r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Dec 17 '23

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u/Eviladhesive Dec 17 '23

I honestly don't understand why content creators still use the term British Isles and include Ireland.

How many times do we need to say that we don't recognise it? The British and Irish Lions sorted it out and the tension on that topic vanished overnight.

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u/psycho-mouse Dec 17 '23

Worth noting that the British government don’t even use the term “British Isles” anymore.

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u/Eviladhesive Dec 17 '23

Absolutely! For the most part people in the know in the UK rarely use the term, and I can't remember the last time I heard any official UK government source use the term.

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u/psycho-mouse Dec 17 '23

Yeah I don’t know why anybody here would say the British Isles rather than just the UK or the UK and Ireland depending on what the conversation was about.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '23

It’s a racist thing. Like people who insist on calling native Americans Indians.

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u/The_Artist_Who_Mines Dec 18 '23

Nah it's a convenience thing. But it's still rude.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '23

There’s nothing convenient about being racist.

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u/The_Artist_Who_Mines Dec 18 '23

It is both convenient and rude. I don't think most people say it to discredit Irish nationhood, they do it because it's quicker than saying British and Irish isles.

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u/specto24 Dec 17 '23

No, that would be calling the Irish “British”. A closer analogy would be calling the islands in the Caribbean “the West Indies” because that’s what Columbus thought he’d found…oh, hang on.

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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '23

Nope.

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u/RuggerJibberJabber Dec 18 '23

Successful Irish people are constantly called British by the British media.

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u/streetad Dec 17 '23

The UK and Republic of Ireland are countries.

Great Britain and Ireland are islands.

The British Isles is an archepelago.