What is British though?

I am thinking about experiencing a common understanding when speaking with another - who lives in the UK - at perhaps a motorway service area over fifty miles from home as one example.

I think its a valid question, when we talking about people only being British if they fit within non-legally defined criteria.

To me, anyone who is a British Citizen is British.

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Well for a deep thinking and intelligent person like you that is a very reductive view. Why do those on the left start hiding behind definitions when we all know what we are talking about.
You can call people what you like but behaviour defines them in the way that matters and in this case, British is what the majority are and the minority aren't.
We are influenced by other cultures all the time but when you have a personal interpretation of what you are, you recognise others who are similar. You can call that British if you like. It doesn't necessarily depend on skin colour or even religion but more about attitude and your personal perception based on your lifetime of experiences.

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (10 Aug 2017 4.46pm)

Why does an immigrant have the embrace the "culture of the majority"? If they all did that, you'd have nothing to eat except fish 'n' chip and nothing to listen to except Chas 'n' Dave.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

But isn't the problem with such an argument that there isn't 'a one of us'? We are riven with cultural, moral, political, ideological, class and economic divisions.

Its more because I've been around this a few times and can't come to a fairer definition. So how do we ascertain who the majority are? And why assume that by default any minority is not British, because they hold different views, opinions and attitudes - doesn't that inform the cultural development of what is British.

And how do you ascertain what the majority perceives, thinks or feels - What if in some areas, you're aligned with the majority view, and others your not.

Most people probably think they're in the majority (I don't, by experience I think I'm a minority on a lot of things). But of course having a minority view or perception, doesn't mean that your wrong either - This history of British Law is full of incidents in which the rational argument, despite being unpopular, wins out, and becomes the British Norm.

Wouldn't they be English and working class, which seems a bit unfair to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as well as the overseas British citizens such as the Falkland Islanders - as they're immediately outside the majority, in their own nation.

What I'm saying, is that the term British in terms of values and culture, gets used a lot, but cannot be reasonably quantified - without accepting irrational values.

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