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Originally Posted by bongodriver
I find this statement confusing, do you mean we export those views around the world as a National policy?......news to me
or are you just juumping back on the 'I've seen what British football supporters are like so that is what they all are like' bandwaggon?
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nah, Bongo I think you misinterpreted what he meant.
There's a huge void in modern Britain, it's an identity crisis that is ever so strong now with multi-ethnicity and a lack of a general direction to follow.
My view as a non-English is that the heritage of the Empire mentality is ever so strong in "conservative British" because unfortunately they have nothing better to cling on to, it's sign of a culture that has no modern achievements and can't let go of the past, but while the British revel in the glories of WW2, the Germans moved on and are selling the UK millions of cars, engineering solutions, high speed trains.. Germany might have failed a military invasion in 1940, but its economic invasion is stronger than ever.
I love this country,so please take this as the perspective of a foreigner living here and observing, trying to give a constructive criticism to solve the generational values loophole that this glorious country seems to be in at the moment. If I didn't care about or like this place I wouldn't even bother, I would just milk it and do my thing.
There's nothing wrong with the celebration of the past, but not everything that was achieved for a good cause or done in good faith was good.
It's like the whole Falklands thing, I mean, really? It's 2012, let go of the islands, you made your point in 1982. Most people don't even know that the Malvinas were given to Argentina from Spain in 1811, but in typical British Empire fashion, the soldiers got there, planted a flag and said "well it's ours now". The all British self-importance in foreign policies and history is at times anachronistic and ludicrous, and it's what does more damage to the British image abroad than anything else.
In a nutshell: Constant, transversal WW2 banter? Out of place. You're a WW2 general with a controversial career? Your celebration is out of place (besides, I firmly believe that all this celebration was not the original intent of the men involved, they were only doing their job, good or bad).