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Do you Speak Irish?
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But from an outsiders point of view we probably are. Just take yourself on holiday and go to an Irish pub, suddenly most of the ex pats are watching and cheering for Man U on the big screen, they all speak English, they are addicted to X Factor goosip, they all talk about the UK chain stores they love, even their names are very Anglophile, from Thomas to Emily, to Robert, to James and Jessica to John & Derek, all the names are obviously from the group of islands too, hence foreigners surprise when they learn that not only have we seperated ourselves from the rest of these islands, but we have done so in as many ways as possible! (short of changing our DNA) which is I guess heavily connected to next door
As stated when replying to he who got banned, no. europeans know the difference. Both are promoted quite differently by their respective tourist industries and most have been to one if not both.
If you go to Scandanvia, you'll see locals watching English soccer, so that argument falls. Also, soccer is not really a fair measure of culture. Most contries have their oen version of X factor and Idol and so on, so that doesn't stand up either. They know we speka English, but then so do Americans.
Fact is, Europeans, for the most part are intelligent people who know the difference between "Irish" and "British".Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.
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