That can be quite like: "Wow, I thought, you know, I thought England was full of English people? And it is! Because I'm English, but I just look very different."
WRONG
If a black woman tells you she's English, she's white-washing herself. It's like me moving to South Africa and calling myself Zulu. England is not a Civic National nation. It's a Kingdom founded on two major ethnic groups: Anglos and Anglo-Saxons. Britain is a larger abstract political and geographic concept, so maybe you can get away with calling yourself British, but you ain't ever gonna be English.
That can be quite like: "Wow, I thought, you know, I thought England was full of English people? And it is! Because I'm English, but I just look very different."
WRONG
If a black woman tells you she's English, she's white-washing herself. It's like me moving to South Africa and calling myself Zulu. England is not a Civic National nation. It's a Kingdom founded on two major ethnic groups: Anglos and Anglo-Saxons. Britain is a larger abstract political and geographic concept, so maybe you can get away with calling yourself British, but you ain't ever gonna be English.