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Armatik, stop, now, please. You're spouting idiocy and you know it.
Posted by: Armatik
I would hate that, but you've got to take into consideration that Canada and the United States are huge countries. England is an island, and the rest of the countries in the United Kingdom are even smaller than it.
Though I don't see why it matters that much, it's not like people who aren't from the UK/England really see any difference between England and UK or Great Britain.
England is not an island. England is a country on the island of Great Britain, the island of Great Britain being part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It's a united kingdom, of seperate countries. Tell a scot he's a brit and he'll probably nut you. National identities are extremely strong. The point we're trying to make is that that list of countries is exceedingly short-sighted. Britons only have the choice of "United Kingdom", which bundles the scots, welsh, english and northern irish all under one title. By the same note the Irish living in the republic only have "Ireland", which makes no differential between Northern Ireland and the Republic. You might not care, but to the people it involves (a sizable chunk of the userbase, i might add) it's extremely vexing. Then, to top it all off, we're forced to use the short and informal "United Kingdom", rather than the full "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". It doesn't matter that no one from Americania sees a difference between the constituant states, because we do, as does anyone else with a mite of interest about anything outside their own borders.
[Edited on 8/20/2006]