What is English Nationalism?

SteakAndCake

True, but a pretty low bar comparing any Western Democracy to those backwards hellholes

Sonic67

You wanted comparisons of culture, you've had multiple posts. In Germany it's part of their culture that shops shut at Lunchtime Saturday, aren't open Sunday and on a Sunday the family goes out on a walk through local woods and parks. None of that is really English culture.

They don't really have many Indian restaurants but they do have Chinese restaurants. They eat more pork, if you go to a German toilet it probably looks like this.

                                                                               

The large area is because Germans eat a lot of pork. If you haven't cooked pork correctly you can get worms. This is your chance to check for worms before flushing.

They have more of a Turkish influence due to Turkish migration. Laws are different in that you are responsible for the pavement in front of your house so after a snowfall you will find paths and pavements being cleared.

Are you getting an idea yet? An American said he discovered English culture when he stepped on an Englishman's shoe and the Englishman said sorry.

Sonic67

Note. Calling the place "Britain" was from the Victorians who resurrected the Roman term. We could go back to Albion.

IronGiant

I can guarantee you that no-one has ever read a book written by Sherlock Holmes

Sonic67

Of course not. Dr Watson wrote them.

Sonic67

Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh but lived and died in England. Sherlock was based on a surgeon who was able to deduce things just by looking at them and that lead to Sherlock doing the same.

There's a museum in Edinburgh dedicated to it.

From what I can remember, the surgeon had a patient come in and he immediately knew he was military based on his tan and what parts were covered and how recent it was. From that Doyle used the idea of looking at someone and deducing. Actually that's wrong. Sherlock also uses mainly inductive reasoning, not deductive reasoning.

Liquid101

Agreed - but cultural identity and nationalism are different things. I’ve travelled a fair bit, and one thing is obvious - cultural identity blurs from one country to another, you don’t get distinct differences at borders. Nationalism tries to suggest that cultural identity starts and finishes in the same places as the imaginary lines on a map. Travel overland through Europe, and it’s really obvious.

Funnily enough, I’m currently sitting in a train travelling from Wales, through England to Scotland.  I’ll let you know if I spot any jolting changes as I cross the borders.

Sonic67

Drive into Wales and you will see ARAF painted on the roads. That's usually my first indication.

SteakAndCake

Barriers are blurred for sure now.

I was in Cambodia in December.  We went to a local village about 20 miles outside Siem Reap.  Looked super poor.  Wood huts on stilts in a dried up lake bed filled with rubbish.  Guide giving it large about the poverty and deprivation, full sob story.  Then out of the corner of my eye a little Cambodian boy comes running naked out one of the "houses" holding a Samsung Galaxy blaring some Youtube video.   

Culture shock on the culture shock lmao

justincase

Must have forgot to put his Man Utd shirt on