What do the NATIVES call your country?

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by Sava


You should take your own advice... now stop speaking to me troll!

Plus, my gripes are with the leadership, not the country. I'm not going to let a bunch of right-wing baffoons drive me out of my country.

Then why don't you DO something about it instead of just complaining?

Its like the slant of each and every one of your posts, no matter the topic, is anti-right wing. And you would think with that kind of obsession you'd have some kind of an active interest in stopping. Yet, I'd be very surprised to learn if you've ever actually done anything to stop it.

And like you're not trolling either...

Question: What do natives call your country?

Sava: I call it the evil-empire!

Now was that the question?

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Tolls
Does England really class as a country in its own right? A footie team does not a country make!

England is a country.
Scotland is a country.
Wales is a principality.
Northern Ireland is a province.
Britain is a geographical location.
The United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) is a nation.

[Imran Siddiqui]

England is a country.
Scotland is a country.
Wales is a principality.
Northern Ireland is a province.
Britain is a geographical location.
The United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) is a nation.

That's kinda backwards isn't it?

England is a nation.
Scotland is a nation.
Wales is a nation.
Northern Ireland is part of the Irish nation.
The United Kingdom is a state (or country if you will).

The United Kingdom is composed of many nations, just as the United States is composed of many nations.

[Sava]

I always thought of the United States as one nation...

Jimmy: go away you silly DL... you have no idea what I do in real life away from Apolyton so stop making stupid posts over this strange stereotype you've created about me.

[St Leo]

Originally posted by Mihai
Romania - It has something to do with the fact that it was Roman province.

Everybody call it Romania or Rumania.

The province was called Dacia. The Romania thing is due to a silly nationalistic claim that Vlachs (Romanians) are the only true descendants of the Romans and that they used to run the Byzantine Empire (rather than Greeks). I've met trolls on the net claiming these things.

Germany : Saksa
German language : saksa
a people from Germany (German) : saksalainen
Germans (peoples from Germany) : saksalaiset

What did you call Saxony when it still existed?

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

England is a country.
Scotland is a country.
Wales is a principality.
Northern Ireland is a province.
Britain is a geographical location.
The United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) is a nation.

That's kinda backwards isn't it?

England is a nation.
Scotland is a nation.
Wales is a nation.
Northern Ireland is part of the Irish nation.
The United Kingdom is a state (or country if you will).

The United Kingdom is composed of many nations, just as the United States is composed of many nations.

Thats correct, a nation generally refers to ethnicity and a state is political. A nation state is a state comprised of one ethnicity... Israel tries to pull this off.

And the US is made up of many many many nations technically speaking, while it is one state.

And again, good call on the DL thing sava. Its like calling someone a dumb-bum when they offend you.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
That's kinda backwards isn't it?

England is a nation.
Scotland is a nation.
Wales is a nation.
Northern Ireland is part of the Irish nation.
The United Kingdom is a state (or country if you will).

The United Kingdom is composed of many nations, just as the United States is composed of many nations.

Depends on your understanding of nation - To me the States of America are not nations. I understand a nation to be a sovereign political entity, states to be autonomous political entities (subserviant to the nation). Countries are a collection of people with similar culture, ideals, history or belief.

I suggest you ask Roland for his definitions.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I don't care about Roland's definitons . I'm using International Relations (IR) definitions.

Nation is a group of people who share similar ethnicity and culture. A state is a political boundary. Nation-state is a state that has the majority of its residence belonging to one nation.

This is why the German nation expands beyond Germany (into Poland, Czech Republic, etc.), while the German state is simply the borders.

Country is simply another word for state, but it usually not used in IR.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
I don't care about Roland's definitons . I'm using International Relations (IR) definitions.

And I'm using English colloquialisms.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Well then stop using colloquialisms and start using expert language .

[Dauphin]

Football or soccer?

[Lord_Davinator]

football... you use you bloody foot don't you?

soccer kinda reminds me of sucker

neways...sticking to the topic

Nepal = kantipur

[Anodyne]

Not written by Anodyne, but a pervert:

I like the musrooms of mushy stools.
My twitcher does not like cocoa, so get lost.
I should really eat something new.
Populistic Satan worships me, but I deny and rise for Oblivion.
I am not psychedelic. I am B$Y(H3|)3L|(K.
My world is not thy word, so **** you. To: Jesus.
Please approach and I grab you.
I shall rise but meet will not be intact. Yes, I have been glued to ground. I don't remember how.

RAA RAA SAATAN!
RAA RAA SAATAN SAATAN INFERNALIS!
RAA RAA SAATAN DIABOLIS!
RAA RAA } <-- me metal

I should see the coast without the weed.
My coral is so hard, yeah adult.

[JimmyCracksCorn]

Originally posted by Anodyne
Not written by Anodyne, but a pervert:

I like the musrooms of mushy stools.
My twitcher does not like cocoa, so get lost.
I should really eat something new.
Populistic Satan worships me, but I deny and rise for Oblivion.
I am not psychedelic. I am B$Y(H3|)3L|(K.
My world is not thy word, so **** you. To: Jesus.
Please approach and I grab you.
I shall rise but meet will not be intact. Yes, I have been glued to ground. I don't remember how.

RAA RAA SAATAN!
RAA RAA SAATAN SAATAN INFERNALIS!
RAA RAA SAATAN DIABOLIS!
RAA RAA } <-- me metal

I should see the coast without the weed.
My coral is so hard, yeah adult.

[monkspider]

I think I'm turning Nipponese I think I'm turning Nipponese I really think so!
Don't Russians call Russia "Rus" or did I just imagine that?

Ooh another one India = Hindustan.