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Rule, Britannia! (Not)
Rule, Britannia! makes people uncomfortable
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I feel he needs to develop more tolerance and review his interpretation on the song. It is traditional at the Proms and supports our nation by dinging it's praises. If he finds it offensive maybe he is in the wrong job, and possibly the wrong country.
This sort of nonsense should not be given the publicity on a news site, nor, for that matter, a public forum. It just encourages these digs at our country.
"Kanneh-Mason was a soloist at the Last Night of the Proms last year. But he said he did not stay to hear Rule, Britannia! being sung at the end of the night......
Kanneh-Mason was 17 when he won the BBC Young Musician Award in 2016 and, two years later, he shot to fame when he played the cello at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's wedding.
Growing up in Nottingham, he was part of a musical family and started having cello lessons when he was just six years old."
From the BBC website.
He doesn't seem to be intolerant, or trying to outlaw anything. But Frank Doberman and others are now telling him to leave the country.
White slavery, where Europeans were being kidnapped by the Barbary Pirates, from coastal towns all around Europe happened just before Rule Britannia was written. . It wasn't fantasy. Italy was the most affected country. Then there was Iceland ,Spain, Ireland and the UK.amongst other countries. Sailors were captured and taken back to Morocco. In Cornwall, churches were broken into whilst people were worshipping and some of them were also kidnapped. Ships and their crews. Rule Britannia was probably written in defiance and to show that we would never let such atrocities happen again.