[AdvanceAndVanquish]

(Original post by GenieM)
The Spanish & Portuguese fought for Britain as well at one stage in history. Does that mean they're all English now too? I don't get what you're saying.

What are you referring to?

[myuranking]

**** that ****. I have four 2 metre wide flags outside my house. And im not white, I have bunting up outside. Flags in my shops, **** what anyone else says

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[Mystro]

that is messed up, as a black British man i believe that you swear allegiance to the country you decide to live in, if you migrate to England/UK you do your best to defend it because obviously you thought it was a better place to live, all these immigrants who move here and don't like it, refuse to learn the language, and reap all the benefits make me sick.

you came to the gora's country but you don't like them? Phuck you and gtfo out of here.

Britain has done well with immigrants but its time to shut its borders 100% only people allowed in should be educated/rich.. it is a shame because some war refugees would be happy to accept British ways but the other fools spoil it.

i understand some white people still don't like other ethnicities yet, but i believe it would get better in the future, if there was a big war ill sign up to the uk, unless it was a epic world war then the black and Asians would team up haha.

fly the flag with pride man.

[Jake_the_beast]

What kind of situation are we in when we can't decide what we are. I was Born in England from Welsh stock. People are who they are and they should be proud of it. Never forget who you are, doesn't mean to say you can't be anything else. As far as I'm concerned as long as you live and work here you are English if you choose to be associated that way. I really want to move to America. If I do I will call myself an American though there will always be part of me that is British

As for the Flag, I reckon it should it displayed more often. In the US it is found on every street corner. Over there it's considered patriotic, over here we are too afraid of our own shadow. If you don't like it, get the hell out and move to somewhere else in the EU. How many people reckon the Germans have trouble with their tri colour flag cause of their countries history? I'm sorry but this is the country you live in, this is it's flag. Deal with it. Imagen in 50 years all flags are just white flags with UK or GER written on them.

With other flags we are (supposedly) a free country, fly whatever makes you happy. What happened to freedom of speech?

I am a socially liberal guy and as patriotic as the next man but someone tells me what to do with my flag, I'll tell them what to do with the pole.

[Stilo]

(Original post by BarbaraStreisand)
Nationality is a creation in itself, the man has no right to determine who is and isn't British. If you see your self as British and live in this country then that is what you are but there's nothing wrong with being proud of your Pakistani roots either.

People are so narrow minded spreading hate when there is no need for it, identity takes many different forms and in the twenty-first century it really is petty creating these 'differences'. Do we not all have to live here together?

Are you really Barbara Streisand? Will you send me an autographed picture?

[MonkeyMan2009]

(Original post by noorkhanuk85)
During the diamond jubilee celebrations, my dad decided to hang up the union flag on the front of the house (between the living room and bedroom window). I posted a pic of it on facebook and some of comments I got from my friends were sad.

Some comments were like "are you a gora (white person)?" and "the st.georges cross on the flag represents 'the blood of muslims from the crusades' etc.

Also on my street a white man told me that I had no right to fly that flag because i wasn't a 'native Brit.' He told me he didn't mean to offend me by saying that but it was just something he had to say.

As a proud British Pakistani, uk born n bred, i sometimes wonder whether I still have an identity crisis.

What are your thoughts on this?

tell them to **** off and live somewhere else if they don't like it. I've said this to people in the past and it really pissed them off that they couldn't do anything about it. People need to mind their own and get on with their lives.

[littleone271]

You live here and you were even born here so you have more than every right to be patriotic! It's your country too and don't let anybody tell you otherwise. People get annoyed when people from other cultures fail to integrate and adapt to our society and now they're moaning at people who are proud of their country where they live and have been brought up. It's ludicrous.

Would your neighbour have said the same if you were displaying the flag to support the UK in the olympics? Think about people like Amir Khan, Kelly Holmes and Fatima Whitbread. Nobody objects when people with foreign parents represent the UK in the olympics and they've won loads of medals for us. It's not even as if people from mixed race backgrounds can be accused of a reputation of failing to contribute to these things so I don't see how people can be so ignorant without seeing that hypocrisy.

I think it's nice for people to support the UK and join in with our patriotic celebrations. I don't think it should even matter to us if they're not even from here at all and they're just holidaying. It's all positive stuff so why should we care?

[Ano1]

(Original post by TheHansa)
That's horrible getting hate from both sides.

You should tell the white man how many asians died fighting for Britian after travelling across half the world.

just the white man?

what about the facebook friends, the ones she can still reply to.

but oh, lets just focus on evil whitey.

good on you OP! put the flag outside your house if you want : )

[Snagprophet]

I have an English flag on my window. Come at me, anti-English-people-who-also-choose-to-reside-in-England!

I hope to continue to do this if I move to Australia or Canada, albeit fly that flag as well.

[Alexander94]

Anyone should be able to fly any flag they want out their window... unless it has some offensive something on it... Even if you were 1st generation it just shows you are proud of your country... Entire streets with the english flag hanging down in rough parts of town scare me though. I feel like I walked into an EDL/BNP meeting

**** the haters, flags arent for me but if you want to, flaunt it!

(And that is what it is, YOUR country, you live here!!)

[TheHansa]

(Original post by Ano1)
just the white man?

what about the facebook friends, the ones she can still reply to.

but oh, lets just focus on evil whitey.

good on you OP! put the flag outside your house if you want : )

'My family risked death to protect this country I have the right to fly this flag' will work better on a person who is white british than people who might not see themselves as british of any sort.

[Ray Bradbury]

My white Christian father fought alongside Muslims in ww2. They stood shoulder to shoulder to fight a common enemy. A predominantly Christian and Shinto enemy.
But here is the question. What about now when the enemy we are fighting are predominantly Muslim. Where do loyalties lay for most uk muslims when it is people of their faith that we are fighting? The enemy may not come from their country of origin but they have faith in common.
In America people seem to make a better effort at integrating and the Stars and Stripes can be seen everywhere. I may be wrong, but the impression I get is that you will go a long way to see a British Muslim flying the Union jack and certainly if they are living in a Muslim area.