Are you proud to be English/British?

You're an utter tit and indictive of everything that is wrong with modern Britain. I actually dealt with a great deal of what you said. Nice attempted trolling btw.

I know you shouldn't be proud of where you happened to be born, but since there's no changing it you may as well embrace the fact and show some national pride. I don't particularly like the Royals but it's nice to see the show of national pride for royal birthdays, weddings and the likes.

So are you proud to be British?

Five thumbs down for this post. NATIONAL PRIDE ISN'T RACIST you ****ing idiots.

I'm proud to be British, damn straight. **** the ins and outs of definitions, I'm 100% English and British, I fly my St George from my window with pride etc

But it's not because the UK is such a great country (which it is) it's just because I happen to be born here and want an identity/roots, and be proud of them. As opposed to some people who don't. (even those born here, where's the sense in that?)

You can be proud of your nation and still respect others. Ie I'm very proud of being British and British history and historical figures. Does it mean I dislike the French and belittle their people? no. I love taking the piss out of the French as much as the next man but I still recognise great French art, history, their wonderful language etc.

Nationalism is something different. You see it in Nazi Germany with the idea that Germans were Aryan supermen, you see it in the Balkans with the Serbs and Croats believing the Bosniak Muslims were below them and you see i within some far right elements of Israel who hate the Palestinians.

Entirely different things. One seminar of a political thought class on the subject could tell you that.

Certainly. Why shouldn't you be proud of where you were born? It depends on what kind of pride I guess...

Such as?

I am not proud to be living after the golden age of the British Empire.

I am not proud that we are a country desperatley holding on to the global perception of being a world power. It's so contrived when it used to be effortless.

I'm very dissapointed and ashamed at the pathetic way our Empire was thrown away.

I am also not proud because I'm not part of the gentry or the upper classes but lower-middle at best. It's not tha part of British society I feel like i fit in within nor feel proud to be in.

By British does that include Asians that were born here like me? Or is it just the indigenous population?

I'm proud of what Britain used to be. A great empire which ruled a quarter of the earth's surface. Now it is a shameful ailing power at the mercy of Islamisation, third-world invasion, and its former colony, the USA. Who could be proud of that?

Proud is a rather stupid thing to be in such a context. First and foremost it requires somebody who isn't British to compare yourself against and gloat inwardly over. Given that you didn't do anything to achieve this status bar winning the ovarian lottery and sliding out of your mother onto the right part of the Earth's surface; you will excuse me if I snigger pretentiously when you denounce those who are not proud of such a simplistic 'victory'.