"British culture": destroyed by immigrants?

Perhaps you can explain it to me, this time without the errors and crap from last time?

God Save The Queen is not really a national anthem.

Royalists all over the world, in the Dominions, use it.

The absence of a national holiday is simply an indicator of the underlying things.

It's not something that manifests itself in all people, all of the time, I doubt that anyone here, no matter how patriotic, or nationalist, walks down the street with strong compulsions to sing god save the queen, and wave a union jack 24/7. That's not how it is.
However, how did you feel on July 7th for example?
Were you indifferent to what happened, apathetic to it all, or were glued to updates, feeling sick inside your stomache, or angry and wanting revenge, or filled with a sense of despair?

When the national team scores a crucial goal in a match do you feel a sense of elation inside of you, or could you not be bothered?
When you see a paper, do you read the British news on the front page, the British news on the back page, or flick to page 9 and read about the rest of the world first?

We live in a time of apathy, where national pride and patriotism are supressed, and portrayed as synonymous with racism.
Where people feel a sense of dirty shame if they are to openly supportive of their nation, it's considered vulgar, and crass, but you still find yourself gravitating towards your own people, you still listen to English based music (look at our charts), cheer when the nations sportsmen and women win, or go to the pub on English hours.
You put your knife and fork on the plate, when the meal is over, not on the table cloth like other nations do, you find the things you evolved to love more aesthetically, than the things other cultures admire, the arts, landscapes, even the shape of a woman.
This is all part and parcel of what it is.
It doesn't require that you shave your head, and goose step through the streets with a big union jack, screaming "pakis go home", that's just an extreme cartoon variation of patriotism.
I'm sure in your heart you are every bit the Brit, and you have no choice in it, because British culture is part of you, and you are part of it, and don't worry about the bnp, they wouldn't win an election in a one horse race.
They don't represent Britain, or British culture.

I'm sure you feel just as British as many. You just don't feel a need to make a show of it.
Lot's of people are the same, in fact some even say that it's a sign of insecurity in your nation to over do the flags etc.
I'm as patriotic as they come, I love my nation and I want to protect and preserve it, but I haven't rushed out to get a union jack avatar yet.
It doesn't make me feel any less of a patriot, because I am secure in my beliefs.

*points finger*
You've sold out on Britain, just to accomodate immigrant scroungers!!
J/K
I don't think your views are as strange as you feel, just that current society makes us feel strange about discussing such subjects, and all apologetic.

Well on July 7th I was actually in France, but I was glued to the news reports of course, and I definately felt despair more than anything.

I have to say that I really don't follow football at all in any shape or form, but it's nice when Andy Murray wins for example, although I wouldn't say it makes me feel elated by any means.

Well I know I'm definately British as a sort of fact that I know, like saying that I know I have green eyes for example, I just don't sometimes feel it especially strongly, and thats nothing to do with any feelings of shame, I just don't feel it. And almost every teenager on the continent listens to English music btw! (since it is the only decent music scene)

Hmm... I'm really not that patriotic.

Hah!

I don't feel strange discusing it, but I know exactly where you're coming from with the whole apologetic angle. I don't feel it really applies to me, but on the whole it is without doubt a British phenomenon.

I don't know about that, I've been to some European clubs and they deffinately throw some of their stuff into the mix, the same on their radio shows, but you kind of make my point when you say "since it is the only decent music scene".
That's your shared evolution talking, that's your culture talking.
Do you think every kid in Greece, or Hungary, is saying the same thing?

As i have said before, most of Britain is white.

Plenty of people do "Britishy culturally type things"- whatever the hell that may be

and eastmidlands, guy, your description sounded like the same silly things that devout relgious people spout about God and faith etc

i don't accept that wooshy airy fairy feeling you have is more important than immigrants needing to get out of their countries, or merely wanting a better life.

As long as you yourselves don't lose your own identity, then there is no problem. An influx of immigrants shouldn't change how you feel inside about yourself.

I always find it amusing to be called racist, as i'm a mixed race boy, who in fact was brought up by my white mother, who has had far more influence over my life than anyooine else.

And i only have 1 black friend because there weren't really any other black people at my school.

Stop resorting to accusing people of racism, particularly when that is precisel what you moan at black people for doing, no doubt.

No. Culture isn't. But that wooshy airy fairy feeling you feel is inside isnt it? You feel British, don't you/ Why? Because you look around and see Big Ben? Wehn looking at a PGTips box? Or because you just feel it? Now tel me, how do immigrants have such power that they can stop you feeling British? If they do that, then i say again, that is not their fault, but your own.