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すごい早口.で有名な母国向教育ビデオ CGP Grey （Colin Gregory Palmer Grey 氏）
（1981- 英国人： 政治・経済・英国文化.の.教育動画を個人で作成中｡)

YouTubeに約180本近くある。 2011初作のこの動画 「英国の国家形態」が特に良い｡

オークション並の早さだが linking（連結）が少なく、図説なので大体わかる。
ソフトな英国語。 ゲーム感覚で聴くと面白く、英国の国体が分かりやすい。

難　05分　265wpm　2011年 Grey作　　

字幕 ： 開始後 で字幕On/Off､ で言語選択。文字ｻｲｽﾞはｵﾌﾟｼｮﾝから｡
　　　　　日本語字幕はない

★下記英文はポップアップ辞書が使えます｡

Welcome to the United Kingdom (and a whole lot more) explained by me, C. G. P. Grey The United Kingdom, England, Great Britain? Are these three the same place? Are they different places? Do British people secretly laugh those who use the terms wrongly?

Who knows the answers to these questions? I do and I'm going to tell you right now. For the lost(迷子) is the world, this is the European continent and this is the place we have to untangle（解きほぐす）.

The area shown in purple is the United Kingdom. Part of the confusion is that the United Kingdom is not a single country but is instead a country of countries. It contains inside of it four coequal（同格の）and sovereign（君主）nations.

The first of these is England — shown here in red. England is often confused with the United Kingdom as a whole because it's the largest and most populous of the nations and contains the de facto（事実上の）capital city, London. To the north is Scotland, shown in blue and to the west is wales, shown in white. And, often forgotten even by those who live in the United Kingdom, is Northern Ireland shown in orange.

Each country has a local term for the population（住民の呼称）. While you can call them all 'British' it's not recommended as the four countries generally don't like each other. The Northern Irish, Scottish and Welsh regard the English as slave-driving colonial masters — no matter that all three have their own devolved Parliaments and are allowed to vote on English laws despite the reverse not being true — and the English generally regard the rest as rural yokels（田舎者）who spend too much time with their sheep.

However, as the four constituent countries（構成国）don't have their own passports, they are all British Citizens, like it or not.They are British Citizens of the United Kingdom — whose full name by the way is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland（英国の正式名）. So where's Great Britain hiding? Right herhe area covered in black is Great Britain.

Unlike England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Great Britain（ｸﾞﾚｰﾄﾌﾞﾘﾃﾝ島）is
a geographical rather than a political term. Great Britain is the largest island among the British Isles（ﾌﾞﾘﾃﾝ諸島＝ｲｷﾞﾘｽ諸島とも言う).

Within the United Kingdom（英国）, the term 'Great Britain'（ｸﾞﾚｰﾄﾌﾞﾘﾃﾝ） is often used to refer to England, Scotland and Wales alone with the intentional exclusion of Northern Ireland.

This is mostly, but not completely true, as all three constituent countries have islands that are not part of Great Britain such as The Isle of Wight, part of England, the Welsh Isle of Anglesey and the Scottish Hebrides, The Shetland Islands, Orkney Islands, Islands of the Clyde.

The second biggest island in the British Isles is Ireland（ｱｲﾙﾗﾝﾄﾞ島）. It is worth noting that Ireland is not a country. Like Great Britain, it is a geographical, not political, term. The Island of Ireland（ｱｲﾙﾗﾝﾄﾞ島）contain on it two countries, Northern Ireland — which we have already discussed — and the Republic of Ireland（ｱｲﾙﾗﾝﾄﾞ共和国）.

When people say they are 'Irish' they are referring to the Republic of Ireland which is a separate country from the United Kingdom. However, both the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom are members of the European Union even though England often likes to pretend that it's an Island in the mid-atlantic rather than 50km off the cost of France. But that's a story for another time.

