Aneirin
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From: Tamaris
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Yes, I agree with that, as even in my youth, the two terms were interchangeable, I never identified as English, British being the without question accepted term. But, as I got older, the nationalistic tendancies of the Welsh and the Scots assaulted my ideas and there my change of identity to English. Although I am not particularly enamoured with the description based upon what the colonial English did to others in other countries, which even to this day the echoes are still being heard. In such situations where I detect murmurs of English bastards and what they did to us kind of insinuations, I firstly let the murmurs know there are English and English, the minority do not represent the majority and as to the subject of conquest, know something, before any country conquers another country, it must first conquer it's own country, it has always been us and them, and we, meaning myself, are not them, for I dislike them too.
But, on the subject of conquests and subjugation of neighbouring countries, would the wingers now be winging if it was their country in the past that were militarily stronger and it was they who had conquered England, I suspect not, so anything other, is just sour grapes because their past did not do what was done to them because they could not work together, the celtic thing they all claim to be, no clan trusted another clan. Perhaps it was the effect of Romanisation on Lower Britain, where England is now, Gaul and Germania to include Saxonia that created a different mind set that conquered the age old celtic foible that allowed the Celt to fall to the Roman in the first place.
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) felt insulted when I named him as being british....insisting that he is "english." 
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