As I recall from high school history Britain was little more than a suburb of Rome. Probably explains their position in the world.
And a hundred years ago it was the greatest power the world had ever known, with its territory covering a quarter of Earth's landmass.
Most of British descent eh?
Yep.
Do you count Scots and Irish as "Brits"?
Yep. What else would I count them as? Mongol?
And speaking of "most" Canadians... I
guess your script left out awareness of the French, plus your script writers are
failing to mention how on a per-capita basis there's as many full-blooded
natives in Canada as there are blacks in the US, and it's not mentioning that
50% of all Canadians living west of Ontario are technically Meti, with some
native blood in their heritage somewhere,
More Canadians are of British ancestry than are of some other ancestry. The largest ethnic group in Canada is British and English.
To be more precise, according to the 2006 census 21% of Canadians are of English origin; 15.1% are of Scottish origin; 13.9% are of Irish origin. This makes precisely 50% of Canadians of British descent. Only 15.8% are of French descent; 10.2% of German descent; 4.6% of Italian descent; 4.3% of Chinese descent; 4% of First Nations descent; 3.9% of Dutch descent; and 3.3% of Ukrainian descent.
I know it hurts you to think about it, but Canadians are much more British than anything else. Your census proves it.
Why do you
think the English Language is so great?
Because it's a great language. It's the language of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Pepys, Milton, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Blake, Shelley, Keats, Byron, Austen, Scott, the Brontës, D ickens, Wells, Barrie, Stoker, Conan Doyle, Carroll, Louis Stephenson, Tennyson, Rossetti, Wilde, Owen, Brooke, Lawrence, Hardy, Masefield, de la Mare, Thomas, Auden, Day-Lewis, Kipling, Lawrence, Orwell, Shaw, Coward, Huxley, Lewis, Grahame, Christie, Blyton, Dahl, Tolkien, Waugh, Amis, Lessing, Rushdie, Fleming, Rendall, James, Wyndham, Clarke, Awdry, King-Smith, Rowling, Pratchett, Gaiman, Adams, Barker, Motion and Rankin.
And they're only the British ones.
It is the third most-spoken native language in the world and the most spoken language in the world when also including non-native speakers; the perception of the usefulness of foreign languages among Europeans is 67% in favour of English ahead of 17% for German and 16% for French (as of 2012); among some of the non-English-speaking EU countries, the following percentages of the adult population claimed to be able to converse in English in 2012: 90% in the Netherlands, 89% in Malta, 86% in Sweden and Denmark, 73% in Cyprus and Austria, 70% in Finland, and over 50% in Greece, Luxembourg, Slovenia and Germany; English is the most commonly used language in the sciences with Science Citation Index reporting as early as 1997 that 95% of its articles were written in English, even though only half of them came from authors in English-speaking countries; English literature predominates considerably with 28% of all volumes published in the world [leclerc 2011] and 30% of web content in 2011.
Blackfeet and Inuit had a form of Common Law.
And you didn't adopt any of them. You adopted English Common Law, as it's the best there is.
Tell your script writers to consider the audience. You're talking to people who
are living under the consequences of that flawed system called Westminster
Parliamentary Democracy which enabled a guy who got only 36% of the popular vote
to get dictator-level control of the country.
If it's so inferior then why don't you change it?
That's not democracy, nor is it anything to present proudly to the rest of the
So somebody who received more votes than anybody else is not democracy?
Nope, I do it on purpose so childish minds
Because you like to be patronising. It doesn't work on me, I'm afraid.
Only if you're the antichrist
looking for a handy stepping-stone to global one-world satanic
domination.
The British Empire, which makes my chest swell with pride at the mere thought, was the greatest force for good that this planet as ever seen.
In fact, judging by the troubles that are going on in the world at the moment, this planet could do with the British Empire's return.
Actually, the oldest constitutional democracy in the
modern world is Iceland.
Rubbish. Iceland's constitution only dates back to 1944. Magna Carta, part of the British Constitution, dates back to 1215.
Who were the *first* democracy... millenia before
Druid British women discovered soap by washing cloths in the sudsy mixture of
human fat from torched human sacrifices mixes with the ashes of the
pyres.
But it hasn't been a democracy for as long a successive period as Britain has. No country has.
And the most photo-surveyed, and the nation with the
most draconian "emergency" state-crackdown laws.
And those CCTV cameras help to catch criminals and terrorists.
What's so great about the M.C.? It was just the
English King's way of buying off his cotemporal nobility, because he wasn't
strong enough to conquer them.
The Americans think it's great. They based their constitution on it. Canadian laws are based on it.
who used Canadian and Scottish for
Have you got any evidence for this bizarre claim?
What country do you think Scotland is a part of?
And why do you think think that Canada isn't an Anglo-Saxon nation?
Who told you that? It's in your script, right? You obviously don't know that
Gorbachov had a meeting with the IMF years before the Soviet system collapsed,
wherein he presented them with charts and graphs showing the west how the Soviet
system was imploding from within due to their inability to control the thugs
running the grey market, and that he was going to try to keep it propped up, but
just in case he was going to initiate programs of glasnost and perestroika in
preparation, and that the west should be ready for the change. Did you
*really* never notice how alert and wary, yet unsurprised, everyone in London
and Washington were when it finally went down?
So Reagan and Thatcher didn't defeat the USSR in the Cold War? I always thought it was the British and Americans who defeated the Soviets in the Cold War. We've been lied to over the last 20-odd years.
Anyway, so... you're tripping out on British-Empire nostalgia... nothing new
Of course I am. Why shouldn't I? The British Empire is just one of the many thinks that make me proud to be British.
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