To review: The two largest islands in the British Isles（ﾌﾞﾘﾃﾝ諸島）are Ireland（ｱｲﾙﾗﾝﾄﾞ島）and Great Britain（大ﾌﾞﾘﾃﾝ島). Ireland has on it two countries — the republic of ireland and northern ireland, while Great Britain (mostly) contains three: England, Scotland and Wales. These last three, when combined with northern Ireland form the United Kingdom.

There are still many unanswered questions. Such as, why, when you travel to Canada is there British Royalty on the money? To answer this, we need to talk about Empire. You can't have gone to school in the English-speaking world without having learned that the British Empire once spanned a 1/4th the worlds land and governed nearly a 1/4th its people. While it is easy to remember the part of the empire that broke away violently... We often forget how many nations gained independence through diplomacy, not bloodshed.

These want-to-be nations struck a deal with the empire where they continued to recognize the monarchy（王室）as the head of state in exchange for a local, autonomous（自治の）parliament. To understand how they are connected, we need to talk about the crown. Not the physical crown that sits behind glass in the tower of London and earns millions of tourist pounds for the UK but the crown as a complicated legal entity best thought of a one-man corporation.

Who created this corporation? God Did. According to British Tradition all power is vested in God and the monarch is crowned in a Christian ceremony. God however — not wanted to be bothered with micromanagement — conveniently delegates his power to an entity called the crown. While this used to be the physical crown in the tower of london — it evolved over time into a legal corporation sole able to be controlled only by the ruling monarch.

It's a useful reminder that the United Kingdom is still technically a theocracy（神権政治）with the reigning monarch acting as both the head of state and the supreme governor of the official state religion: Anglicanism（英国国教会主義）. Such are the oddities（奇異）that arise when dealing with a 1,000 year-old Monarchy. Back to Canada and the rest. The former colonies that gained their independence through diplomacy and continue to recognize that authority of the crown are known as the Commonwealth Realm（英連邦王国）.

They are, in decreasing order of population: Canada, Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Jamaica, The Solomon Islands, Belize, The Bahamas, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Tuvalu.

All are independent nations but still recognize the monarchy as the head of state even though it has little real power within their borders. There are three further entities that belong to the crown and these are the Crown Dependencies（王室属領）: The Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey. Unlike the Commonwealth Realm（英連邦王国）, they are not considered independent nations, but are granted local autonomy（自治体）by the crown and British Citizenship（英国市民権）by the United Kingdom — though the UK does reserve the right to over-rule the laws of there local assemblies.

Are we all done "now"? Almost, but not quite. There are still a couple of loose threads, such as this place: The tiny city of Gibraltar on the Southern Cost of Spain famous for its rock, its monkeys and for causing diplomatic tension between the United Kingdom and Spain. Or what about the Falkland Islands? Which caused so much tension between the United Kingdom and Argentina that they went to war over them.

These places belong in the last group of crown properties know as: British Overseas Territories（海外領土）. But their former name — crown colonies（直轄植民地） — gives away their origins. They are the last vestiges（名残り）of the British Empire. Unlike the Commonwealth Realm, they have not become independent nations and continue to rely on the United Kingdom for military and (sometimes) economic assistance. Like the Crown Dependencies（王室属領）, everyone born in their borders is a British Citizen.

The Crown colonies（直轄植民地）are, in decreasing order of population: Bermuda, Cayman Islands,Turks and Caicos Islands, Gibraltar, The British Virgin Islands, Akrotiri and Dhekelia, Anguilla, Saint Helena, Ascension Islands, Tristan da Cunha, Montserrat, British Indian Ocean Territory, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Falkland Islands, British Antarctic Territory, Pitcairn Islands.

For our final Venn diagram（ベン図：集合の図式化）, the United Kingdom（英国）is a country situated on the British Isles(ﾌﾞﾘﾃﾝ諸島）and is part of The Crown which is controlled by the monarchy. Also part of the crown and the British Isles are the crown dependencies（王室属領）.

The independent nations of the former empire that still recognize the crown（王位）are the Commonwealth Realm（英連邦王国) and the non-independent remnants（残り）of the former empire are the British Overseas Territories（海外領土）.

Thank you very much for watching.
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