Subject:
|
Re: Just where is Scotland?
|
Newsgroups:
|
lugnet.loc.uk
|
Date:
|
Mon, 25 Sep 2000 18:45:34 GMT
|
Viewed:
|
989 times
|
| |
|
|
In lugnet.loc.uk, Lawrence Wilkes writes:
> In lugnet.lego.direct, Scott Arthur writes:
>
> > I am left wondering is LEGO does not understand that the UK, GB, Scotland,
> > England, Northern Ireland and even Wales all have quite strange national
> > identities. To officially consider one country to be part on another just to
> > ease marketing seems to me to be a little crass.
>
>
> I would bet that many folks in England, and even more elsewhere could not tell
> you what England, Great Britain, or the UK actually represent. Geographically
> or politically speaking. They are all the same place to many people.
> E.g. You sometimes notice people chanting "England, England" at a sporting
> event, even though the team is a UK one. (Actually, what is a UK
> chant? "UK...UK..."?)
>
> So why would lego be any different?
>
> Try asking a Yank! I once had a hard time with a Texas secretary who couldnt
> spell Britain, then she confessed she didn't know what it was (i.e. she did
> not know it was the name of a country) - she only knew of England.
>
> regards
> lawrence
|
|
Message is in Reply To:
21 Messages in This Thread:
 
  
- Entire Thread on One Page:
- Nested:
All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:
All | Brief | Compact
|
|
|
|
