Young people not so proud of being English

Cliff

YouGov poll finds that the younger generation are not so proud to be English, that this does vary wildly with location. For instance London is low with Lambeth and Hackney being particularly low.
Mind you, this might have something to do with ethnicity- particularly in those areas. If you are not British or grew up in a family that was not British you might have those sort of national feelings for you home country rather than your adopted one?
The young are generally more anti this or that and against what their parents stood for. Thats perfectly normal and has been the same since the dawn of time.

On the other hand you could be English but so p***ed off with seeing the country going to the dogs you cant really say you are too proud?
I remember, when posters flags were shown on this forum there was a bit of a commotion- which surprised me somewhat.

How proud is your area of being English?

Marv

Not surprising when the youth are constantly told not to love there country and the globalism is good.

weaviemx5

Are you sure it's not down to the fact that Social Media shows more "English/Britishness" as someone with a Crusading Knight as their profile picture and sharing #FreeTommy Memes at every opportunity?

Personally, it's those people that are doing the exact opposite of what they feel is 'patriotism' and are instead making the country look like uneducated sheep following the angry herd.

weaviemx5

Who is telling 'the youth' not to love their country?

nabby

These conclusions from the data were interesting to my eyes:


The survey does not reveal at which point England apparently passed its best, but the results suggest:
Despite their pride in being English, the majority of over 65s (60%) believe England was better in the pastTwo thirds of over 65s (67%) said England is better than most other countries in the worldSlightly more Remain voters (20%) than Leavers (15%) believe England's best years lie aheadYoung people are the most optimistic, with 28% of 18 to 24-year-olds believing England's best years are still in the future55% of people aged 50-64 and 60% of people aged 65 and over say England was better in the past
Added to which, and I accept I can't read the exact percentage of people who said this from the graphical representation of the data, about 16% (my guess) of people stated that being born in England does not make you English (circa 1 in 6 people).  If you correlate that with the responses of people in places like London, where many will be of an ethnic minority or mixed race background, it's no wonder people don't feel they can consider themselves English.  Compounding this (from the same graph), about 50% of people said that just because you consider yourself English, it does not make you English.

krish

Who knows, but Alex Jones (not off the One Show) is telling Marv that the globalists are telling the youth not to love 'there' country.

krish

If you mean this 'character', wasn't much of a surprise ...
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Sonic67

A few years ago for St George's day I changed my avatar for a St George image. It was a knight, who had St George's flag on his shield, and I forgot to change it afterwards. Someone else on here saw it and was convinced I must be EDL.

BBC News | UK | English nationalism 'threat to UK'

Jack Straw:

Home Secretary Jack Straw says the English had used their "propensity to violence to subjugate Ireland, Wales and Scotland" on the Radio 4 programme Brits. The broadcast is examining what it now means to be British.

Mr Straw will describe the English as "potentially very aggressive, very violent" and will "increasingly articulate their Englishness following devolution."

weaviemx5

Unfortunately, that assumption is a result of far-right groups using the flag as an aggressive symbol of their supposed 'patriotism' rather than the fault of anyone else.

Sonic67

Also a fault of those on the left associating the English flag with such groups.

Labour front-bencher Emily Thornberry sacked over 'prejudiced' flag tweet