Comment Re:Offensive language (Score 1) 240
I'm from London. I hate it when Americans refer to me as British. I am not British. The only pople I've met that call themselves British are 1) Irish Prostestants 2) members of the British National Party. I'm English.
Strange that, I'm English but routinely refer to myself as British and I'm not in either of the two groups you mentioned. I only really refer to myself as English when I'm talking to non-English British. One can have a number of overlapping identities and refer to them according to the context (in global usenet groups I tend to see myself as "European"), rigidly sticking to one identity is, IMHO, close to the nationalism that you seem to deride.
