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Debate Score:26
Arguments:25
Total Votes:28
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Is British a race?

Yes

Side Score: 7
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No

Side Score: 19
1 point

A group of people linked together by common descent. So if I hypothetically said that I didn't like British people, due to their being British I guess I am being a racist.

Side: yes
MKIced(2511) Disputed
1 point

I would consider this a form of nationalism rather than racism. It'd be racist if you said you hated the Bristish because they're white... well, most of them anyway.

Side: No
1 point

A group of people linked together by common descent.

We are not linked by common descent. The Scots are Celtic, whereas the English and Welsh are Anglo-Saxon or Norman.

Side: No
1 point

This is essentially a linguistic debate.

If you define race in certain ways, then British would fall under that definition. Define race in a different way and British ceases to be a race.

So, I will say 'yes,' simply because there are definitions of the word "race" that would include British, and therefore British is a race in at least one sense.

Side: yes
1 point

Britain is really a bunch of immagrants wanting to start a new life (much like America and America's a race isn't it?).but the only reason Britain isn't a nation is that Ireland want to be independant.but from my point of I prefer Britain to England.

Side: yes
2 points

well, put a welshman in the same group as a englishman, I DARE YOU! it is very dangerous to call a welshman a englishman.

Side: No
1 point

HAHAHA yeaahh

Call anybody english tbh...

Except americunts... that's more of an improvement amirite?

Side: No
1 point

lol true. the British empire is made up of a crap load of ethnicities. primary the Angelo Saxons. the reason is during the dark ages and before the British isles were raided and pillaged and crap causing a mixture of cultures and ethnicities in their land kinda like what you would see if you walked in down town new york. that a side, the British are not a race like the Mexicans are not a race, they are a nationality.

Side: No
1 point

A large division of mankind with whom have distinct physical characteristics. British people are white, white people are a race. Therefore Brits cannot be a race of their own.

Side: No
1 point

Britain is a nation not a race, therefore British people form a nation, not a race. A race is a genetic set, like if you were to say someone is Hispanic then you would automatically know they had dark hair, dark eyes, and dark skin.

Side: No
1 point

Britain is a nation

No it is not. Britain is a (sacred) island. The United Kingdom is a country, composed of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, as well as several overseas territories.

Side: No
Dena(13) Disputed
1 point

Whatever bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla haha 50 characters:)

Side: yes

No, British peoples are not a part of some 'British Race'; rather, they are members of the Germanic race, being descended from the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, and Normans - all of which were Germanic tribes. They are also Celtic (~100BC), though that is minimal after the influx of Romans (~AD) and the aforementioned Germans (~600AD).

Side: No

Finally, somebody who understands. You would be amazed at the number of people who cannot even understand that Britain contains three countries, let alone its complex history of invasion and interbreeding.

Side: No
1 point

I'm 100% sure I've explained this, but it is worth repeating... apparently for eternity.

There is only one race of human. Black, white, red, yellow, tan, and other flesh colored people are all the same.

Exacty.

Like as in 99.8% DNA the same. Shaq to a midget white chick... all the same race. "What? but that can't be true!" Yeah it is. A chimp and an identical in appearance spider monkey have less in common genetically than any two humans on earth.

Differences are all due to short term genetics and/or culture.

Take a midget Aborigine, raise them in a bubble, and short term differences in genetics aside, they will act/think/feel much the same as one of those giants from that one town in China with all the tall people.

Us humans killed all of our competition. All we have left are other humans... yet still douches want to separate the human race further.

This shit has to end.

I beg those dip shit white power fucks Silith whatever and that other dude to even try to argue with their bs.

All racism deep down stems from cowardice. And they never ever reply when I begin to argue with them because they are pathetic bitches...

(Yeah, I know this debate isn't all serious like that, but I had it on my mind so was already to go)

Side: No

We (the British) are a people forged through the interbreeding of many other peoples, Celtic, Germanic, Scandinavian and so on. We are called British because we inhabit the island of Britain (Dearest Blighty), not because we are a race.

Side: No
1 point

Nope.

I consider myself British but not English.

British is more of a general term applied to anybody from UK

Side: No
1 point

yeah, I do to

Great Britain sounds a lot better than England or United Kingdom and anyway lots of French people hate England so I consider myself British

Side: No
-1 points

British people are white

Is this one of those debates where the debate creator shows up a few hours later and says his little brother took his laptop?

Side: No

Why am I getting downvoted for pointing out the stupidity of not only creating a debate asking "Is British a race?", but going even further with an asinine comment like "British people are white".?

I have to laugh, but it's very odd.

Side: No