{"product_id":"the-british-people-from-worldwide-origins-von-birgit-lonnemann","title":"The British: People from worldwide origins","description":"\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 1999 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,7, University of Osnabrück (Fachbereich Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften), course: Constructing Britishness: Fiction, Film, Press, language: English, abstract: ¿We call our islands by no less than six different names,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngland, Britain, Great Britain, the British Isles, the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnited Kingdom and, in very exalted moments, Albion.¿ \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis quotation taken from George Orwell¿s essay\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEngland, Your England (1941) clearly shows that the names\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003equoted above are often used as synonyms, although they\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epatently are not. So it is no surprise that some people define\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethemselves as being ¿Englishsorrybritish¿ ¿ a term which\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eoccurred in the newspapers several times over the last few\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emonths. A lot of people seem to be quite confused about their\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eidentity, about who they are and where they belong. But using\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe words ¿English¿ and ¿British¿ interchangeably is, in my\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eopinion, not very fair ¿ especially with regard to the inhabitants\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn fact, the so-called United Kingdom of Great Britain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand Northern Ireland comprises four different indigenous\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enations: English, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish. And\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econsidering the fact that the British Isles (cf. map 1, page 2) ¿ of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhich the United Kingdom3 is a part ¿ have attracted settlers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand immigrants for several centuries, it is not surprising that the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econtemporary British are a very diverse people, or ¿ as is stated\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein the title of my paper ¿ people from worldwide origins. The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003equestion arises whether the majority of people in the United\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKingdom consider themselves to be British or rather to be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnglish, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish or part of any other\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecommunity often referred to as a so-called ethnic minority\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egroup.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783640206315\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783640206315","offer_id":39425096712285,"sku":"9783640206315","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/ddc2fffd-9d5d-4477-a3cb-c6dfe0f8a490.jpg?v=1777529996","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-british-people-from-worldwide-origins-von-birgit-lonnemann","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}