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  • Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Can someone do one for terminology? Is calling people British mainly socially acceptable? I imagine the exception is the Irish from Ireland, but those from northern Ireland may give that a pass?

    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      I’d think calling Scot a Brit is like calling Peruvian an American. Technically true but kinda rude

      • smeg@feddit.uk
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        1 year ago

        Depends on their own views on the union. Don’t go lumping people together as all having the same opinion now!

    • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      northern Ireland may give that a pass?

      Never push a national identity onto someone from Northern Ireland. Because that’s also a political Identity

      In general British is a national identity. English/Scottish/Welsh would be a cultural identity.

      You would call them what they say they are.

    • ramble81@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Call someone from Scotland British and see how that works out for you….

      • smeg@feddit.uk
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        Going by the last polls it’s about an equal chance whether they’d approve or not