R.ip. British Culture.

[Theland]

Whatever happened to British culture?
Is it completely dead or terminal?
Can it ever be revived, or do we need to adapt to the new foreign landscape?

[bednobs]

i have just come back from holiday in tenerife and was staying at an hotel that had spanish, french, german, british and russians staying in it (among others i presume) my husband told me he didnt really know how to greet people

[bednobs]

submitted before i finished.
in the lifts and bar etc but for me it was easy - fat fooball shirted men and bright red women with hideous tattoos squeezing into bikinis 4 sizes too small and fighting over the bottle of gin at the bar - deffo british culture right there

[NoMercy]

I meant the first paragraph, ZM.

[ummmm]

Togo - I don't mix with people who not of the same wavelength as me.

[NoMercy]

That's one extreme end of the scale, bednobs. Every society has its unmannerly representatives.

What about other traditions like all the pomp and pageantry that goes with, say, a royal jubilee? I'm sure a great many would love to make that a thing of the past.

[Zacs-Master]

NoM, I think you simply reinforced my point, that British Traditions are largely borrowed from other countries.

Fox Hunting! Now there’s a BRitish Tradition.

[NoMercy]

Not anymore it isn't, ZM.

[Khandro]

Zacs-Master; Your posts seem to demonstrate such a dislike of Britain and the British, that one might be tempted to say that they verge on racism.

[ummmm]

Isn't British a nationality ?

[naomi24]

//Beer bellies and football hooligans :-D//

That certainly isn’t an aspect of the culture I live in and it never has been. Perhaps being so willing to denigrate British culture by reducing it to such terms indicates a lack of pride in our own country and maybe, just maybe, that is part of the problem. Knocking Britain appears to have become perceived as somehow trendily smart.

In areas of high immigration it stands to reason that other cultures will become apparent but go to the country with its Summer Fetes and Harvest Suppers – there British culture, along with the community spirit that it engenders, is well and truly alive.

As for The Sleeping Beauty, whatever the origin of that or many of the other stories we’ve all been brought up with, Panto is very much part of British culture – and that’s what NoMercy is talking about.

ummmm, //I never get to meet these people who are so easily offended.//

There are plenty of them on here.

ZM, speaking of cultures adopted from elsewhere, fox hunting isn’t and never has been confined to this country.

Bednobs, holidaying in better hotels will cure your problem.

[ummmm]

Naomi....I was joking, we used to see it a lot on TV.

I'm Irish but very proud to live in England. My father brought us up to appreciate England and his words "if it wasn't for England you'd be effing hungry"

[naomi24]

ummmm, pleased to hear it.

[bednobs]

"That's one extreme end of the scale, bednobs."
so is your example. One woman who wanted sleeping beauty banned, didn't get it banned, and sleeping beauty still goes on (my daughter went to school dressed as aurora on tuesday) yet apparently is signals the end of british culture!

[-Talbot-]

Doesn't your spellchecker tell you to use caps for 'British' bednobs?

[jackthehat]

Is the sky falling in again, today?

[-Talbot-]

Or do we expect to
Never evolve?


I'm not sure the decline of Christianity and the rise of Islam is the way to go as far as evolving goes.
Personally, I would like to see the erosion of them both (and the rest)

[bednobs]

it does give me a wobbly line, but my hands are so rubbish at the moment i'm too busy putting out fires elsewhere so people can understand what im trying to say :)