I appreciate people find certain connotations of "British" or "English" problematic but in honesty even if you say you "belong" to London before the UK, London has a good slice of those people you find problematic too and the stuff we all like about London comes in part at least due to practices and trades we really don't like. Without the wealth from plundering the resources of the world in centuries past, most of Europe and North America would be extremely different places.
I appreciate people find certain connotations of "British" or "English" problematic but in honesty even if you say you "belong" to London before the UK, London has a good slice of those people you find problematic too and the stuff we all like about London comes in part at least due to practices and trades we really don't like. Without the wealth from plundering the resources of the world in centuries past, most of Europe and North America would be extremely different places.
Bad comes with good most of the time.