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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Wraith: [QB] I'm not talking about the extreme 'everyone should have a flag, a flag badge, a flag sticker and go around chanting UK,UK,UK' view and I don't really think that's necessarily what's being advocated. But rather a more general pride in being British and in allowing people to identify themselves as such without fear of being accused of intolerance. Promotion of common values, whatever they may be, provides a core of societal cohesion, which is necessary. And moderate degrees of national pride and the symbolism that entails is a useful and successful method of achieving that. It even works accross racial/religious boundaries; look at Queen Vicoria's Jubilee in 1897. That even got the New York Times proclaiming that the US was just part of 'Greater Britain'! [QUOTE] Are there such "conservative" voices in Britan? I imagine there probably is a wave of such opinions after any terror-attack. [/QUOTE]Not so much. I mean you do get a few BNP nutcases but no one really pays all that much attention to them outside of northern places beginning with B. Certainly no mainstream politician would advocate nuclear attacks for instance. the worst you're likely to get is a sort of high imperial disdain for the natives. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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