Making friends with English people.

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Hi. Are there any English people out there? It doesn't matter what ethnicity you are, as long as your from U.K., New Zealand, Australia, The British Virgin Islands, or if your an English Immigrant (from the United States or any part of the World). I'd be happy to have a conversation.

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Why the BVI? Seems a strange choice? Do you mean anyone that is an English language speaker, or anyone that is from the Commonwealth, or anyone that is from a country that was once in the British Empire, or one that is under British sovereignty, or, or…

Most Americans speak English and most of them are of English ethnicity. A lot of English-language speakers from the Commonwealth countries have British influences but otherwise aren't particularly English.

I'm sure there are many! I am one of them, and am open to conversation if you wish to talk.

well i'm english, mostly anyway, from england.

Aren't there any english people in the B.V.I.'s that I should know about? And like I said it doesn't matter what ethnicity you are as long as you were born from the whole British Empire (which if I'm not mistaking, the British Virgin Island is part of the Empire, even though is a Commonwealth).

No, the British Virgin Islands are a British overseas territory - meaning that they are not part of the UK (or the EU - no non-UK British territory is, apart from Gibraltar) but that they are under the UK's ultimate sovereignty. They are part of the Commonwealth I would imagine as the UK itself is.

What do you mean by "English people in the BVI"? All the legal residents of the BVI are British and have the same citizenship rights as someone from England or Wales. If you mean English immigrants to the BVI then I doubt you'll find them here. I don't know of any people here who are from the British overseas territories.

Do you mean the Anglosphere?

So the British Virgin Island is not completely part of the British Empire? Dang! I gotta look that up.

But that's okay. At least I can make friends with them.

The British Empire hasn't existed for decades now.

All that's left is 14, generally small, isolated (or uninhabited) areas that remain under British sovereignty. I've been to one of them - Gibraltar.

The British Empire doesn't exist any more and the people who live in these territories probably wouldn't be best pleased if you referred to them that way. Most of them have a measure of self-government - Bermuda, for example, is independent in all but name.

Okay. Now I know. Thank you very much.

It's worth noting that these territories are only still British because:

a) They're being heavily funded by the UK Government in order to keep them going (St Helena)
b) They're military bases (SBAs on Cyprus; Gibraltar; BIOT)
c) There are ongoing sovereignty claims from hostile neighbours and actively need a presence there to defend them from attack (Gibraltar; the Falkland Islands)
d) That hostile neighbour has even gone so far as to invade the territory in the recent past (Falkland Islands)
e) They're too small for independence (almost all of them apart from two or three of the larger ones, like Bermuda)
f) They gain rights from remaining British that they would not get if they were independent (easy travel to the EU is considered a plus point for keeping the status-quo in Bermuda)
g) They don't have to pay for their own foreign representation (this only really applies to Bermuda)
h) A certain prestige for some territories in remaining British in order to attract tourism and financial services (Gibraltar; Bermuda)
i) They actively revolted against British plans to pair them off in a federation with other Caribbean islands and see continued British ties as the best way to avoid being taken over (Anguilla)

So there are a lot of reasons.

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