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The feeling of national consciousness (Part III) ... There are differences in Wales between residents of industrial South and countryside North, and West, where people speaks Welsh only, and between English-speaking East and Southern-East. Nevertheless the majority of Welsh consider themselves as separate nation, distinguished from Englishmen. Now Welsh are fighting against supplanting their culture and language with English equivalents, opposing originality of their people to authority of London. Similarly Scottish unite, protecting their nation and culture due to historically happened disgust towards Englishmen. Scottish revere their traditions, that are reflected in local festivals and differ from legislative, religious and educational systems. More than 30 percent of Scottish wanted political independence from England. In Northern Ireland differences between catholics and protestants have been known a long ago, and now they are intensified due to discrepancies in geographic locations. Despite protestants don't suppose them to be Englishmen, they would rather prefer stay in Great Britain, but catholics consider themselves Irish and want to join Ireland. Both are interested in protecting local culture, music and Irish language. Overall, summing up, modern British are mixed and heterogeneous people, whose heterogeneity is aggravated by emigrants and cultures brought by them. So, search for pure Englishman, Welsh, Scottish or Irish who could match all the stereotypes, connected with “typical British”, is becoming very complex, say, unsuccessful.
May 18, 2013 9:07 PM
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The feeling of national consciousness (Part III)

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There are differences in Wales between residents of theindustrial South and countryside the rural North, and West, where people speaks speak Welsh only, and between the English-speaking East and Southern-East.

It is not clear in this sentence which regions are being compared.  Are you making 2 comparisons or just 1? 1. the industrial South <em>with </em>the rural North and West, where people speak Welsh only (I seem to recall many people speaking English in North Wales so I am not sure that this quite true) and 2 the English-speaking East <em>with</em> the South-East. You might need to re-work this sentence


Nevertheless the majority of Welsh consider themselves as separate nation, distinguished from Englishmenthe English. Now the Welsh are fighting against supplanting their culture and language with English equivalents, opposing originality of their people to authority of London - (not sure what you mean exactly).
Similarly the Scottish unite, protecting their nation and culture due to historically happened disgust towards Englishmen. The Scottish revere their traditions, that which are reflected in local festivals and different from legislative, religious and educational systems. More than 30 percent of Scottish people wanted political independence from England.
In Northern Ireland differences between cCatholics and pProtestants have been known a long ago for a long time (<em>or</em> since long ago), and now they are intensified due to discrepanciesdifferences in geographic locations. Despite protestants don't suppose them to be EnglishmenAlthough Protestants don't consider themselves to be English, they would rather prefer stay in Great Britain, but cCatholics consider themselves Irish and want to join Ireland. Both are interested in protecting local culture, music and Irish language. this last sentence is confusing - do you mean that Protestants are interested in protecting Irish language?
Overall, summing up, the modern British are mixed and (<em>means the same thing)</em> heterogeneous people, whose heterogeneity is aggravated increased by emigrants and cultures brought by them. So, to search for a pure Englishman, Welsh, Scottish or Irish person who could match all the stereotypes, connected with “typical British”, is becoming very complex; some would say, unsuccessful.

May 19, 2013
There's also the Bretons, on the western coast of France. Celts also.
May 18, 2013
I think one of my great-grandfathers was a Welsh speaker. On my father's side they emigrated from Scotland. Andrew Carnegie, he was born in Scotland.
May 18, 2013
Some of your claims are not entirely accurate, but this is an interesting series of articles. I enjoyed reading them!
May 18, 2013
"More than 30 percent of Scottish wanted political independence from England." - No, not from England...from the UK. There is a big difference!
May 18, 2013
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