What nationality are you?

[James not Bond]

Freudian slip on the spelling of Scottisht (sic) !!!!!!!!!!!!

[KennySue]

I'm not English - although I speak the language like a native.

My name (Kenneth) is Scottish but I'm not.

If I was born a hundred years ago I would have been British even though I wouldn't have been born in Britain. (It's an Empire thing.)

I'm a Colonial - which isn't as bad as a foreigner but it's close.

Just a Kiwi (but not a fruit).

And I don't need to be Welsh because we've got better sheep here in New Zealand.



Seen this documentary?

100% English

Eight people who believe themselves to be purely English are given a DNA test to reveal their true heritage, with some surprising results.

From Lucy Mangan's review in The Guardian:

If the tape had not been clearly labelled as part of the Dispatches series, I think I would have assumed that 100% English (Channel 4) was the first fruit of a marvellously fertile collaboration between Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Armando Iannucci. They could certainly have come up with the premise: take a handful of proudly English individuals each convinced of their purely Anglo-Saxon heritage, then confront them with DNA evidence to the contrary, sit back and observe their responses. But I think I would eventually have rumbled the documentary nature of the programme, on the grounds that you just couldn't make up most of the participants.

Carol Thatcher, for one. She learned that she was 24% Middle Eastern in origin. She looked disconcerted. "Do you mean Mediterranean?" she asked hopefully. No, said presenter Andrew Graham-Dixon. He meant Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Libya, places like that. Thatcher paused. Then she rallied. Recalling her brother's ill-fated 1982 attempt to drive across the Saharan desert, she whooped: "Mark will be astonished to know that he ought to have done better!" If it's any comfort, Carol, I believe that the ability to whoop is considered by many to be the sine qua non of Englishness.

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And what about this:

Dipso, fatso, bingo, ASBO, Tesco

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[Jonboy]

WegieBoy 1st Scottish 2nd British 3rd

[Snake Diamond]

I'm Welsh, British (in THAT order).

Also have some heritage from Ireland, Scotland, USA, England, Western Europe (no specific order).

[stripeysydney]

Definitely a self-proclamation. I'd like to think in my D.N.A. there are bits of English, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, a bit of Roman and with a bit of luck a slice of African; I really don't care.
Just so long as there's no French, now that I would be annoyed about.

[Dave Wells]

Always ENGLISH never British me. Nothing against anybody else, just like it to be known I'm English.

[stripeysydney]

So how do you explain the ginger hair Dave?

[bristolian]

Born in Scotland, two Scottish parents, live in Bristol, support Scotland first, England second, England at cricket, Scottish and British in that order. Always have a slight suspicion of someone who proclaims the are English in that chest-thumping style. An Aussie mate of mine always says people in England are more wedded to their regional identity and that 'the only time the English get worked up is to fight and to watch football'.