The Fundamental Interest of the English People

Here is a picture of pure English culture, which many English people would mock or poke fun at, because Morris Dancing has long been the target of humourists and comedians. Yet these ancient English dances are more English than "Land Of Hope And Glory" or "Rule Brittania", and their origins are part of English history.

CULTURE never stands still, it evolves, and culture is always changing, sometimes very slowly, sometimes quickly, and our culture does take on board aspects or bits from other cultures, and in such cases they then become part of our culture.

Fish and Chips has its origins overseas, the fried fish from Jewish culture, the humble potato is South American, but the whole world sees Fish & Chips as British, or English.

Christianity - an imported religion from the Middle East, a kind of off-shoot from Judaism, with various Pagan beliefs been the dominant belief previous to Christianity.

Wave after wave of immigrants have always come to these shores, there are no British people without European or foreign DNA, not even in Wales.

WHAT I DO UNDERSTAND is that many people do not like the idea of rapid change which can come from large scale immigration, or mass immigration from people with very different cultures, particularly if such people all settle in specific areas, thereby suddenly swamping an area.

However, generally speaking, I cannot now imagine life without all the benefits that immigrants have brought to our culture and added to it. Whether it be the Italians with their Coffee Bars, Spaghetti and family ice cream businesses, or music influences from the Caibbean, or the curry houses which adorn our high streets.

I move the motion that: English Culture is  Tea, Coffee, Christianity, Fish & Chips, Northern Soul Music, Ginger Beer and CHristmas Cake - None of which have English origins. 

Why don't you put us out of our misery and define 'Englishness' for us, Dan?

Look it up on the net. There are many informative sites that will tell people who we were and who we are and what we created as typical of our folk. This includes certain lawmaking and observance, certain social mores and various classes of society with unifying aspects within the social fabric of Anglo-Saxon culture and heritage. Even our politics is democratic (All Thing heritage) and centred on justice for all.

If you don't like us you are free to identify with anyone else you like. That is one of our typical aspects. We are tolerant of others. We are not tolerant of people telling us we do not exist or that if we do, we should alter ourselves to fit in with an establishment view of humanity that is basically anti-English.

Like people who insist English people of immigrant heritage don't exist you mean?

That doesn’t refute the premise either . It’s a strawman .

I fancy utopia is not such an easy thing.
In fact anyone who says it is, is a far right instigator of trouble.

You speak about a 'good thing for social cohesion'; yet undermine that with your belief in the racist terminology of 'white privilege'.

I think you want "social cohesion" on your terms, which if I may say do not look very cohesive at all. 

What is the upside of telling each and every white person in the UK they are privileged?