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>Take English course
>Professor is from England
>He says "Britain isn't REALLY part of Europe, we're our own thing"
Is this a common belief in Britain? What about the rest of Europe? Do they extend this logic out to Iceland and Ireland?
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It's like saying Greenland or the Caribs aren't North American or saying Indonesia or Papua New Guinea isn't Asian.
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>belief

it's a truth, we have very little in common with continentals, exceptions possibly being the dutch and norwegians but even that's stretching it
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>>67878652
we're an island off the coast, we do have a different way of life, culture etc. but we are indeed deeply rooted in european history so don't let anyone tell you we aren't european. we defo are.
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>>67878652
Britain is its own continent.
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>>67878652
Brits are just weirdly arrogant
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>>67878736
you like to believe you are so different rofl
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britain is europe's cuba
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I believe it. Greatest ally is too good to be filthy Euro.
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>>67879302
Fuck off Barnaby Fitzarcher
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>>67879467
They had to, they wouldn't be British otherwise but scandis or French.
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>>67878652
I don't know anyone who thinks that we're not from the continent of Europe.

As for if we're culturally European, I suppose a good amount of people would say that we're not but probably about the same number would say that we are.

Maybe people get 'Europe' mixed up with 'EU'. Not sure but I've always thought of the British Isles as being as European as many places on the mainland. As far as I know, in Norway they call English people 'Crazy Norwegians' or 'Norwegians with their head kicked in'.

I think we're a lot like the Netherlands or Denmark.. probably more like Denmark.
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Brits hate Europe and not so secretly wish the UK floated across the pond to America
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>>67878652
>Is this a common belief in Britain?
no more so than any other European country is "it's own thing", he should probably be fired for being a fucking retard desu
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>>67879670
Not surprising after fucking ourselves over numerous times when saving saving Europeans from their own stupidity only to listen to their endless bitching and inferiority complex for years afterwards.
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>>67878652
>located 35km from mainland Europe
>hurrrr we r totally unique and in no way related to Europe
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>>67879529

What? You're gonna stockpile nukes here in order to worry.. France?
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>>67879783
who are you quoting?
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Their culture isn't that much different from ours. But they tend to conveniently forget we exist.
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>>67879893
We'd take Wales with us.
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>>67879670
>they'd rather be part of an indio and negro continent than Europe
Seems accurate
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>>67878652
>Take Spanish when I lived in Florida in 6th grade.
>Teacher's first lecture is over why we are United Statian, and not American.
>Take it again in High School.
>Argentinian that talks about how they are white.
The world is some funny shit.
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>>67879893

Actually, my friend, according to my "Are Nige World Atlas", we're tucked comfortably under Nova Scotia.
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>>67879953
>>Take Spanish when I lived in Florida in 6th grade.
>learning from a Cuban who's family came here on a makeshift raft
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>>67879783
>35km
wtf it looks way further in a map
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>>67880012
She was actually Colombian, and sorta hot.
I just thought it was odd as a kid that her first fucking lesson was telling us we can't call ourselves America.
Seriously though, my school there was shit. Her lessons were part of homeroom, and I think they just took some hispanic lady who had a degree in anything.
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They're not called the 51st state for nothing, anon.
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>>67880146
Actually it is quite literally for nothing. The only time that ever comes up is when we're not slurping kraut cock and one of their vassal states is upset about it.
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>>67880013

That's what happens when you try to convert measurements into these silly Eurometres, m8.
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>>67880104
She's your typical modern Americanized teacher. Pushes her own agenda because she barely earned a degree and the district needed a teacher.

I once had an Algebra 1 teacher in 9th grade who made sure half her period was dedicated to telling us about how horrible her ex-husband was and that she's doing everything she can to make sure her daughters don't have to go to public school because we're so awful.

I never once took any of my female teachers serious for this very reasons, while I always aced my male teachers classes, especially my history teachers.
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>>67879623
this guy gets it
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>>67880231
male teachers are so rare nowadays, but they're all super fucking based. If they introduced a quota requiring them to be 50% of the teacher body I'm sure test scores would skyrocket but we know that will never happen.
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>>67880297
Indeed. From my experience most female teachers tend to push their own agenda, especially if they're failed mothers who think of their class as their adopted children. Not to mention they're full of false pride.

I once had a 3rd grade teacher who's parents were Czech and loved to give examples about how superior Czechs are (literally, we have a huge Czech and German community here in Texas), and anytime she found out a new classmate was Czech, it was embarrassing for the student who clearly didn't give a fuck.

This is one of the many examples I can give and this is Texas education at it's finest.
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>>67880231
>>67880297
One of my earliest school memories was a male music teacher in like 3rd grade throwing a bitchfit and whining about... something that I don't think any of us actually said.

