{"id":36532,"date":"2011-07-08T10:42:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=36532"},"modified":"2013-11-11T02:17:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T07:17:54","slug":"what-the-bleep-is-the-united-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/07\/08\/what-the-bleep-is-the-united-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Bleep is the United Kingdom?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAre you confused about what “Great Britain” really is? \u00a0Do you become perplexed when asked to discern the difference between Britain, England, and the U.K.? \u00a0And what the heck is Wales!? \u00a0(Apologies to Wales.) \u00a0You are not alone! \u00a0CGP Grey<\/a> offers an entertaining explanation that both clears up the questions, and makes us feel less stupid for not understanding them in the first place. \u00a0And you’ll learn some stunning facts about the residuals of empire. \u00a0Enjoy:<\/p>\n

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And if that wasn’t enough, here’s Grey’s historical rendering of how Scotland became a part of Great Britain.<\/p>\n

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Via Blame it on the Voices<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Are you confused about what “Great Britain” really is? \u00a0Do you become perplexed when asked to discern the difference between Britain, England, and the U.K.? \u00a0And what the heck is Wales!? \u00a0(Apologies to Wales.) \u00a0You are not alone! \u00a0CGP Grey offers an entertaining explanation that both clears up the questions, and makes us feel less […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[232,253,1811,1817],"class_list":["post-36532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cultural-imperialismneocolonialism","tag-history","tag-nation-britainthe-u-k","tag-nation-ireland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36532"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58798,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36532\/revisions\/58798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}