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I once read a quote (Paxman) about the English 'looking backwards into the future' which I thought brilliant. The history we have is a real wonder to me on occasion, even a walk around where I live will find buildings dating back 300 years, I just love all that history and sense of knowing who you are.
Passion wise though, I don't think we English really do passion. Personally I find our national anthem a bit sappy and meaningless. I never really understood that until I went to Murrayfield and stood among 60 thousand Scots singing 'flower of Scotland; now [i]that's[i] passion.
I like being English, and I kind of like the fact that we get up a few noses just by being us as well. That said, I'm a big admirer of the way some other countries conduct themselves, like some sort of new and improved version of what we have here. I'm thinking of Australia and immigration policy (not just the refugee / boat people thing)
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