Meanwhile I can't remember any particularly bad female teachers.
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>>67880231
I've honestly rarely encountered teachers like that.
It could be because I'm not going for a liberal arts degree.
Only professor I've ever had who was like that was this guy teaching a "Social problems" course that me and my two friends took.
He was biased as hell. My friend who constantly disagreed with him got a C in the class, I got a B for walking the thin line between disagreeing and agreeing, while my last friend who just sucked up got an A.
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It requires the person to be sufficiently delusional about their special snowflake national identity that they forget that those kinds of variations in identity, culture, etc. occur all over the region.
Paradoxically people who claim not to be from a region are insisting that there actually is a uniform identity within it.
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>>67880465
Forgot to mention that he also brought out his dating site profile during class while we all sat there afraid to tell him it was up on the projector. He didn't care.
He was one of the saddest people I've ever met.
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>>67880013
We're literally connected to France by a tunnel under the sea. Both Britain and France are constantly penetrating eachother.
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Really wish this "Britain is part of europe" meme would end, its literally just jewish propaganda spread because we're better at being jews then the jews.
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>>67878652
It's not a belief, it's basic fact.
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>tfw even less historically connected to Europe than the UK but European
whoa
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Brits are rapebabies of celts, germans, latinos and scandinavians.

The only way they would be more european is in four years when all their women have whored themselves out to the poles for free EU membership.
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>"island"
>you can literally drive there via chunnel

fucking estonia is more remote than britain
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>>67881124
>latinos
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>>67881188
You can't drive through the tunnel, but I'm with you.
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>>67878705
papua isn't asian
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>>67878652
It's a very "British" thing, but British itself is an identity that you need to choose and accept. There are 5 different national identities in the UK; Scottish, Irish, English, Welsh, and British.

The British are the worst of the 5.
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>take English course with American professor
>she's vegan
>she's a fucking radical feminist at the age of 70 (you fucking get 5 grades deducted if you ever hold out the door or do any act of chivalry)
>she's a speciest, she believes animals are equal to humans, and that the animal butchery happening world wide is similar to the holohoax
>end up barely passing the course with her because she unsurprisingly turned out to be a biased person and failed me for having different opinions
>take the course again with a Lebanese professor this time
>she's surprisingly redpilled, getting high 80s so far in grades

Fuck Americans
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>>67879529
Britain is Europe's Japan
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>>67879594
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>>67880444
I had a math teacher in 6th grade who would spend most of the time telling us we were all disrespectful and immature. He would go on and on about how kids in Turkey were much better in every way.

Guy would send the worst students into the hall literally every day. They began pulling the fire alarm and he couldn't even figure out which one did it since he'd have five of them out there at once.

Got so bad the school installed those ink jets and ruined one of their coats which they threw in the trash. The dumb teacher didn't even look at them enough to know which ones coat was found. They mostly stopped though since they didn't want to get inked.
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>>67879650
What is the reasoning behind such a name?
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>>67879683
I can't wait until you are deported Pietre.
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>>67881992
You know that's a pretty extremist view/person here too, right?
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>>67879302
t. Pierre de Bratwurst
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>>67879893
What eurocuck made your propaganda image? I bet it was that yank twat who moved to Ireland.
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>>67882238
I sure as hell hope so, otherwise I hope Jamal and Jose fuck you over.
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>>67879940
We never said anything about being south American.
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>>67882293
You're exhibiting the exact mentality that you're protesting you don't have.
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>>67879623
I suppose you're right
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>>67882225
>Pietre
what nationality is this even supposed to be
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>>67882350
Suck my japs eye, eurocuck.
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>>67882582
I'll tear it aff, and puncture it 12 times in a ring before nailing it to your forehead.
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>>67882725
Poof.
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>>67882774
You're the one wanting me to suck your dick. If that's no gay, I don't know what is.
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>>67882314
>Jamal and Jose
There's not too many of those here in Vermont.
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>>67878652

Because they are superior to continentals
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>>67882822
Fuck off, shirtlifter.
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>>67883079
The fuck does that even mean?
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>>67883161
I knew you were a yuropeen.
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>>67883239
Aye, so are you, assuming your flag to be true and you aren't some kind of "tourist".
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Most of my teachers were red pilled as hell.
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@67883303


That was an awful insult, but you bore me now.

