What Does It Mean To Be British?

A British person, is someone who lives in Britain and have a UK passport (although people in Northern Ireland who do not live in Britain may also have a UK passport).  A British person is someone who lives in or comes from England, Scotland or Wales or one of the islands surrounding the UK which are called the British Isles (this does not include Ireland, which is a country of its own).

To be British means to a subject of the Queen, although many British people do not support the monarchy.

Britishness is hard to define, just as European is.  Many foreigners would say that being British means cups of tea, bowler hats, stiff upper lip, but those are trademarks of being English more than anything.  The Scots and the Welsh are quite different from that.

Being British is an abstract term.  Being British means not being Spanish, not being French, not being American or even Canadian.

Born and Bred in Britain.