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hoverflies are underrated imo

i feel like it would be so much easier to talk about celtic nations online if the general online population understood that england ≠ britain ≠ the uk ≠ the british isles

i remember someone i followed on tumblr received an ask where the asker was going "i thought welsh people were english bc i thought england was the island and britain was the country with london etc".

i also feel like since there's been welsh, scottish, and cornish people online recently saying "don't say britain when you mean england", some people have taken that to mean "never say britain and only say england", when we just mean "stop talking about britain like it's one homogenised culture where everywhere is england".

i feel like it would be so much easier to talk about celtic nations online if the general online population understood that england ≠ britain ≠ the uk ≠ the british isles

i remember someone i followed on tumblr received an ask where the asker was going "i thought welsh people were english bc i thought england was the island and britain was the country with london etc".

i'm not really interested in engaging with anything where "british" is:

a) treated like one homogenised culture (that homigenised culture ALWAYS being english and ignoring the minority languages/cultures/nations here)

and b) it's completely ignored that the modern useage of "british" is very much a political term that begun existence with the acts of union. i.e. not the useage that just implies britain as an island, or the "british isles" (although i think we should retire those geographical uses since it's just such a political term that at worst has connotations of cultural genocide of the non-english nations of these isles at the hands of the english). or british being used to mean common-brythonic-speaking peoples and their language. something something, that quote "britishness is a political synonym for englishness which extends english culture over the scots, the welsh, and the irish". and i would add that cornish could very well do with being added to that quote.