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Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom
SuchFriends - Members of the Commonwealth are NOT British! They all have independence from us, by and large.
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Massively tricky one - obviously, you know the stories of a load of our colonial brethren from the WIndies coming over in the 50s to re-build Britain, clean our toilets and drive our buses? A lot of those coloured fellows were a little pissed off that the British government said they'd not be shat on, when they were. Not shat on in an apartheid sense, but a great many didn't receive the warmest of welcomes.
There's also the fact that a lot of the former Commonwealth have different rights to citizenship (before EU explansion) than, say, the Chinese do. The precise vagaries of cultural/ national identity are very tricky to negotiate - err with caution, my good man.