">When I was young and my little brother was annoying me, I had no problem giving him a bop on the arm. But woe betide ANYONE who tried to do the same to him in the playground at school. I'd be there in a flash to defend him.</span></span></i></div><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></i><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">And so it is in Britain. When the different countries making up the United Kingdom, squabble and occasionally have a bit of a scrap, then I feel English...but if another outside country came along and tried to biff Scotland or Wales or Northern Ireland then I'd be there in the twinkling of an eye to stand alongside my country.</span></span></i></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><i>And then within England, there's the North/South divide...and within the South, it's 'which county are you in?', and within Oxfordshire, 'which town'? And so it goes on.....and on!!</i></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Sarah and I actually met yesterday for tea and Indian samosas. She is just as bright, smiley, and sparkly in person as she is through her blog. Thank you, Sarah, for sharing your take on being British vs. English :)  And your very English words are always a treat!</span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Next week, I will feature another blogger's view on this topic (<a href="http://happyhomemakeruk.blogspot.com/2011/03/fab-confab-british-vs-english-part-ii.html">here</a>). </span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">Please feel free to join the conversation in the comment section. Thank you for reading!! </span></span></div></div><br /><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54489/35/2FD701A88E1AB920883327F28E3E4BF9.png" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px !important; border-color: initial !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-style: initial !important; border-top-width: 0px !important;" /></a>

Fab Confab: British vs English (Part I)

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