[lostalex]

The truth is they really arn't separate countries. The individual 50 US states are just as if not more independent as/than the UK "countries". The rest of the world see's the UK as a country, not england/scot/wales/N.Ire.

There is only 1 seat at the UN, called "Great Britain" there is not a Scotland or Wales or England seat at the UN. In Iraq and Afghanistan, there is a British military, not an English army and a Scottish army, etc..

I think you'll find more cultural differences between Californians and New Yorkers, than you'd find between the English and Scottish.

Really the "countries" in the UK are states, not countries, by American definitions at least.

Just an outsiders point of view. Take it for whatever it's worth.