why in the uk is a word from a patriot of england considered as racist?

Answer 1

It's a hangover from the imperial past. To be proud to be English still smacks of the people who marched into India, Africa, and everywhere else they could and essentially subjucated the people who rightfully lived there. Not entirely fair, I know, but that's the perception - perhaps largely because we live in an age of labels and one-dimensional descriptions, and nobody today is exactly sure what England is, or what it means, because it measn so many different things to many different people. So anyone who says they're an English patriot these days is instantly judged as not meanign they're patriotic for England as it is today, but boxed into the corner of being nostalgic for that kind of imperial age - which, viewed against today's multi-cultural England, was inherently racist (taking over other people's countries is about as racist as you can get, really :o))

It may not be fair, it may not be clever, but because we live in a more complex nation than we know how to describe, that's the perception that people instantly have.

Answer 2

Same as in the USA. It is an easy way to pull someone off conversation. Once accused of being racist the conversation goes into self defense mode. The topic gets changed and any opinion you have is now rendered moot.

Answer 3

Why can't those of color be patriots too? Look, you supported the empire, empires tend not to last, things at least in countries of the former British Empire don't look too good so they go to the motherland....that's what happens. You can't have your cake and eat it to. Why can't you accept that not all those from other places are not true English, even though we know that the truth is that it's better to be Scottish anyway...but that's another story.

Answer 4

because people interperate things diffrently

Answer 5

yeah

i agree