We're a mongrel nation and the better for it.We apparently don't have any. Everything we think is 'English' culture we have stolen from elsewhere. Nothing to celebrate at all.
Well not quite true, we are to celebrate all other's above any we may believe to be our own.
Not trawled through the pages here, but expect plenty telling us 'George wasn't even English' yadda yadda yawn... ?
Only in Scotland, and possibly Islington.They put you in prison if you say you're English....
We apparently don't have any. Everything we think is 'English' culture we have stolen from elsewhere. Nothing to celebrate at all.
Well not quite true, we are to celebrate all other's above any we may believe to be our own.
Not trawled through the pages here, but expect plenty telling us 'George wasn't even English' yadda yadda yawn... ?
ExactlyWe're a mongrel nation and the better for it.
Both my parents were Irish but my brother and me were born here and consider ourselves 100% English. That's as it should be. Open societies welcome outside ideas and people and succeed as a result. Insular societies wither and die.
Just had to explain who St George was to my wife.
I went on to mention St Patrick and then told her that the Welsh had one as well.
Do the Scotch have a saint?
Right. Forgot about him.St Andrew, he wasn't even born on this continent :)
Scotch isn't that a drink?Just had to explain who St George was to my wife.
I went on to mention St Patrick and then told her that the Welsh had one as well.
Do the Scotch have a saint?
Neither was George until someone edits wiki and it gets repeated verbatim with the rest of the thread.St Andrew, he wasn't even born on this continent :)