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How Can St George's Day Be Celebrated?
Every year around this time, friends I've know for years suddenly discover they have (questionable) Irish roots and jump on the joyous St Patricks Day celebrations.
I've always noticed how every Irish bar I've been into has been warm, friendly and inviting.
I've always thought that it's a shame there isn't the same publicity given to St George's Day (April 23rd), and suspect that some of the conclusions drawn in this report have a ring of truth about it:
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Could it be that after years being draped around the shoulders of the EDL and BNP, that the flag of St George has been a little 'tainted'?
I've always noticed how every Irish bar I've been into has been warm, friendly and inviting.
I've always thought that it's a shame there isn't the same publicity given to St George's Day (April 23rd), and suspect that some of the conclusions drawn in this report have a ring of truth about it:
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Could it be that after years being draped around the shoulders of the EDL and BNP, that the flag of St George has been a little 'tainted'?
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The English have been taught that to show patriotism is doing something wrong and anyone who does is a 'little Englander', far right-winger, or a member of the BNP or EDL, etc. why even the name of our country is slowly being erased, we are now to be referred to as 'Brits' even though there isn't a country called Britain.
So is it any wonder we are discouraged from flying the flag of St George.
I was once on holiday in Cuba and I asked our Cuban courier if the wearing of my American baseball cap would cause offence, (seeing their hatred for the Americans), to which he replied "no of course not, but why did you find the need to wear an American one, why don't you wear an English one" when I explained that this type of thing was frowned upon in England, as the flying of our flag was, he just could not believe it.
So is it any wonder we are discouraged from flying the flag of St George.
I was once on holiday in Cuba and I asked our Cuban courier if the wearing of my American baseball cap would cause offence, (seeing their hatred for the Americans), to which he replied "no of course not, but why did you find the need to wear an American one, why don't you wear an English one" when I explained that this type of thing was frowned upon in England, as the flying of our flag was, he just could not believe it.
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I think part of the problem is that we now have a whole generation, for whom the site of the flag of St George sends the wrong signals.
Because it's been appropriated by the BNP and EDL, it now almost looks like a political symbol...in the same way that if I saw a red flag in the 70s or 80s, I would subconsciously associate it with the far left.
I think part of the problem is that we now have a whole generation, for whom the site of the flag of St George sends the wrong signals.
Because it's been appropriated by the BNP and EDL, it now almost looks like a political symbol...in the same way that if I saw a red flag in the 70s or 80s, I would subconsciously associate it with the far left.
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