What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British.
I am not the easiest guy to live with. It is probably the lack of stability in my life.