Практика английского по видео: UK vs Great Britain vs England Explained
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- Welcome to the United Kingdom and a whole lot more explained by me, CGP Grey.0:00
- The United Kingdom, England, Great Britain, are these three the same place?0:04
- Are they different places?0:07
- Do British people secretly laugh at those who use the terms incorrectly?0:08
- Who knows the answers to these questions?0:10
- I do, and I'm going to tell you right now.0:12
- For the lost, this is the world, this is the European continent, and this is the place we have to untangle.0:14
- The area shown in purple is the United Kingdom.0:18
- Part of the confusion is that the United Kingdom is not a single country, but instead is a country of countries.0:20
- It contains inside of it four co -equal and sovereign nations.0:24
- The first of these is England, shown here in red.0:27
- England is often confused with the United Kingdom as a whole because it's the largest and most populous of the nations, and contains the de facto capital city London.0:29
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- To the north is Scotland, shown in blue, and to the west is Wales, shown in white.0:36
- And, often forgotten, even by those who live in the United Kingdom is Northern Ireland, shown in orange.0:38
- Each country has a local term for the population.0:42
- While you can call them all British, it's not recommended as the four countries generally don't like each other.0:44
- The Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh regard the English as slave -driving colonial masters, no matter that all three have their own devolved parliaments and are allowed to vote on0:48
- English laws despite the reverse not being true, and the English generally guard the rest as rural yokels who spend too much time with their sheep.0:55
- However, as the four constituent countries don't have their own passports, they are all British citizens, like it or not.1:01
- They are British citizens of the United Kingdom, whose full name, by the way, is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.1:05
- So where's Great Britain hiding?1:10
- Right here.1:11
- The area covered in black is Great Britain.1:12
- Unlike England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Great Britain is a geographical rather than a political term.1:14
- Great Britain is the largest island among the British Isles.1:18
- Within the United Kingdom, the term Great Britain is often used to refer to England, Scotland and Wales alone with the intentional exclusion of Northern Ireland.1:20
- This is mostly but not completely true, as all three constituent countries have islands that are not part of Great Britain, such as the Isle of Wight, part of England,1:27
- the Welsh Isle of Anglesey, the Scottish Hebrideens, the Shetland Islands, the Auckland Islands and the Islands of the Clyde.1:33
- The second biggest island in the British Isles is Ireland.1:38
- It's worth noting at this point that Ireland is not a country, like Great Britain is a geographical, not political term.1:40
- The island of Ireland contains on it two countries, Northern Ireland, which we have already discussed, and the Republic of Ireland.1:45
- When people say they are Irish, they are referring to the Republic of Ireland, which is a separate country from the United Kingdom.1:50
- However, both the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom are members of the European Union, even though England in particular likes to pretend that it's an island in the1:54
- Mid -Atlantic rather than 50 kilometres off the coast of France.2:01
- But that's a story for another time.2:03
- To review, the two largest islands in the British Isles are Ireland and Great Britain.2:05
- Ireland has on it two countries, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, while Great Britain mostly contains three, England, Scotland and Wales.2:08
- These last three, when combined with Northern Ireland, form the United Kingdom.2:14
- There are still many unanswered questions, such as why when you travel to Canada is there British royalty on the money?2:17
- To answer this, we need to talk about Empire.2:22
- You can't have gone to school in the English -speaking world without having learned that the British Empire once banned a fourth world's land and governed nearly a fourth world's2:24
- people.2:29
- While it's easy to remember the parts of the British Empire that broke away violently, we often forget how many nations gained independence through diplomacy, not bloodshed.2:30
- These want -to -be nations struck a deal with the Empire, where they continue to recognise the monarchy as the head of state in exchange for a local autonomous parliament.2:36
- To understand how they are connected, we need to talk about the Crown, not the physical Crown that sits behind glass in the Tower of London and earns millions of2:42
- tourist pounds for the UK, but the Crown is a complicated legal entity best thought of as a one -man corporation.2:47
- Who created this corporation?2:52
- God did.2:53
- According to British tradition, all power is vested in God and the monarch is crowned in a Christian ceremony.2:54
- God, however, not wanting to be bothered with micromanagement, conveniently delegates his power to an entity called the Crown.2:58
- While this used to be the physical Crown in the Tower of London, it evolved over time into a legal corporation's soul, able to be controlled only by the ruling3:02
- monarch.3:08
- It's a useful reminder that the United Kingdom is still technically a theocracy, with the reigning monarch acting as both the head of state and the supreme governor of the3:09
- official state religion Anglicanism, such are the oddities that arise when dealing with a thousand -year -old monarchy.3:15
- Back to Canada and the rest, the former colonies that gained their independence through diplomacy and continue to recognise the authority of the Crown are known as the Commonwealth Realm.3:20
- They are, in decreasing order of population, Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Jamaica, the Solomon Islands, believes the Bahamas, Barbados, St.3:27
- Lucia, St.3:33
- Vincent, and the Grenadines, Grenada, Antigua, and Barbuda, St.3:33
- Kitts and Nevis, and Tuvalu.3:35
- All are independent nations but still recognise the monarchy as the head of state even though it has little real power within their borders.3:37
- There are three further entities that belong to the Crown and these are the Crown Dependencies, the Isle of Man, Jersey, and Guernsey.3:42
- Unlike the Commonwealth Realm, they are not considered independent nations but are granted local autonomy by the Crown and British citizenship by the United Kingdom, though the UK does reserve3:47
- the right to overrule the laws of their local assemblies.3:54
- Are we done now?3:57
- Almost, but not quite.3:58
- There are still a couple loose threads, such as this place, the tiny city of Gibraltar on the southern coast of Spain, famous for its rock, its monkeys, and for3:59
- causing diplomatic tension between the United Kingdom and Spain.4:06
- Or what about the Falkland Islands, which caused so much tension between the United Kingdom and Argentina that they went to war over them?4:08
- These places belong in the last group of Crown properties known as British Overseas Territories, but their former name, Crown Colonies, gives away their origin.4:13
- They are the last vestiges of the British Empire.4:20
- Unlike the Commonwealth Realm, they have not become independent nations and continue to rely on the United Kingdom for military and sometimes economic assistance.4:22
- Like the Crown Dependencies, everyone born within their borders is a British citizen.4:28
- The Crown Colonies are, in decreasing order of population, Bermuda, the Cayman Islands, the Turks and Kekos Islands, Gibraltar, the British Virgin Islands, Akratiri and Dikelia, Anguilla, St Helena, the4:31
- Ascension Islands, Trist and Dikuna, Montserrat, the British Indian Ocean Territory, the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, the Falkland Islands, the British Antarctic Territory, and the Pickern Islands.4:39
- For our final Venn Diagram, the United Kingdom is a country situated on the British Isles and is part of the Crown, which is controlled by the monarchy.4:47
- Also part of the Crown and the British Isles are the Crown Dependencies.4:52
- The independent nations of the former Empire that still recognize the Crown are the Commonwealth Realm, and the non -independent remnants of the former Empire are the British Overseas Territories.4:54
- Thank you very much for watching!5:03
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