Are you proud to be British?

Question

What with all the atrocities in our healthcare, our military living in squalor, too many people living on one sinking island, overpriced everything from kids toys to petrol?

Are we still a great nation?

Im personally sad to be a Brit these days

I used to be proud under our predecessors, but it seems Labour have pulled us into a third world equivalent.. and as for being American well that is just about the worst you could be!!

Well Curt the yank just summed up how nice Americans are didnt he...is that the only language you understand?

Answer 1

I am an American and I believe that the UK has a long and proud history that should fill every Brit with pride. Sure, you have your problems and as always you will solve them. There is nothing to be ashamed about.

Take pride in your nation and stop your complaining. Roll up your sleeves and get to work making the changes you need to make. The British have always been a resilient and strong group. You need to rekindle the flame of resolve your country displayed during WWII. Nothing can defeat the Brits when they pull together.

Such a tiny island; such a major influence on the world!

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Answer 2

After watching that programme on the royal family on friday i felt very proud. In the past 500 years we have been the most influential nation on this planet. Our mindset of doing things has been passed onto nations such as the USA, OZ, India and many other commonwealth countries. Places like France internationally have merely left many violent backward colonies that they felt no obligation to after they got kicked out. We had the industrial revolution and have given the english language to the world. Inventions that people now take for granted come from the uk in the thousands. We held off the Nazi's, napoleon and many other invaders for several years and our armed forces are the most professional (if slightly ill equipped) in the world.

The EU is sucking the last sense of pride out of the UK. In a few hundred years Britain will be as mythical as middle earth. It will be a violent product of EU federalism where North africans, east europeans and Muslims fight over the last scraps of our once strong economy. All the indiginous (people that called themselves british even after the benefit cheque had cleared) would of fled to places like australia and canada. And old men would tell tales of a once great land. Crikey, i think i just came up with a cool idea for a movie!

What we need to rekindle that strong pride to be British is the threat of an aggresor. The EU would of been ideal if they wadded in guns blazing like Hitler and co. But they used the pen rather than the sword so no one notices we are being invaded. But if a 1940 situation happened again and i had to stand on the shores of our country and fight off an invader - i would, and i bloody mean that.

Answer 3

If I was British I would be very Proud.
I am American, but if I could be any other Nationality, it would undoubtedly be British.
Great Britain has, in my opinion, the most revered history in the world. The nations of Australia, South Africa, and the US would not exist without being born of Britain.
The fact that English is the most common second language in the world speaks volumes about accomplishments that Britain has made.

No nations history is free from errors. GB is still a wonderful place to visit, and some of the Greatest Minds to ever grace the face of Earth were British.
Darwin
Shakespeare
Churchill
George Orwell
The Beatles
King Arthur
Margaret Thatcher
William Wallace
Tim Berners-Lee
Chaucer
Milton
John Stuart Mill
Byron
Tolkein
Sir Isaac Newton
Captain James Cook
Sir Alexander Fleming
Thomas Paine (also an American Colonist)
Sir Thomas More
Charles Dickens
Sir Francis Drake
Florence Nightingale
Alexander Graham Bell (naturalized American)
Jane Austen
Bono
Sir Walter Raleigh
and many more...

Even if things in GB are not perfect, you still live in one of the world's greatest Nations, arguably the most civilized nation in the world. British people used to have a sense that they were a very remarkable nation, and they are.

You have to be more positive. If you look for all of the things that are bad, they are easy to spot. The wonderful things are easy to overlook.

Just take a look around you and see that you live in an amazing country that has almost unified the world with 1 language. That has to be one of the greatest national achievements of all time.

You have to try to see all of the things that make your counrty great.

Personally, my favorite living Brit is Bear Grylls....


EDIT TO ASKER:

I have to apologize for Curt. He lacks intelligence, worldliness, humility, reason, and class. Although some Americans like him tend to have the loudest voices, they represent only a small (though frequently cited) minority.

Also, I beg to differ that "as for being American well that is just about the worst you could be!!".

Also, your comment about language, though directed at a moron, all but calls every American stupid, a charge I find to be very amusing.

These comments are more exemplary of people lke Curt, who you chastise, than of a reasonable person.

If you have a great disdain for all Americans and you are not proud to be British, then I question if you are just pathologically negative, beyond help, and undeserving of any futher response.

Answer 4

Having lived in Africa for over 40 years, I'm proud to be English and I am proud of what the British did in Africa. They left a much better place than they found.

Answer 5

I am proud to be British. For two reasons. A) We have without a doubt the most magnificent countryside and natural landscapes in the world (And I have been to Death Valley, Niagra, Himalayas, the Juba Valley, and though these are also amazing), nothing compares to the landscape of the British Isles.

B)History: You have ALL heard this time and time and time again, but our history IS the most diverse, multicultural and furthest reaching on the PLANET. Which country has an historical link with the Sioux Indians in the US, the train system in Africa, the monks of Tibet and both Poles (North and South) ? Even the US can't claim that one!

But you are right about the problems you have listed. We have begun a very slow and very noticable downward spiral, and the good things that I am proud to be British of are overshadowed by the Social, Political, Economical and even Militarial errors of this nation.


'A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government'

EDWARD ABBEY

Answer 6

No, not any more, Indians and others from the Indian sub continent are proud to be "British" and we now see the new term "British " Muslims.It seems we have given our nationality away and those who have taken it are "British and proud of it" I suppose at least some are proud of what is left of the UK.

Answer 7

Go and stand on Primrose Hill, either at day or at night, take a look southwards, and tell me you're not proud of our country.

Personally I am proud to be British, we invent all the best sports, we have all the best music (in the form of Britpop) and we have our traditional values.

Answer 8

Decode this lyrics " Queen of my heart"
Why not?
Being born and raised by our " God mother"
In becoming a " Betterman" as the Son of God.
The mess back home were just blunders and slip-ups with human error created back in the past being expose in time after the mystery of us-911.
Luke 9.55-56
King Arthur with the knights at the round table should look and clear up the mess created in own backyards without being aware of it being created back in the past.
Luke 11.46-52
Getting themselves kick on the butts as casualty of the dead Mummy of failures and horrors of the past in not worshiping God in climbing up the coconut trees and still look green with loss sense of direction and purpose of life in messing up the education system.
Luke 6.39-40,41-45,46-49
What do you think?

Answer 9

not any more since labour got in we have no rights any more we are all being riped off. you work all week to pay the government to sit on the fat asses.freedom of speech does not exist any more.they have stop me in joying a good night out when the freedom of smoking was baned in pubs.

Answer 10

No...A sinking Island it is. Its gets worse by the day, and I am sorry to say would take a miracle to get it back to its former glory, when everybody was proud to be British.