>>>>>Just a snap shot of the last say 400 years in Europe will prove a bit confusing. The boundaries of countries changed many times leaving people of a specific ethnicity on one side or the other of the country where they were born. Migrations of Germans for example into Russia (for religious reasons) occurred.
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>>>>>What do you call someone from Europe? That person whom you address may not agree with you.
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>>>>That's the point. There is no country in Europe whose nationality is European (YET - give it a few years - we've already got something like "Citizen of Great Britain and the European Union" on our passports!)
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>>>New Yorker? Texan? Californian? Tennesean? Alabaman? Floridean?
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>>>Indeed, my nationality is not European. And yours is not Kingdomian.
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>>Mine, despite other people's thoughts, is British, not English
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>Aah, you confuse me. And how about the Scotchman then, and the Irish and Walesian?

Scots and Welsh, and Northern Irish are British, part of Great Britain. Southern Ireland is a separate republic.