Indians aren't English. British, by construction, is multinational. That the commonwealth backwashed into England is the great shame of the British Empire.
Correct. My point is that 'British' as a constructed identity spans nationalities, Unionist Irish included. You can take exception and exclude the commonwealth as not being British, but citizenship was granted to emigres from the commonwealth during the process of decolonization. For that reason there are many British Citizens who are not of English, Irish, Scottish, or Welsh extraction.
Much like American doesn't necessarily mean 'Part of the European Diaspora' after the Immigration and Nationality act of 1965, British no longer means 'Indigenous to Britain.' It's the same cultural (and arguably racial) corruption and degradation seen broadly across the West. Without a degree of xenophobia sufficient to maintain the host culture, multicultural empires tend to erode their root stock.
Indians aren't English. British, by construction, is multinational. That the commonwealth backwashed into England is the great shame of the British Empire.
Fuck off. Being a subject of the British Empire us separate to being British.
Being a quarter Irish, I would agree.
AFAIK most of Ireland has been not-Britain for a long time.
Correct. My point is that 'British' as a constructed identity spans nationalities, Unionist Irish included. You can take exception and exclude the commonwealth as not being British, but citizenship was granted to emigres from the commonwealth during the process of decolonization. For that reason there are many British Citizens who are not of English, Irish, Scottish, or Welsh extraction.
Much like American doesn't necessarily mean 'Part of the European Diaspora' after the Immigration and Nationality act of 1965, British no longer means 'Indigenous to Britain.' It's the same cultural (and arguably racial) corruption and degradation seen broadly across the West. Without a degree of xenophobia sufficient to maintain the host culture, multicultural empires tend to erode their root stock.