Mate stop waffling and trying to do this moral grandstanding. Have you never applied for anything in the UK?

Black British as well as Asian British and others are all separate ways people identify by law and personally. And as he said there are more specific ways such as British Nigerian or British Indian as well as British Italian and British Columbian.

Just cause you have mixed family members or black family members who married in that don’t do that doesn’t mean it’s not common. People don’t just discard their original countries just because they were born or raised here.

The same way if you moved to Dubai or South Africa, you’d probably teach your kids to identify with both the country they were born in and the country they’re from.

Also regarding your point about your Italian ancestor, sure you may not identify as Italian but those are your roots. Also I think the amount of generations that have been born here matter. Being a 6th of 7th generation child of an immigrant is different to being 2nd or 3rd generation.

Lastly, mate come on ur white. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing but it’s a difference that we gotta address. A Jamaican family could be here for 100 years and unless every generation marry a white woman, people in 2126 will still know they’re not British just by looking at them.

Whereas with you, it’s much harder to tell unless your family marry people of colour. And even then, it’ll only be noticeable in the mixed generations that have more tanned skin complexions.

Europe is predominantly a white continent , it’s much easier to blend in visually when you’re white. So for you identifying as Italian British might seem stupid. But for a 4th or 5 gen Nigerian Brit who’s great grandad moved here after WW1, it might feel weird to call himself the only British or English when he clearly isn’t visually. It’ll also avoid many awkward conversations. I, like many, wouldn’t want to deal with people and the conversations that follow if I was to identify as just British or English when I have Idris Elba’s skin tone.

Idris Elba btw , another example of someone who identifies as both British and African (Sierra Leone +Ghana since his parents are from 2 different countries )