(July 26, 2013 at 3:09 am)Red Celt Wrote:(July 25, 2013 at 5:49 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Honestly I myself tend to lump in the innovations of England, Germany, and the US together quite frequently, myself. It's not meant to dismiss the innovations of English or German innovators, quite the opposite; the US is a cosmopolitan nation [the fucking unmitigated bullshit by our government nothwithstanding], very much built by many hands. Personally I think the terminology should just be "western," since there's a lot of different nations in the western hemisphere that cooperate and build and innovate on a grand scale.
OK. See, now... what you did there, is you took the UK and you dropped Scotland, Wales and N.Ireland like so much trash set for a garbage bin.
England is not a synonym of the UK.
Well I also didn't mention Spain, France, Portugal, Italy... I just named off whatever first came to mind.