How does someone become a Sapper?

Is it possible for someone to become English?

• Someone can become British through the process of naturalisation, but there's really no legal procedure for people born outside of England to become English (they become British and that's it, there's also no current way of someone becoming Welsh/Scottish/N.Irish, but let's stick to England).In your opinions, is there any way someone born outside of England (and isn't from an English background) who gets naturalised as a British citizen can claim to be "English"? That is, is it conceivable that a naturalised British citizen can claim after some time to be English? Also, if you all could please state the part of the UK in which you were born/live in (England/Scotland/Wales/N.Ireland) and your age I'd appreciate very much as I'm very interested to know how people from different places and generations inside the UK feel about this topic, thank you.

• Answer:

  Technically England doesn't exist as a country, neither does Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. We simply don't exist as separate International countries. They are merely regions within the UK. So no, nobody can become *officially* English. However, people can sometimes represent specific "home countries" if they are naturalized in an area or region of the UK. Two examples of this are. Zola Budd South African born runner who was granted a UK passport and ran for the UK in the Olympics. She was entered for the Commonwealth Games as an English competitor but because of politics at the time she was barred from competing. John Barnes was born in Jamaica but played football at international level for England. I was born in England, but live in Scotland. And am old enough to know who Zola Budd is. Incidentally, if this makes a difference, I like England, but I don't feel remotely English. And if I was any good at sport I would opt for and have the right to play for Scotland.