• Awoo [she/her]
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    9 months ago

    Yes. I'd definitely say that people here see a distinct ethnic difference there. If you look at "british" as a shared ethnicity, and view people in britain (not great britain, just britain IE the main island) as having two ethnicities (minor/greater), you can start to see why it wasn't necessary for any one single ethnicity here to wipe out the others in order to create the larger polity that exists.

    • Satanic_Mills [comrade/them]
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      9 months ago

      Great Britain is the name of the largest island, hence 'the united kingdom of great Britain and Northern Island'.

      If Irish is a separate ethnicity as it has a state but welsh is not despite sharing a common cultural history and being subject to much of the same processes of assimilation then the definition becomes tautological.