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Politesub53 -> RE: The British ? (6/26/2010 2:33:10 AM)
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ORIGINAL: LadyEllen
You should be using the Cornish flag; Devon is all part of "south Wales" down there, abutting Wessex.........
I dont think the English are unpatriotic - I dont think they know how to (or dont want to) be overtly and daftly patriotic is all, but when England were playing Slovenia the other day the place came to a near standstill, here anyway.
I think we're more locally "patriotic"; that is we identify more with our locale than some national superimposition and after our locale comes our county then region before England as a whole. I'd also suspect this is something that originates a long time ago and has been added to over centuries by the twists and turns of history.
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I agree about the football, my town came to a standstill and the majority of people had an England shirt on.
Nice last point as well, people forget we are tribal and my brother nailed it yesterday. I come from Britain, to be more exact, England. In fact I am a southerner, not just any southerner but a Londoner. Dont call me a cockney though, as I am from South of the Thames. A Lambeth boy bred in Battersea and Brixton, both being "Home". You can narrow it further down to the street and even the block. You get the idea though.
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