the pathetic chanting of Americans at the calzaghe fight on saturday

Mate, when you start judging other people based on pure speculation, you have to be careful about that glass house you're in. You looked very foolish. Mate. Have you ever been to Aregentina, or wherever it is you were talking about? I've never heard of it. But, then, I'm American.

 

The United States landmass wise is only marginally smaller then the whole of Europe.

 

what by putting an extra letter in a word :-(

 

It does seem to me like the UK equivalent of a state would be a country. Particularly in the pre-civil war days of American history, American states (and the term was used different then, meaning something much much closer to country than state as we widely them now, even though state can be synonymous with country) were very different than other American states.

People identified themselves, much as I sometimes see UK nationals do, as Virginians, or Georgians, or New Yorkers.

The UK is a country. You don't require duel-citizenship to be both a citizen of the United Kingdom and Wales do you? There are so many arguments that point out that while using the word country is correct, implying that it means some sort of sovereign nation state on the same level as the USA, Mexico, Italy, Saudi Arabia or even Ethiopia for that matter is ridiculous.

Not that wales is any more or less important than any of those places. As has already been discussed, New York may be more "important" than Wales but that doesn't make it a country. Wales may be a country, but to describe it as such while implying that means exactly the same thing as country means for the world's nations is misleading.

 

That just proves that very few people leave the states.

 

Man Calzaghe has really got you brits talking **** hasnt he! I guess one fighter makes you forget about all the years of ownage by us Americans huh

 

Don't you have some flags to go study somewhere? Considering how learned you are, and how dismissive you are of others, I can assume that you are a professor, a doctor, a lawyer, a physicist, a very educated citizen of Wales?

 

many years ago the county system was much more important and in some instances they went to war with each other, i am talking in a historical sense.

 

But there is good reason for that. It's nowhere near as easy for us to travel internationally as it is for Europeans.

 

States and federal government share sovereignty in much the same way as, well, Wales does with the UK government.

This explains the status of state pretty well (despite being a wiki) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._state

 

no i am english and i live in wales, however the part about being very well educated is true

 

so did counties many years ago

 

I don't know the finer points of the UK's parliamentary system (it's not high on my things to learn list, being that it will probably never ever impact my life) but I think that is correct.

In America, states can make laws but they are superceded by the federal government. Brits, is this the same, or about the same, in the UK? If the Welsh assembly writes a law that is in direct contradiction with a UK national law, which beats the other?

 

So, then, as a very educated person, what do you do for a living? I ask only because you're passing judgment on others here and it would be pretty laughable if after all this you are merely some clerk or laborer. You are professor, a doctor?

 

And American local governments, including County governments and City governments also do, even to this day.