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

[Kasz216]

Samus Aran said:

KylieDog said:
Because we ruled half the world.

More like a quarter. Let's not forget that Canada, the thirtheen colonies(USA) and Australia weren't all that important back then. 

 

I'm not sure what sentence A has to do with sentence B.  Unless your talking about the world based on relative importance.

Which would be ironic since in fact the british empire at it's height did cover 1/4th the earths land.