mikeyjh
Well-known member
Apply the litmus test, eg.
If you were in a foreign country and someone asked you where are you from, how would you answer?
a) Brighton
b) Sussex
c) England
d) Great Britain [I'm British]
e) UK
f) Europe
If you were somewhere in the UK and someone asked you where are you from, how would you answer?
a) Moulsecoomb / Roedean [ie district of Brighton]
b) Brighton
c) Sussex
d) England
e) Great Britain [I'm British]
My take on "proud" is that you will use the location that you would like to portray yourself as from that you believe will show you in a positive light.
I'm sure there are some people who are the opposite of proud [ashamed?] of where they are from and will avoid mentioning the location at all costs.
Just an angle, like .....
Rather than the place that would show you in a positive light, you could just respond based upon what was accurate and a place that they would be likely to have heard of. So I wouldn't say Shoreham-by-Sea, I say England, 50 miles south of London, on the coast. In terms of where I grew up, I'm not going to say a village in Derbyshire, I'd say mid/north of England.