DanaC |
04-23-2004 09:57 PM |
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"Oh yeah, sure alot of Brits feel the royal family is a "pimple"?.... that's why nobody went to Diana's funeral. Or to royal's weddings. Yeah.
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Umm.....Well first off whilst many thousands of people went to Diana's funeral I might point out the millions who didnt.....
And....well same goes for the royal weddings. Really please dont look at the screaming fans and flag wavers and think we're all ardent royalists. Do you think we all worship the Beatles as well?
Seriously....mass hysteria and people competing with eachother to be more moved and outraged than the next person is not the mainstream.
I actually dont know anybody in Britain who does want the monarchy ......we didnt ask for them.....I seem to recall we did that whole revolution and execution of the king thing ourselves at one point.
All this talk of how different French and British are....Yah . We're very different but we're also very similar. The English have been ruled by the French. Our culture is a homogenisation of German, Scandanavian, Gallic and British( original sense of British rather than modern) The Norman French ruled in Britain for nearly three centuries. Even an Anglo saxon enthusiast such as me can see that has partially formed who we are.
We're also very different....I would like to think the biggest thing that seperates us is our language. ....Though actually huge swathes of that came from French.....
Britain's culture is a hybrid culture refined into its own branch of Europeanness (:P) When the French and English poke fun at each other I always see it as sibling rivalry. Likewise the Germans. I think we all rather hope it remains as friendly .....this time of peace between us was hard won
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