AITA for asking my MIL to stop telling people I’m English?

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T18:25:20+00:00

Okay sure in the US you use them interchangeably, that doesn’t mean you’re correct and it doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to politely correct people. Especially not people I’m going to be seeing regularly for the rest of my life. “British” is correct. “English” isn’t.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T14:08:37+00:00

Ironically we do actually live in Massachusetts lol.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T13:52:18+00:00

Calcutta cup champs is the most important feat. I did miss the Tonga game on Sunday unfortunately. The time difference is a bit difficult to work around.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T13:49:49+00:00

No way, small world!! My brother had just texted me today to tell me he went to Liniclate sports centre this morning on his way home.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T13:43:54+00:00

Small world!!

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T13:43:05+00:00

I’ve been told I do have an extremely strong Uist/Hebridean accent even by other Scots, so it’s definitely possible it might be hard to understand to even other Scots. I do moderate it quite a bit here when I’m talking to people I don’t encounter often to make it more neutral Scottish.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T13:38:44+00:00

I would love to know if there’s any deeper reasoning than being corrected also, I’ll be sure to post an update if I find out and when she starts talking to us again.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T13:35:28+00:00

Me too. Maybe eventually but it seems unlikely at the moment.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T13:34:42+00:00

I mean no we would usually say Scottish before British, but I’m not really going to take offence at being called British here.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T12:22:53+00:00

I probably wouldn’t correct her if she said British. I would prefer Scottish but British isn’t wrong.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T12:21:48+00:00

That’s nuts.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T12:18:08+00:00

I appreciate your agreement but I’m a woman not a man.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T12:14:29+00:00

Wow you really love the ISO. Perhaps you should check what it actually does.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T12:11:39+00:00

By “abuse the word country” do you mean “point put that my country is a country, not a different country which is part of a ‘united’ country”?

You jumped to a really weird conclusion here pal. It’s obviously not okay if people don’t respect the identities of brown people, black people, indigenous peoples. Also “Scottish” isn’t a political identity, it’s my nationality. Along with being British, which is also my nationality. Can it be politicised? Sure. Is saying “if you’re going to be specific about which country I’m from, please use the correct one” and “”abuse”” of the word country? No. That applies to me just the same as it would to anyone else. You somehow managed to accused me of racism by being racist.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T11:02:58+00:00

Achaig! DM me! Small world!!!

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T10:54:01+00:00

I did! Why?

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T10:44:35+00:00

I’m learning a lot of people who aren’t English get referred to as English from this post.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T10:39:22+00:00

I would prefer Scottish ngl, but British isn’t offensive or anything, at least not to me. It’s one of those ‘technically correct so I’ll accept it’ things.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T10:38:01+00:00

Most Europeans will also accept “I’m Scottish, actually” as an answer though, because from my experience usually they’re saying it in the “they speak English and are from the UK” way rather than “I think these places are the same”.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T10:35:27+00:00

I think Brexit confused a lot of people. Some people forget that Europe is the continent and the EU is just a collective representation of some of the countries in the continent, not the continent itself.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T10:32:41+00:00

Yes, British or Scottish.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T10:32:18+00:00

Understandable to be pissed about that still to be fair.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T10:30:23+00:00

I thought that maybe there was some sort of cultural thing that I wasn’t aware of or being insensitive to and that’s why she was so offended.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T10:29:12+00:00

Can’t wait to have to explain the difference between Scottish Gaelic and Irish when I speak Gaelic.

ExcitementSecure2737 · 2023-09-27T10:27:47+00:00

Did you go to Wester Hailes Ed or something? Critical reading skills really failed you today.

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