For many Britons, nationality is a matter of cultural ________.

It is therefore, not surprising that to confuse Britain with England can cause ________ offence.

The English are both ________ and defensive of their cultural heritage in the face of intrusion of other cultural influences of Great Britain.

The 1990s, for example, witnessed a ________ of English national identity.

Historically, Scotland was never a country that ________ to conquest.

Opinion surveys suggest that those considering themselves Welsh, ________ British or English, have increased in recent years.

The memory of some events has remained in the ________ of the Scottish.

In the early 19^th century a great many of the tenant farmers and their families were forcibly removed to ________ sheep farming on a major scale.

Ireland was ________ between Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland by an act of the British parliament.

The English identity is of early ________ origin, when they were known as the Angelcynn.

The Welsh poet R.S. Thomas once wrote: “Britishness is a mask. Beneath it there is only one nation, ________.”

Blacks and Asians in England tend to generally identify themselves as ________ rather than ________.

This ________ difference remains one basis on which England, of the UK’s four countries, is sometimes considered to have the least in common with the others.

The 1707 Act of Union merged the ________ and ________ Parliaments into a single Parliament based at Westminster, thereby creating the new state of Great Britain.

The term Scotch, used for the Scottish people, is sometimes considered ________.

According to some interpretation, the origin of the Welsh nation can be traced to the late 4^th and early 5^th centuries, following the ________ departure from Britain.

With a population of ________ 5% of the nation’s total, Wales often feels being overshadowed by England and would like to enjoy more control over its own political, economic and social life.

According to the passage, the majority of Northern Ireland’s people were ________, who wanted to remain within the UK, most of whom were the Protestant descendants of colonists from Great Britain.

The ________ favor the Catholic community, for the number of Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland is fast approaching balance.