Why do people in the UK often pretend they're not in Europe?

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Possibly because the UK Is its own island and is not connected by land, also it has its own currency (POUND) while mainland europes currency is EURO, and in mainlad europe its all different countries that speak their own separate language while in UK they obviously only speak English as that where the language oriiginated. It is a bit more individual than the rest of europe.