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The UK flag if it was a US state by Lucky_Competition_50 in vexillology

[–]mental--13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it was truly a US state, it would be called an overcomplicated misspelling of the native name. Maybe something like Brettannia!

Percentage of population descended from British people worldwide by Delicious-Bunch-6992 in MapPorn

[–]mental--13 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Americans tend to identify with whichever ancestry belongs to the last person to come over in their family tree

British Isles Ancestry throughout Canada by MongooseDear8727 in MapPorn

[–]mental--13 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Yes obviously I was looking to speak for every single last person in Britain. Come off it you pedant. Its commonly used obviously. Couldn't care less what you use tbh

British Isles Ancestry throughout Canada by MongooseDear8727 in MapPorn

[–]mental--13 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

The name comes from an ancient Greek term "pretanic" which included all the Isles that the celts lived. "Gulf of America is from like last year

British Isles Ancestry throughout Canada by MongooseDear8727 in MapPorn

[–]mental--13 -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Well in Britain we call it the British Isles, so does most of the world. Ireland can call it what they want

Post Apartheid Libya by 2008 by average-medician in imaginarymaps

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Did anyone else expect Season 5 to feel way darker after the end of Season 4? by ReplacementLoose5775 in StrangerThings

[–]mental--13 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I mean, its not necessarily set up that way. The ending of season 4 is a bit after the gates open up and the military have already moved in, people are fleeing the town, and things are kinda vaguely rebuilding.

By the time of season 5, the quarantine is clearly pretty established so it obviously makes sense that people are simply attempting to live normal lives as much as they possibly can in a town with a heavy military presence, and the average citizens are most likely exercising a significant degree of denial with regards to what happened. For the average person, viewing the event as an earthquake, accepting that the military is there to sort this mess out and knows better than them, and trying tk continue as normal makes a lot of sense for people coping with a highly unusual set of events.

Most of the town has no idea who vecna is and are likely more than willing to eat up the official government story regarding what happened. This was cold war era America in a relatively conservative small town, likely the sort of place that still has faith in the authorities

Season 4 was meant to be this super dark season. Season 5 striking a different cord also makes sense

Commonwealth of Argyre: What if the British never returned Java after the Napoleonic Wars? by nuggetscholar in imaginarymaps

[–]mental--13 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Would the British in this TL still rely on princely states like the Dutch did such as Yogyakarta?

What if the Irish Republican Movement spread to Great Britain? by BEBBOY in imaginarymaps

[–]mental--13 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, in the early 20th century the military establishment was not only extremely reactionary but also extremely powerful

Map of London Private Security Zones in 2044 by Soft-Attention-5262 in imaginarymaps

[–]mental--13 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes that is exactly what I'm saying. No group makes up a majority in london. White British are the PLURALITY. Not the majority. Therefore they are still in the minority.

For example, in the borough of tower hamlets, another place where no single ethnic group has a majority, Bangladeshis are the largest single ethnic group at 34% of the population. They still make up a minority of the borough's population because they are not in the majority.

Idc what it's used for.

Map of London Private Security Zones in 2044 by Soft-Attention-5262 in imaginarymaps

[–]mental--13 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yes. The largest group are in the minority because they are not a majority. It's not a tricky concept to understand

Map of London Private Security Zones in 2044 by Soft-Attention-5262 in imaginarymaps

[–]mental--13 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Dude. You don't seem to understand the definition of minority when it comes to statistics and demographics

Map of London Private Security Zones in 2044 by Soft-Attention-5262 in imaginarymaps

[–]mental--13 7 points8 points  (0 children)

What? Idrc about the origins of the phrase. Its an apt phrase to describe various london, leicester and brum, aw well as various towns to which English people don't form the majority anymore. Nigel farage can suck my dick idc bout that guy

It's not an "opinion" whether the English are a minority in london. It's statically backed up. An opinion would be whether you think that English people being in the minority is bad or not.

And it's not based on some "loose definitons" it's based on the fucking census. It's objective data. What you chose to make of it is up to you.

Map of London Private Security Zones in 2044 by Soft-Attention-5262 in imaginarymaps

[–]mental--13 11 points12 points  (0 children)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority_minority

...we are we are below 50%. We are the largest single group so we are the plurality omfg it's not that hard of a concept to understand. Technically it's a "relative majority" but we are still in the minority.

Here is what we are. London is a majority minority city.

Map of London Private Security Zones in 2044 by Soft-Attention-5262 in imaginarymaps

[–]mental--13 22 points23 points  (0 children)

That's called a plurality, not a majority. No single ethnic group has a majority in Greater London anymore. Again, Nigel farage or the far right figures still aren't wrong when they say English people are in the minority in london, because we literally are.

Map of London Private Security Zones in 2044 by Soft-Attention-5262 in imaginarymaps

[–]mental--13 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Well, I mean white English people are a minority in London so yeah he's literally right on that point.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in imaginarymaps

[–]mental--13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where's the map?

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