Because i don’t want to be associated with the jingoistic mouth breathing flag wankers?
Also it feels somewhat cringy to celebrate an arbitrary day about a man who was probably a Roman citizen of Turkish/Syrian extraction who died in Palestine and never even set foot in England and never killed a dragon.
Who really gives a crap? Even if it was made a bank holiday I would celebrate it as much as I do the spring/summer bank holidays, i.e. a day off work for which I don’t give a flying crap about the underlying reason for the day off.
To me St George’s day is like any other arbitrary saints day or archaic religious feast day. St George has about as much relevance to my life as Cedd or Cuthbert.
Don’t agree with the Spectator on this one. Not aware anyone is embarrassed. It’s just not a big deal.
There is a tiny minority of yobs who associate the flag with their bad behaviour but they are easily ignored.
Having lived in an EU country where flying the national flag on certain days is the law, and people get fines for not doing so, actually I think we would benefit from a more public national day. Fetes, bbqs, family fun at a local festival, shows, music, nostalgia for a past that never really existed, good will to fellow man. What’s not to like?
Because nationalists are loud and it’s humiliating when international people see us. Also the government most those weapons have voted in have permanently dismantled our standing in the world all motivated out of hatred of others not out of wanting to actually improve things.
The actual reason St. George’s day isn’t a big deal, nor is English identity, is because English people feel comfortable and at ease just identifying as British. These sub-divisions are for groups who feel a sense of oppression and injustice, as well as feeling outnumbered, we feel none of these things. I don’t think it’s a complicated issue at all.
I’ve just finished a run organised at the St George Pub where we had some people wearing George crosses and and someone dressed as a dragon. One of the cross wearers was from Thailand.
There’s nothing racist or embarrassing about St George, his saints day, or his red and white cross.
The fact he wasn’t English seems irrelevant. He wasn’t Georgian either. Come to that St Andrew not only pre-dated Scotland by hundreds of years, he never got anywhere near it.
We’re not at all! The streets of the town I live in are lined with the English flag put up by the chamber of commerce on most of the buildings. There will have been plenty of St George’s day parades up and down the country yesterday and come Sunday there will be St George’s day Sunday parades up and down the country. Most scout/guide, youth group, cadet group and many schools will have celebrated or will do so this week.
We are embarrassed about how a tiny minority of overweight, under educated yobs (for the want of a better word) get drunk and wave the flag and shout a lot and think that their display of faux patriotism is real patriotism. Patriotism is about wanting everyone to work together to make your country better for everyone.
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Because i don’t want to be associated with the jingoistic mouth breathing flag wankers?
Also it feels somewhat cringy to celebrate an arbitrary day about a man who was probably a Roman citizen of Turkish/Syrian extraction who died in Palestine and never even set foot in England and never killed a dragon.
Who really gives a crap? Even if it was made a bank holiday I would celebrate it as much as I do the spring/summer bank holidays, i.e. a day off work for which I don’t give a flying crap about the underlying reason for the day off.
To me St George’s day is like any other arbitrary saints day or archaic religious feast day. St George has about as much relevance to my life as Cedd or Cuthbert.
Don’t agree with the Spectator on this one. Not aware anyone is embarrassed. It’s just not a big deal.
There is a tiny minority of yobs who associate the flag with their bad behaviour but they are easily ignored.
Having lived in an EU country where flying the national flag on certain days is the law, and people get fines for not doing so, actually I think we would benefit from a more public national day. Fetes, bbqs, family fun at a local festival, shows, music, nostalgia for a past that never really existed, good will to fellow man. What’s not to like?
Because nationalists are loud and it’s humiliating when international people see us. Also the government most those weapons have voted in have permanently dismantled our standing in the world all motivated out of hatred of others not out of wanting to actually improve things.
The actual reason St. George’s day isn’t a big deal, nor is English identity, is because English people feel comfortable and at ease just identifying as British. These sub-divisions are for groups who feel a sense of oppression and injustice, as well as feeling outnumbered, we feel none of these things. I don’t think it’s a complicated issue at all.
I’ve just finished a run organised at the St George Pub where we had some people wearing George crosses and and someone dressed as a dragon. One of the cross wearers was from Thailand.
There’s nothing racist or embarrassing about St George, his saints day, or his red and white cross.
The fact he wasn’t English seems irrelevant. He wasn’t Georgian either. Come to that St Andrew not only pre-dated Scotland by hundreds of years, he never got anywhere near it.
We’re not at all! The streets of the town I live in are lined with the English flag put up by the chamber of commerce on most of the buildings. There will have been plenty of St George’s day parades up and down the country yesterday and come Sunday there will be St George’s day Sunday parades up and down the country. Most scout/guide, youth group, cadet group and many schools will have celebrated or will do so this week.
We are embarrassed about how a tiny minority of overweight, under educated yobs (for the want of a better word) get drunk and wave the flag and shout a lot and think that their display of faux patriotism is real patriotism. Patriotism is about wanting everyone to work together to make your country better for everyone.