After seeing a little of the immigration thread got me thinking about cultural identity.
My family for the past 3 generations have been from the West Midland, well Nottinghamshire, and I don't know either as a Britain or an English woman or as a midlander what my cultural identity actually is, is it pie and chips :facepalm: I don't feel particularly proud of where I come from, or feel better than anyone else from any other country/county, I feel lucky that I am not in desperate poverty and that I wasn't brought up in an inner city slum, I once, when we were looking for larger accommodation, went past a house up for rent that the area looked so scary we were afraid to stop the car in case we had no tyres on return :roll: I feel lucky that I can get medical help free when I require it, but this has nothing to do with cultural identity.
I was just wondering do we really have a true cultural identity or are we really a product of so many invasions throughout British history that we don't really have one to speak of.
What makes you British or Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh or even from any given county in any of the aforementioned countries? and what is it that we are trying to protect?
Alison
My family for the past 3 generations have been from the West Midland, well Nottinghamshire, and I don't know either as a Britain or an English woman or as a midlander what my cultural identity actually is, is it pie and chips :facepalm: I don't feel particularly proud of where I come from, or feel better than anyone else from any other country/county, I feel lucky that I am not in desperate poverty and that I wasn't brought up in an inner city slum, I once, when we were looking for larger accommodation, went past a house up for rent that the area looked so scary we were afraid to stop the car in case we had no tyres on return :roll: I feel lucky that I can get medical help free when I require it, but this has nothing to do with cultural identity.
I was just wondering do we really have a true cultural identity or are we really a product of so many invasions throughout British history that we don't really have one to speak of.
What makes you British or Irish, English, Scottish, Welsh or even from any given county in any of the aforementioned countries? and what is it that we are trying to protect?
Alison
