How many Nationalities?

Estonian here

Corney. You're a Londoner, just like the rest of us.

I ain't

I find it strange to go back to barbados, (though I haven't been back for ten years, but I did go regularly with my mum and sister every couple of years from like seven to twenty five) that I was just as "other" there as I was made to feel here growing up. I always thought I'm black, on an island of two hundred and fifty thousand or so other black people including my family that I would be accepted (or if not accepted) not thought of as "other" but I wasn't.
Quite odd being called english, and people staring as you walk from place to place, it felt very similar to going to unversity in newcastle, back in the early nineties just without the appreciative/supportive nod of recognition from other black people who were also in the same situation.
quite confusing. Wonder what its gonna be like the next time I'm back and whether I'll still feel as displaced.

My great uncle (nan's brother) was born and raised in Ireland and has lived in London for most of his life now but when he goes back to the village he grew up in they call him 'the Englishman'

(...)back in the early nineties just without the appreciative/supportive nod of recognition from other black people who were also in the same situation(..)

My wife has the same habit. Whenever we are in Belgium, Holland, Germany or Poland, she always says hello or waves to other Black people. Strangely, Africans tend to generally ignore her (perhaps she draws too much attention to them - my wife's bit crazy like that, you know), but all the West Indians or Americans always nod and smile. Sometimes stop for a chat. Especially in Warsaw or Lodz, where's there's no real "diaspora" like in the Netherlands apart for a groups of African students who stick together (and I don't blame them).

@ Wibble. You also get that within countries; I'm a Northerner to Londoners but have become a sort of Southerner to my family. But then again my family really are the most awful shower of oiks one could ever hope to meet, what what?

You should stop eating salads and drinking frappuccions then ;-)

You should stop eating salads and drinking frappuccions then ;-)

those frappuccions sound interesting. Polish drink is it?
I thought there was some evidence that mixed race children tend to marry people who resemble their opposite-sex parent? Broadly speaking.

Irish blood, English heart.

Snap, with some other bits and bobs floating around.

Oh English, by the way.
There's Irish, Scots, Welsh, and a bit of Romanian Jew in there too, but nuts to all that. I'm English.

Bit like this actually.

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1. English
   
2. English
   
3. English
   
4. English
   
5. English
   
   

So that's 120% English! And proud of it. :)

I thought there was some evidence that mixed race children tend to marry people who resemble their opposite-sex parent? Broadly speaking.

You mean ugly people like me? I wouldn't want that for me daughter.

Well, I don't know the specific research but anyway it's fairly common for men to marry women who look like their mothers; the creepiest example I know of is Lance Armstrong. His first wife was the spit of his mother. Saw a photo of the three of them together, freaky.

@ Wibble. You also get that within countries; I'm a Northerner to Londoners but have become a sort of Southerner to my family. But then again my family really are the most awful shower of oiks one could ever hope to meet, what what?

Funny you mention that. Had a friend from Ripon who moved down to Suffolk in high school and we used to joke around with him about the northern accent. He then moved back to Ripon and some of his old friends remarked on how he'd lost his accent.

Half English, half Malay, all London.

turkish born mother (with romanian / hungarian / german / egyptian heritage)
sri lankan born father (with portugese surname)

so how did i end up with a scottish surname like mckenzie?? and born in norf london??

Mum is South African born of Dutch descent (grandfather 2nd generation Afrikaans and grandmother Dutch).
Father is Dutch (quarter Jewish from grandmothers side).
So I think that makes me two eights Afrikaans, an eight Jewish and 5 eights Dutch.
Been living in the UK for 8 years (6 in London), 2 years in Australia, 3 years in South Africa, 3 years in Spain, 1 year in Austria and 15 years in the Netherlands.

did anyone dibs ugandan yet if not i might have a crack

Cockney Kopite.

That's me on the right.

WAC, that puts me on the left then.

Dully full English, though possibly a great grandparent from Scottishland. In other news, a direct descendant of Oliver Cromwell.

full English

No black pudding is not a full English breakfast.
The presence of a hash brown makes it even more dubious....

100% Londoner... My country is Galicia* tho', we rule...

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• Not actually a country *
  

No black pudding is not a full English breakfast.
The presence of a hash brown makes it even more dubious....

Racist.