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Britain Is Only England
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Since the Anglo-Saxons invaded Britain in the fifth century, their culture gradually spread across the island. With the advent of the British Empire, this started to spread across the world, and today English is the most widely spoken language worldwide. To this day, England remains the politically and culturally dominant part of the UK, housing the nation's capital (along with its next two largest cities) and 84% of its population. Because of this, a lot of people when hearing the word "British" tend to think of England's people and culture rather than that of other cultural areas of the island, such as Scotland and Wales. While the culture of Scotland is recognizable to people outside of the country, it is still referred to as "Scottish" instead of "British", and Welsh culture is not nearly as often referenced. As an example, many people refer to an English accent as a British accent. Scottish and Welsh accents are rarely called British accents despite being just as British. (In fact, for historical reasons, a case could be made that the Welsh and Cornish have the most claim of anyone to being called British.) For more information, see Britain Versus the UK. See also Britain Is Only London. |
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In The Western TheSettlers, Alexander is Scottish but Bill (who is American) keeps calling him English. Alexander doesn't seem to mind, but an other Scottish character eventually kills Bill and asks Alexander how he can let that go. | |
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The Man Who Never Was: Montagu tells the father of the dead man whose body he wants to use that this is an opportunity to "do a great thing for England." The father, who is a Scotsman, takes umbrage. | |
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Animaniacs: Zig-Zagged in the song "Yakko's world". When he mentions "England" the whole of the UK is highlighted, which is strange because "Scotland" had already been listed separately. | |
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In Moriarty the Patriot, William's goal is to save "the entire British Empire" but almost never strays beyond the boundaries of England — and when he does, it's to places like India and America, not Scotland, Northern Ireland, or Wales. | |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail: King Arthur calls himself "Sovereign of all England". Although he's following Late Medieval stories like Le Morte d'Arthur where Arthur is called king of England, it makes no sense in context, considering he had just announced himself as "King of the Britons" and "Defeater of the Saxons". The Saxons were one of the groups who established England in the first place, while the term "Britons" during the Middle Ages referred to the Brythonic Celtic natives among whom Arthur's legend originated. Possibly justified by the film being set in 932 AD, after England's consolidation under Alfred the Great — but also roughly 400 years after Arthur is traditionally dated. note In the context of the film, he is known by many titles and descriptions, even if some are out of date. | |
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag: Fairly early in the game, a character dismissively calls Player Character an Englishman. Edward irritatedly retorts that he's Welsh, not English. | |
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Scandinavia and the World: Subverted in the early comics; "England" seems to symbolise an overall British stereotype and wears a Union Jack shirt, but later on Ireland and Scotland show up and he explains he wears it because the Cross of St. George makes him look like a member of the Red Cross. Soon the comic switched to England wearing just the Cross of St. George, though Humon claims to have made the switch because it's easier to draw. | |
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Conversed in Love of Magic. The game takes place in Edinburgh, Scotland, but various people (notably Mom) call it England. Scots like Katie do not take kindly to this. | |
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In Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami, "Whales" is introduced as "a town in England." Given this is a crack fic, the mistake is probably deliberate. | |
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In Hetalia: Axis Powers, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland actually do exist as characters... technically. Despite this, England is also known as the UK even in canon, and represents the entirety of Britain much of the time. | |
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Lucy-May of the Southern Rainbow: The Popples are amongst many British families that immigrated from their country to Australia in the 1800s, but all despite the large amount of British characters, they all mention only England as their home (Lucy's family is specifically from Yorkshire). | |
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My Immortal: Ebony mistakenly believes that Hogwarts is in England. It's actually in Scotland. | |
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Asterix: Downplayed. Despite taking place in ancient Roman times, 500 years before the Anglo-Saxons landed, Britons are portrayed as caricatures of modern-day English people anyway. The ancient city of Londinium (which did not actually exist when the story is set) is a stand-in for modern-day London, and are multiple jokes about the English language, while the Britons actually spoke a Celtic language that Welsh evolved from. The comic does feature an Hibernian (Irish) warrior, Caledonian (Scottish) bards with bagpipes and a snark about Caledonian thriftiness. | |
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Hägar the Horrible: In one strip, after being blown off-course and shipwrecked, Hägar thinks he has landed in England and sends Lucky Eddie ashore proclaiming he loves the English. Turns out they have actually landed in Scotland, and violence ensues. | |
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Richard from The Case Files of Jeweler Richard is an Englishman from the suburbs of London, and actually refers to his nationality as English, not British. Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales are never even mentioned as existing. | |
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Legends of Tomorrow: Henry VIII calls himself the king of the British Empire, despite only being the King of England. Britain as a de jure unified country, let alone the British Empire, wouldn't exist until long after Henry's death. | |
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Torchwood: Miracle Day episode two "Rendition" has CIA agent Lyn Peterfield say to Gwen Cooper "If you're the best England has to offer, God help you," to which Gwen responds "I'm Welsh" before punching her out. | |
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