Go and be a remoaner somewhere else, toilet cleaner.
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>>67883518
>Doesn't know how to reply
kek. also, not cleaning your own toilet, the only excuse for that is to not own one, Raj.
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>>67882343
you want to be south american so bad that you had to stole that argie island
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we like to think we're not

but deep down we know we are
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@67883640
>First day in Britain
>First day on the chon

It's like poetry.
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>>67883671
That b8 is poor.
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It's called exceptionalism, it's the most anoying of anglo traits.
Russians do the same thing.
Fuck em both in that regard.
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>>67883979
Bulgaria more like Smugaria.
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>>67883901
>Britain
Never been to Britain.
I'm a Scot.
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>>67883979

>He has nothing to be proud of

Laugh at him lads
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>>67884073
We invented dropping bombs from plains.
You invented dropping turds in marts.
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>>67884048
m8...
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@67884048
And suddenly the cuckoldry makes sense.
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>>67878652
I know at least that the English and Welsh don't see themselves as Euros.

People here say "I went to Europe" when they come back from Disneyland or Mallorca.

Gibraltar is a weird case in which they are even more patriotic than British Isles Brits, but they do very much see themselves as European - UK and EU flags everywhere.
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>>67878652
We're special snowflakes, you should call him out on that fact we're just another Christian country formally a part of the Roman empire that speaks a German, Latin, French mix language and the fact there is 5 miles of water in between Britain and the continent doesn't change that
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>>67884512
>People here say "I went to Europe"
This is ridiculous if it's true
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>>67885840
Yeah, from my limited experience, it's true.
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I don't mind the sentiment, it's the stupidity that hurts. In Sweden we don't feel European either - That doesn't make us not European. Fucking retards.
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>>67885933
>>67885840
What is wrong with that? Scandis stay it when they go tot he continent too.
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>>67878652
Yes. continentals are weird and different
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Living on a crowded island causes people to become autistic and develop delusions of grandeur.
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People get confused because we refer to the continent as Europe, so we say "going to Europe".

It's just short for continental Europe, we don't actually believe we're not geographically apart from it.
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>>67878652
"Europe the country" i.e. the EU as a superstate, is the most retarded thing conceived by globalists as of yet.
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>>67886284
>MSM told him "Europeanism" is an obligation
>so that's what he believes

good Goy
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Racially, religiously, linguistically and culturally we are Europeans.

But we have water separating us that leaves us isolated from the others and we've always been an independent people who have different political beliefs to mainland Europe
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>>67888208
>A bloo bloo bloo Europe is going alt-right and I don't want to be a part of it

Your day will come, turk
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>>67888231
>5 miles of water
I've hiked for longer distances than that.
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>>67888724
literally kys retard
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Theres something wrong with Brits
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>>67883901
please fuck off to jobcenter you inbred chav
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British are deluded arrogant cunts, everyone knows that.
We have a huge British immigration problem in South island, they come here and treat us kiwis like we're inferior, and they are they are hardcore SJWs, they make kiwi cucks look redpilled.
They leave their dead island and bring the same bullshit that killed their island here and think they're better than us because they are more """"""enlightened"""""
To any britcucks who are thinking of moving to South Island: FUCK OFF WE'RE FULL
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>>67888922
t. Abdul 'Germanslayer' Mohammed
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>>67889206
I know exactly what you are talking about
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>>67889206
>they come here and treat us kiwis like we're inferior
Seeing as how you're literally our dregs, it's not hard to guess why.
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>>67882293
>>67882350
>>67882582
>>67882725
>>67882774
>>67882822
>The British
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>>67889281
why so rude and hurtful
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>>67889206
So they are Californians?

Time to gas the Shitish Isles
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>>67889358
More like Portlanders

>>67889281
Your arrogance proves my point
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>>67889439
>Your arrogance proves my point
Well yeah, I didn't exactly deny it, did I mate.
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>>67878652
m8 this is the basis of Anglo psychology, and has been a major underlying factor in British politics/foreign policy since the end of the 100 Years War.

Ask yourself why Britain has consistently favoured its interests in respect of Orientals or non-Europeans against fraternity with continental Europe.
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>>67878652
I completely agree with the professor's idea.
t. an islander from the far east
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>>67889465
Sorry your ancestors were betas who didn't have the balls to sail the seas for freedom settling remote lands where no white man had trod before
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>>67889637
Those ancestors you're talking about are my people, you dumb cunt.
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>>67889694
Ummm who were the stay at home cucks slaving away in factories and who were the alphas leaving tyranny to form their own free nations.
With the logic you're using we're all black as my distant ancestors left Africa.
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>>67889881
>alphas leaving tyranny
>alphas running away

lol
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>>67889881
Absolutely piss-poor logic comprehension you've got there, lad.
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>>67889915
Sailing the seas to settle distant lands is more alpha than slaving away under corporate masters
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>>67878652
Until 1066 we were pretty much a Nordic country

