23-09-2018, 02:16 PM
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Re: Are you proud to be British?
Originally Posted by shropshiregirl
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And so you should too Roxy, same as we English, Welsh and Irish. With regard to being English usually comes the pride in being a Londoner, Brummy, Mancunian, Yorkie, Lancastrian and in my own case - Salopian and so on. We are most definitely still tribal, even in these modern times.
Although I find it sad to see the way this country is going at the moment, I still live in hope that the tide will turn.
However, for that to happen it really depends on us. After all, we elect the idiot politicians. Consequently, what happens in future is really down to us.
The unfortunate thing is that there is now an increasing number of people - mostly young people, it appears - who seem to have little interest in making the country a better place.
There is far too much 'self self self' these days.
23-09-2018, 02:20 PM
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I'm proud to be English/British and this meme was posted on a 'vote leave' site. I actually agree with it.The same people who settled here and their families will now complain and try to overthrow party leaders or governments. Who the heck do they think they are ?
Obviously they never had relatives who died in the WWI , enabling Britain to be a place of refuge for them in WWII.
23-09-2018, 02:24 PM
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Re: Are you proud to be British?
Originally Posted by Puddle Duck
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I'm proud to be English/British and this meme was posted on a 'vote leave' site. I actually agree with it. The same people who settled here and their families will now complain and try to overthrow party leaders or governments. Who the heck do they think they are ?
Obviously they never had relatives who died in the WWI , enabling Britain to be a place of refuge for them in WWII.
23-09-2018, 02:28 PM
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Re: Are you proud to be British?
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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Any Country that does well for itself does so at cost to others whether it's through trade or invasion. People are no different. You often flaunt your wealth, that is always at someone else's cost. The rich make the poor so to speak.
23-09-2018, 02:37 PM
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Re: Are you proud to be British?
Be proud of your country, homeland, home. Keep close to your heart your land, people (including immigrants who want to assimilate and become productive citizens) and culture. Being proud has nothing to do with working on issues from within. This business of downplaying apologizing for what we are is ridiculous.History is loaded with cultures that became so apathetic that when some reich came rolling into town with spider flags they stood limply with their arms hanging down at their sides thinking, "Meh, what difference could it make?"
I'm proud to be an American and I'm proud of my country. Period. Wherever you are, I hope you are the same.
23-09-2018, 02:44 PM
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Re: Are you proud to be British?
Originally Posted by shropshiregirl
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I'm very proud to be English, British and a citizen of the United Kingdom. and hold up two fingers to all those who would put this country down whilst forgetting the cost it took for their freedom to even criticise the same."Away wi yeh" as my mum used to say.Okay, we may well be going through a bad patch at the moment with what seems similar to the pincer movements surrounding this country during WW11, but this is just one of those "moments in time". We will get through it as we always do, and good times will eventually return, life will go on with us enjoying the best freedoms in the world. We are British!
RULE BRITANNIA !
23-09-2018, 03:26 PM
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Re: Are you proud to be British?
Originally Posted by Longdogs
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I hope that is true Shrops. The thing is, everyone has to pull together for that to happen but sadly I cannot see it now.
23-09-2018, 03:41 PM
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Re: Are you proud to be British?
Originally Posted by tarantula
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No why should one be proud of being the nationality to which one belongs, I just don't get it?
Scotland has a tiny population, a bit over 5m compared to USA with over 300m or the world's 7,000m. So, less than 0.1% of the total. An almost insignificant proportion.
Yet, look at we have given the world.
James Watt, engineer, after the unit of power for your bulbs, electric kettle, power station etc.
Alexander Graham Bell - inventor of the telephone. The Bell Telephone Company still exists.
John Logie Baird - Inventor of television.
Sir Robert Watson-Watt - considered to be the inventor of RADAR
Alexander Fleming - discovered penicillin
James Clerk Maxwell - physicist who unified electricity, magnetism, and light in a single theory. The importance of this cannot be overstated.
James Barrie - creator of Peter Pan.
John Napier - inventor of logarithms.
I could go on.....
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