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Decimus (Offline)
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12-13-2010, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by NanteNa View Post
Why do you hate being called 'British'? That would be like 'Oh I'm Danish, but I HATE being called a European or a Scandinavian girl!'
Well... (nationalist) politics can be rather... confusing in the United Kingdom, partly due to a lack of a written constitution. Suffice to say, there's a deep-seated rivalry between the Scots and the English, possibly due to wars in the past. (And let's not get started on [association] football.) Scotland itself also has a separate Parliament, and there have been movements advocating for Scottish independence.

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