Nationality Argument

[In The Year Of The Snake]

Originally Posted by BeautifulBurnout

Without wishing to split hairs, but they are both British - Rick is Welsh and Karl is English, both of which countries, together with Scotland, form Great Britain. If you add Northern Ireland, you have the United Kingdom.

Em, yeah. While I am so infinitely grateful for the geography lesson (I truly had no idea that them islands ova thar in that big ole sea was big ol' Great Britain!), it was actually completely unnecessary.

I said calling Rick "British" was vague, not wrong. He's Welsh, and proud of it. (By his own admittance, and how else did Cymraeg end up as one of the menu languages on "Everything, Everything"? (The others of course being the obviously-required English, and very justifiably-included Japanese.))

They're both British, but call a Welshman a "Londoner" and he'll almost certainly take offense.