William the Conqueror dragged us into continental Catholic politics, which characterised us for most of the Middle Ages

In the 1530s Henry VIII severed our link with the Catholic church and created a new national religious body, the Church of England. This was pretty revolutionary and helped establish a sense of removal from the continent

The real reason we consider ourselves separate from Europe however, is because of the Anglosphere. Starting in the Tudor period we created a policy of overseas colonisation while the other European countries were killing each other in various delusional and self-destructive attempts to dominate the continent. As such we feel closer to our Anglo, English-speaking ex-colonies like the US and Australia than our dumb, smelly continental neighbours
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>>67890371
>The real reason we consider ourselves separate from Europe however, is because of the Anglosphere. Starting in the Tudor period we created a policy of overseas colonisation while the other European countries were killing each other in various delusional and self-destructive attempts to dominate the continent. As such we feel closer to our Anglo, English-speaking ex-colonies like the US and Australia than our dumb, smelly continental neighbours
But they also had colonies?
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>>67890371
Awww thanks!
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>>67890371
By this logic, Americans aren't American. Because they interact more with Europeans than Mexicans.

>british logic
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>>67890506
Yes but they were always more focused on their European conquests. Italy and Germany of course were only unified in the 19th century. France was still waging European wars of conquest in the 19th century and Spain only unified in the 16th century by which time our overseas empire was already burgeoning. By the 19th century only Britain's colonial empire was relevant and successful, and to this day we're the only European country to have good relations and meaningful cultural ties to our ex-colonies

It's basically down to our geographical position, the fact that we became a unified, centralised country long before anyone else, the fact that English is the lingua franca, and the fact that we belong to a brotherhood of English-speaking countries with English-influenced constitutions that we feel enitled to a distinct identity separate from the European continent
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>>67890863
Interesting, thank you.
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>>67890863
>yfw soon the EU will implode and the english speaking peoples will completely dominate the world once again
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>>67881380
It's part of Asia.
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>>67888863
English Channel is the best channel of all time
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I think Europe isn't a single thing. There are different countries, cultures and mentalities and laws etc.
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The UK being a little "off" compared to the mainland European countries is a constant theme throughout history. When the Celts in mainland Europe were already experimenting with iron chainmail and republican forms of government, the British Celts still fought on chariots and painted themselves with woad. When central Europe was an empire under Charlemagne, the UK was a collection of warring petty kingdoms. When the Frankish empire disintegrated, England and Scotland unified themselves. When mainland Europe picked sides in the wars of religion (catholic-protestant), the English created their own branch of christianity. When the multi-ethnic empires of Europe were dismantled (the Habsburg, Russian and Ottoman empires), the peoples of Great Britain held fast to their supra-national identity as British.
In the end I think the people of the UK dislike the concept of a common European identity because they already have a supra-national identity: the British identity. Embracing a new European identity would conflict with the importance of "Britishness" in their culture. People would consider themselves English, Scottish or Welsh first, European second and British third. Which would go against 300 years of cultural tradition.
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>>67891014
Welcome to mass general grouping pal.
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>>67891067
My impression was that Scottish and Northern Irish people don't think of themselves as British?
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>>67891139
Why have they both voted to remain British then?
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>>67891067
Working class people consider themselves English/Scottish/Welsh, then British, then European

The upper middle class Guardian-reading intelligentsia call themselves British, then European, then English/Scottish/Welsh

True red-blooded patriots call themselves British, then English/Scottish/Welsh, then European
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>>67890623
>>67890882
No problem my burger friends ;)
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>>67890863
>we're the only European country to have good relations and meaningful cultural ties to our ex-colonies
Definitely not
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>>67891267
Are you being ironic? Sending special forces to assassinate African presidents you don't like doesn't count as cultural exchange
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>>67890983
Actually papuan flora and fauna is for the most part Austrolasian, aka they have marsupials.
Aka not Asain.
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>>67878705
>>67890983
>he doesn't know about the Wallace Line
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>>67891298
I'm not we have real cultural ties and exchange, google "Francophonie".
There's a reason so much people in North Africa still speak french and Morocco immensely value the transimission of french language.
Sub saharan Africa also send us all their skilled students.
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>>67889543
FUCK OFF NETOUYO
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>>67891561
I see you like Africans
Good.
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>>67890371
>Until 1066 we were pretty much a Nordic country

Delusional!

You were west Germanic, not north Germanic!

>>67878736
>We have very little in common with continentals

How can you talk about the most culturally diverse continent in existence like it's culturally homogenous? Bosnia and Spain don't have a lot to do with each other.

>exceptions possibly being the dutch and norwegian

Norwegian???

Also:

What is France?
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