Do You Identify With This Sceptred Isle?

In some ways I do, e.g. liking cricket, the beauty of the hills, having a quiet pint down the pub. But then again it's obviously a chance event that I happened to be born in this country - at least I certainly had no say in the matter. So the idea of loving your country seems strange to me. I suppose it comes down to basic tribalism and group psychology. Perhaps there is something innate about it. What I find very odd is people who sing the praises of their country's historical acts, when they weren't even born - er yes, and your part in defeating Napoleon was...?

 

I wouldn't say yes, but there are things, probably induced by previous generations, that I would miss!

The Sunday lunch..Which is falling from favour with my kids!
The boxing day greet..Down to the pub!

I love finding out about my ancestors, and what they were like..

But really, I like to travel, and often think, I could live here!

What keeps me here, is the family I've made!

 

I have reason to hate the BBC.

I love London.

I don't like the inequality and austerity policy.

I have no time for jingoistic nationalism.

I'd prefer to live in France or Spain.

We used to do good music but I haven't heard much that's good for awhile.

It's a shame the Labour party is screwed under Corbyn,but I don't really care.

"Desperation is the English way," as Pink Floyd so aptly put it.

 

Also,I don't understand why everyone hates us,but they all want to come here.

 

I run out of likes! But I like this! Oh how true!

 

I Love this country I have been all around the world But there is nowhere else I would rather call home

http://youtu.be/Ak-Vh-8hAAQ

 

My money says you voted for Brexit.

 

http://youtu.be/KySFp0w7-hE

 

^^^...... So True.....



Cheers Glen.

 

Things I like about Britain-

Hills
Beer and whisky
Cheese
TV programs
Music

Things I don't like-

The government
The weather
Stupid people
The BBC
The war on drugs

 

As a guy I identify more with the isle of Man.

 

FIXED...... :biker:



Cheers Glen.

 

Hope springs eternal

 

Best cheese in the world mate.

The BBC are a terrorist organisation.

 

Now you're getting really absurd

 

If you say so.

 

A part of me might like you to think that...

But the truth is I didn't vote in the referendum.

 

I dislike nationalism in general. To me it seems somewhat inane and regressive.

I see bad things in our history, as well as some good. Much the same as many other countries. Unfortunately in the case of Britain we were once the leading world power with a big empire, and we're just now in the post imperial decline stage. I wish the red white and blue waving folks would come to realize that the hubris and arrogance of the past doesn't serve us now, and will do so even less in the future.

I'd identify myself as a human being in the first place, and European second. In one way it's because my ancestry is a mix of English, French and Irish perhaps, but I've never really identified with the culture in which I happened to be born. There's a unique kind of British uptightness that really switches me off.

On the other hand I'm glad I wasn't born in America, China or some third world hell hole but in a modern European country (yes we are part of European culture and no vote or political shenanigan will change that).

 

Here's the full quote from Shakespeare. Probably he was in propagandist mode when he wrote it.

This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,--
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. - Richard II.