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Someone please explain to this poor American (US) why the UK is rarely considered a part of "Europe?" (I see this a lot, people referring to "Europe and the UK")

The UK likes to put itself apart from Europe, and companies alo usually treat the UK differently from the rest of Europe. Hence, they get mentioned separately.

It may also have some thing to do with the fact that you can also have "Main Land Europe" which does not include the UK, due to the channel between the UK and the rest of europe.

People probably just drop the "main land europe" section

I wonder how much of it is also due to the fact that we speak English, and the rest of europe does not, and as such inreasing familiarity.

What about Ireland? That's part of Europe and is seperated by a lot more than a paltry channel.

The people of the United Kingdom have always been like this...

The Scots are Scots, English are English, etc.: don't tell us we're Brits!

And when it comes to Europe: don't tell us we're Europeans, we're Brits!

It's a bit like how the French always want to go their own way. The Brits are a lot like that, except not French. It annoys me to pieces, because the Brits are pretty much like the Europeans on the continent, including the French people that they love to loathe.

Edited 2006-12-09 12:15

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