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Ei tätä pelkästään Suomessa tapahdu. Ethnic minorities can get behind St George's Day – so why won't liberals?
“It feels pretty patronising to me now if well-meaning liberals worry about whether recognising England will leave out minorities, Sunder Katwala"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...n-get-behind-st-georges-day--so-why-wont-lib/
"We’ll see again this weekend that St George’s Day is being marked more prominently around the country. That reflects how English identity has been rising significantly for the last fifteen years – a natural reaction to the growing realisation that the United Kingdom was a multi-national enterprise. Islington resident Jeremy Corbyn often gives the impression that he’d happily join John Lennon in singing “imagine there’s no country, it isn’t hard to do” – but that isn’t how most of us feel or think. My feeling is that anxiety about an Englishness we can all share comes more often from a strand of elite cosmopolitan opinion on the liberal-Left than from the ethnic minorities whose sensitivities they think they are protecting."
“It feels pretty patronising to me now if well-meaning liberals worry about whether recognising England will leave out minorities, Sunder Katwala"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...n-get-behind-st-georges-day--so-why-wont-lib/
"We’ll see again this weekend that St George’s Day is being marked more prominently around the country. That reflects how English identity has been rising significantly for the last fifteen years – a natural reaction to the growing realisation that the United Kingdom was a multi-national enterprise. Islington resident Jeremy Corbyn often gives the impression that he’d happily join John Lennon in singing “imagine there’s no country, it isn’t hard to do” – but that isn’t how most of us feel or think. My feeling is that anxiety about an Englishness we can all share comes more often from a strand of elite cosmopolitan opinion on the liberal-Left than from the ethnic minorities whose sensitivities they think they are protecting."