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What is Culture?
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I know!
Yes, Middle English was closer to German than the language we speak now but the folk who spoke it regarded themselves as English, distinct from the Norman (Plantagenet) rulers.
Like football you mean?
Has any of this discussion so far helped you? I wasn't totally clear what you wanted to know.
no but..
That list seems to be more Yorkshire than England
Is it all that bad. The erosion of culture if anything is from American influences.
Not really. Englishness appears to be devoid imho of any culture. Tea and scones apart, Englishness says lager lout and I’m failing to identify its value to me. Did I say my heritage is Welsh? Now that must get a few English heckles up.
Has any of this discussion so far helped you? I wasn't totally clear what you wanted to know.
Argh!!!!
Just kidding.
What makes a culture, though. When you look at other nationalities, what do you see, which makes you believe they have more culture.
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A lot of Culture seems to be around variously dubious practices which make, or made, people feel comfortable.
An extreme example perhaps, but a close relative will be dying soon.. I expect there would be ONE other person at the funeral apart from my wife. What's the point?. If you say "show respect" then I say, "to whom, what for, why?". Nobody would even know. I'd rather not have any funeral for anyone unless it's a final family & friends meet-up where people actually want to see each other. A lot of that's about a ritual guilt for not wanting or bothering to see any of them for many years.
I'm sufficiently familiar with someother languages to know that related words like heritage, tradition, morality and whatnot have different boundaries. Most people don't even think about which is which.
German has a word "bIldung" which is a sort of mix. French has a word I can't even find, you see it in their museums but you can't directly translate it into English.
If you don't thnk Engllish has a culture, compare with some remote indigenous group. The Maasai, say, before the white man arrived.
An extreme example perhaps, but a close relative will be dying soon.. I expect there would be ONE other person at the funeral apart from my wife. What's the point?. If you say "show respect" then I say, "to whom, what for, why?". Nobody would even know. I'd rather not have any funeral for anyone unless it's a final family & friends meet-up where people actually want to see each other. A lot of that's about a ritual guilt for not wanting or bothering to see any of them for many years.
I'm sufficiently familiar with someother languages to know that related words like heritage, tradition, morality and whatnot have different boundaries. Most people don't even think about which is which.
German has a word "bIldung" which is a sort of mix. French has a word I can't even find, you see it in their museums but you can't directly translate it into English.
If you don't thnk Engllish has a culture, compare with some remote indigenous group. The Maasai, say, before the white man arrived.
that’s chav culture, not everybody is like that. They are big minority but they seem to have the biggest voice.
There is plenty of culture that still exists
Oh, I don't know....we export our finest cultured leg tattooed 'ambassadors' to Benidorm regularly, along with their penchant for lager and dust.
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Culture ?? The good old Dunkirk spirit
My mate had booked a holiday to Eygpt just before that Luxor terrorist attack he went not long after the attack
Plane was half empty apart from the Brits
All the Germans etc got squeaky b Ums and cancelled
He got interviewed by Eygptian TV at the air port
He made a rousing speech ( he had had a few in the plane ) we brits are made of sterner stuff not easily intimidated etc etc ( hic) with his knotted hanky on his head and Union Jack shorts
As he staggered onto the coach to the hotel the coach was escorted to the hotel by military armoured cars mounted with machine guns
Dunkirk spirit that and Marmite
My mate had booked a holiday to Eygpt just before that Luxor terrorist attack he went not long after the attack
Plane was half empty apart from the Brits
All the Germans etc got squeaky b Ums and cancelled
He got interviewed by Eygptian TV at the air port
He made a rousing speech ( he had had a few in the plane ) we brits are made of sterner stuff not easily intimidated etc etc ( hic) with his knotted hanky on his head and Union Jack shortsAs he staggered onto the coach to the hotel the coach was escorted to the hotel by military armoured cars mounted with machine guns
Dunkirk spirit that and Marmite
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I have tattoo's on my legs?
