Brandy's post last night about how he never thought he'd see a Brit beat the Africans

Starts you thinking about the nature of nationality in this fluid world

Because really, at many levels Mo *is* an African, just like KP *is* a South African and that huge Samoan bloke who plays centre for England in the rugger *is* a Samoan

And yet unlike the other two of those three Mo *feels* like a proper Brit, so I get what Brandy was saying

It's hard to work out what makes someone feel like a Brit - it's not place of birth, because Strauss was born in SA and he feels like a Brit (to me). It's not colour, because we are well past that as a national denominator. Is it voice/accent? Where you spent your childhood? What is it?

Posted By: Old Git, Aug 5, 10:38:06