How would you answer this, and how would you expect Chinese netizens on Xiaohongshu to answer?

I will link to the thread in the comments because I want you to take a moment and think about it first.

  • Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    In one sense, as a key component of the UK, they already had that chance somewhere between the years of 1600-ish to 1945-ish.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      6 hours ago

      Heh, I think you’ve just pissed off Welsh/Irish/Scottish people with that sentiment.

      • Skua@kbin.earth
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        42 minutes ago

        Ehhhhh we Scots should probably not argue too hard. Unlike the other two we joined mostly-voluntarily and were doing our own small scale empire thing beforehand as well. We were rubbish at it, but I don’t think there are sympathy points for incompetence. The Welsh and Irish definitely got dragged along wthout a say though