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Originally Posted by steeljack
Race was a 'funny' thing with my Dad , he had no time for Aussies , but Canadians particulary from Nova Scotia and the Maritimes were great folks ..... went back to WW2 and his days in the Navy . Same with the Germans , he and my Mum were once on holiday in Spain , the hotel 50/50 Brits and Germans, they got talking to some Germans of a similar age because of his tattoos (think they were from the German equivalent of the British Legion) , found they had a lot of common memories, war in the Med etc. and reckoned it was one of the best holidays they ever had.
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National Pride and cultural identity are all conditioned in us by parents, relatives and peer groups. Everybody wants to belong and fit in with people around them, so we all are prepared to play lip service to local and national identity. However with the large amounts of immigrants coming in, there are so many that they aren't prepared to merge into our identity and many are trying to get us to change to their identity and infact don't need to fit in as they bring their own!