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Post by ham on Feb 8, 2015 10:04:50 GMT
Last night I went to a cultural event .it was a fantastic night with many nationalities sharing their food,songs,stories ,dances etcand many came in national dress.all were proud to share their customs except when it came to the British to share they just criticised words of songs and generally mocked us as an nation.why can't the British be proud to share our culture, we have a wealth of things even if it is regional.so I am British well English to be precise and proud of it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2015 11:26:20 GMT
Sorry I'm a little confused by your post Ham.
Who was critising the wordse of the songs and doing the mocking, British people, or the ethnic people?
I'm a bit confused?
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Post by serrakunda on Feb 8, 2015 15:01:45 GMT
I think many english people in particular would be quite hard pushed to describe our culture. We have no real national dress as such. Music, the folk scene is still very popular I think. Maybe it's partly about where you live. The old festivals are still celebrated in cornwall. Where I am in the Midlands, there is quite an active Morris organisation, the dancers are often outside our local pub in full regalia. They open our local May Day festival. Some if the local 'yoof' are mildly amused by men wearing flowery hats and shaking bells at each other but other than that they are very popular.
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Post by ham on Feb 8, 2015 18:58:30 GMT
Sorry it was the British doing the mocking of our culture. They had based their ideas to represent Britain around the last night of the proms but then just took the mick out of the event.why just not be proud that this major event takes place every years that many find a fantastic event.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2015 19:31:03 GMT
Aah as I thought, but just wanted clarification.
I do think it is hard for the British to be patriotic without being seen to be arrogant or racist.
Think of the way the BNP hijacked the English flag.
Sadly now it is seen as representing football or racism instead of flying the flag for your country as they do in America or other countries round the world.
Think it's time you English reclaimed it for yourselves.
Glad I'm Irish me.
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Post by mudlark on Feb 8, 2015 22:09:49 GMT
Glad I am form Cornwall....I think the whole idea of English pride and loyality has been hijacked...I love England..I love its countryside, I love the regions, I love the accents, I love the English seasons, I love the great poetry and art that this damp and misty place has inspired. And we are a pretty crazy bunch... the Scots, The Irish, the Welsh and always forgotten the Cornish, and the there are the Anglians, the Fen people, the Scousers, Mancunians, and a whole host of others I don't know the official names for... we are all in this tiny island... we are all here ..together... don't forget that word...
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Post by serrakunda on Feb 8, 2015 22:27:48 GMT
I am first and foremost a Scouser
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Post by mudlark on Feb 9, 2015 18:52:29 GMT
I spent 10 fantastic years in Liverpool.....it was then an inspirational place, and scousers, they mocked my southern accent but they did it with warmth and humour!
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Post by larsti on Feb 9, 2015 22:46:23 GMT
I know what you mean ham but on the other hand it is a very British thing to mock ourselves.
Apparently Dad's army didn't go down well in Germany (I suppose for obvious reasons!) but apparently it was incomprehensible to the Germans that we should find our own incompetence funny. I think we were told that by a Dutch person once when we were on holiday. I think he said the Dutch loved it but the Germans hated it.
I consider myself British more than Scottish and would be sad if the Union disintegrated, but I suppose thats whole different issue.
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Post by corkwing on Feb 10, 2015 10:03:30 GMT
It's because we don't touch each other socially.
Bear with me here...
Researchers studied people interacting in cafes. In Puerto Rico, in the set time, they touched each other a shocking and completely uncalled for 180 times. The French mauled at each other 110 times. Americans did it twice, at times of high emotion. The British... not at all.
Touch releases that lovely hormone oxytocin.
Scientists in Holland gave some research students squirts of oxytocin and found that their pride in their nation went up. Other researchers have similarly found that increased oxytocin levels make you really, really, really like your own group.
And so the answer is that we should start pawing at each other like those dreadful foreigners and then we'd like them even less and start to swell, like Captain Mainwaring, with national pride.
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Post by wibbley on Feb 10, 2015 21:33:49 GMT
Morris dancing is quite funny  |
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