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LadyEllen -> RE: Nick Griffin - torn to shreds on QT? (10/23/2009 7:00:05 AM)
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Nevertheless, Griffin is appealing to something important with his insistence on English, British and so on - it is the lack of identity which the indiginous population feel in the age of multi-culturalism, where it seems that everyone else has an identity and this is protected and promoted by law, but the natives do not and thereby feel hard done by, (whether rightly or wrongly), even though were anyone to suggest an identity for them very few of them would agree with it due to the regional and local character of England and as a whole Britain.
From what I understand of the Anglo Saxon stock, I would be just about a perfect representation of an Anglo Saxon. I am as English as they come, despite the inevitable presence of a myriad other genetic influences no doubt within me. I would be legally English, if there were any such valid description in law. But I dont feel English - and this purely because even being English I have no real idea of what Englishness would be, not because of some terrible conspiracy to deny that to me but because even on the most cursory inspection I share little or nothing with those others, equally indigenous and equally English, in other parts of the country.
Yet it must be in our multi-cultural society that I have something which sets me apart from other ethnic groups and which I share with others from my ethnic group, otherwise what am I in that multi-cultural mix? Nothing. And therein lies part of the problem, with the remainder being made up by way of the only mechanism remaining to allow me an identity - the exclusion of others who are obviously from their appearance outside my group. Add to that sense of not belonging and defining oneself by reference purely to other identities a sense that those other identities are being promoted - and more than that that those of those identities are being supported because of that overall agenda, and the recipe is complete.
In short, we need to define what it means to be one of the indigenous population in the context of a multi-cultural society within the context of overall British identity shared between all populations. A difficult task no doubt, but one which is essential I feel in order to defuse at least this aspect of BNP sympathy.
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