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Y the UK should be called England.
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From the CIA World Factbook:
The United Kingdom
Ethnic groups:
English 81.5%, Scottish 9.6%, Irish 2.4%, Welsh 1.9%, Ulster 1.8%, West Indian, Indian, Pakistani, and other 2.8%
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The United Kingdom
Ethnic groups:
English 81.5%, Scottish 9.6%, Irish 2.4%, Welsh 1.9%, Ulster 1.8%, West Indian, Indian, Pakistani, and other 2.8%
Did I say something wrong?
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Only posted that to go on to a question, otherwise I wouldn't had bothered.
Either way, why are your prayers out for Tony Blair? :eek2:
Even though when I saw it I thought 81 English...why not England? That name would make it perfect for 81% of the people who live there.
Anyways, my prayers are with Tony Blair because unlike Bush, his country isn't supporting him for taking a stand against terrorism. These leaders get terror matrix's everyday and I trust that they were sufficient enough to want to go to war against Iraq. Who loves wars? I reject the notion that any country does. And the war isn't helping Tony Blair's career so why would he support it if not to protect his country?
obviously the world in your eyes will be better when were all american. shudder the fucking point!
You really should just laugh it off. Give or take 40 to 50 years America is going to make Yugoslavia look like a picnic.
Yay, and you can celebrate on a little atoll somewhere.
England is the largest landmass, hence the higher population of the whole.
Rather than piss people off, all you have really done is show a little ignorance and rather than laughing with you, we are more likely to be laughing at you
Yes you did.
The reason why the UK is called the UK is due to it being literally a union of kingdoms (, i.e. England and Scotland).
Its slightly worrying when even the American secret service can't get it right about a country such as the UK
makes it even harder to believe the stuff they come out with about other countries that tend to be less open in releasing information, i.e Iraq
I also know the Union jack is made up of crosses that symbolize, St. Andrew, partron saint of Scotland, saint George, patron saint of England and saint Patrick.
Someone's answer of it being a union of kingdoms made the most sense. Otherwise to look at the stats, you think they're 81% English. And that answer was just what I was looking for.
Now THAT could get interesting...
What I see as being diminish is the influence of France. Their dirty dealings with Iraq have come to the forefront...despite the lies the left tried to convey with their posters against Bush and oil.
ANTI-SEMITIC! Peace Protestors are not Nazi's. The palestinians on the marches quite clearly hate Israeli's and why not? They get butchered, oppressed and used by them constantly. A hatred of Zionism and the current state of Israel is not anti-semitic - it's like saying being a peace protestor is tantamount to high treason!
It's just a mixture of wishing to wind people up and desperately trying to believe what his government and the Right in America are saying... because internally he is struggling to find a good reason to support Bush's war agenda and he will welcome any theories however absurd to 'help him believe' his government is doing the right thing.
Next time he says something like that ask him if the Jewish groups and individuals (some survivors of the Holocaust) joining the peace marches or voicing their support for peace in Iraq and in Palestine are also anti-semites. He will refuse to answer and avoid subject for the rest of the day, as it has been the case before.
There's no doubt in my mind regarding the war and how it will benefit the war on terror as well as the Iraqi people. Sorry to disrupt socialist/communist France's oil deals.
Do it somewhere else.........
Ulster is the Protestant area of N.ireland
That makes sense. Otherwise calling it England makes sense with 81% of the people being English.
The Welsh aren't a minority in Wales.
The Scottish aren't a minority in Scotland.
English 81.5%, Scottish 9.6%, Irish 2.4%, Welsh 1.9%, Ulster 1.8%, West Indian, Indian, Pakistani, and other 2.8%
That tripped me up bad seed. And I know what the Union Jack's crosses represent. But then someone said the Uk is a kingdom of kingdoms and that makes sense. It's not just about numbers of people, it's about the history of kingdoms getting together under one flag.
Ulster is the one of the four ancient provinces of the island of Ireland - Munster (South), Leinster (East), Connaught (West) and Ulster (North)
The six counties that make up Northern Ireland, the UK part of Island of Ireland are Down, Antrim, Fermanagh, Armagh, Londonderry and Tyrone. The province of Ulster also includes 3 further counties that are part of the Republic of Ireland - Monaghan, Cavan and Donegal.
My point was the C.I.A handbook pointed to the fact that there was a grouping in the UK called "Ulster" - there is no such thing. People from Northern Ireland are Northern Irish and there is no "protestant" part of Northern Ireland, unless you include ghettoised areas of Belfast!
I just thought that if an organisation such as the C.I.A can't get its statistics about a country like the UK right, how can you expect to believe those for countries where data is less readily available??
I still think it is legitimate to identify people as being from Ulster, there is a strong identity there isn' there?