In your opinion, how do you define someone who is or isn’t British??

anyone prepared to die for our country.

Britain is essentially a nation of migrants
Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Normans and Vikings, Huguenots, Indians, Russian Jews, Germans and Caribbeans/Indians after the fall of the British Empire.
Thus to deny someone the right to be 'British' due to their ethnicity does not make sense.

British ancestry is irrelevant to being British. How come you say you have no 'proper nationality'? If you can't think of a nationality you identify with more than British, then surely you are British. Also there's no such thing as a 'true Brit' maybe that's where your confusion lies.

But let me tell you this, if you are born British and you Voted Remain and did not defend this country's sovereignty from foreign corrupt bureacrats, you lose 45% of your Britishness.

I wouldn't automatically consider someone English even if they're born here but if they are not to ethnically English parents. Because that's now about culture and stuff and lets be honest 90% of immigrants here no matter the number of generations do not assimilate.

People with English/Scottish/Welsh ancestry

This is rubbish. All ethnicities are a mix if you go back far enough, and all ethnicities have a small amount of admixture from others. It's not significant. The fact is that before very recently Britain was a homogeneous nation with a shared identity, heritage and culture. Pithy truisms like yours became popular as a way to justify mass immigration and forced social engineering.

If that isn't a bull**** figure then I don't know what is. You're telling me that hundreds of thousands of black people

The fact is that before very recently Britain was a homogeneous nation with a shared identity, heritage and culture.

What about Northern Ireland?

1st of all...you need to calm yourself down

2nd of all...I never even specified which people I was talking about but when it comes to "assimilation" one is normally referring to culture/religion. Not race...

Lastly...I'm right

If British ancestry is irrelevant to being British then being British means nothing. If anyone can be British, then no one is British. You are undermining people's identity in order to facilitate their replacement. It's a genocidal worldview.

If I moved to China and had kids with a British woman, those kids would not be considered Chinese because they don't have Chinese heritage. Your belonging to one group or another is not about the dirt you are born on (except in the case of New World countries) but about ancestry and heritage.

I have an Asian heritage, whilst i was born and bred in the UK, I don't consider myself to be British.


Anyone who sees me (white british), instantly their first impression is 1. He's Asian 2. English most likely isn't his first language 3. He certainly is not British.

So, why should I class myself as British when i'm clearly not perceived as one. Irrelevant of where I was born and the fact that English is the language I use 90% of the time.

Hi all, I’m just curious about how you, in your opinion, would consider somebody who is or isn’t British?

As we all know, we are living in a more and more globalised world, with increasing mobility and transport meaning more movement between people, more immigration within the world meaning what defines a person’s nationality is becoming more complex now. A lot of people however are opposed to this globalisation, fearing loss of British cultural identity and would take the more traditional view that in order to be British is not only to born and bred in the UK, but to be primarily of British origin/have British ancestry as well. Whether we like it or not history and heritage are an important part of a persons identity.

For example take me I’m born and raised in England to Irish parents and I personally would find it quite difficult to call myself British/english given I have no British ancestry (mum is from NI however). However FWIW I actually moved to NI at 14, moving during school, still have an English accent today, and known to everyone as the “English guy” so by that token, given I don’t have an Irish accent, never played Gaelic games (Irelands no.1 sport), never learned Irish, never went to catholic schools, I don’t feel Irish and I wouldn't be accepted as properly Irish by the locals either. So I’ve come to conclusion I don’t have a proper nationality in actual fact, but not having British heritage I feel prohibits me from calling myself a true Brit.

However, I do want to make it clear that if a Black or an Asian person considers themselves British/English, I will too, I’ll consider people what they consider themselves to be, I just personally wouldn't feel comfortable being in that situation calling myself British (hence why I don't).

So who in your opinion, do consider a British person to be? (I've decided to poll this )

No not anyone can be British. You would have to 1) not identify as another nationality 2) have British citizenship 3) be part of the British community/share British values.

Ancestry does not come into this whatsoever. Those children would be considered Chinese since they would have a Chinese birth certificate and be raised in the Chinese culture hence adhering to the Chinese community and values.