You are right. It was meant as a compliment, not sarcism. Britain is Anglo-centric, mainy because of Britain's history, which I wont go in to. As much as I am fond of the union, I think it's moment has come and gone, and all the countries that make up the union should break away and set up on their own. Its going to come and so we might as well accept the inevitable. It only needs a political crises to force the hand of the Scottish Assembly to declare Scotland independent from Britain. Wales would probably soon follow. This is why I believe it is important for Englishmen and women to start thinking of themselves as being English. However, to go back to your point, I never think of people of Scotland as being North Britons, but as being Scots.I always think of Northerners as being from Northern England as against Southern England. I think we may being wandering into semantics, which, ofcourse, doesn't invalidate your point one bit.