I would like to know if UK holds national-flag-raising ceremony regularly, coz I found that many British don't even know their national anthem.\nIf so, where do British raise their national flag (e.g. in school)? If not, when do they raise their national flag?
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No. We're not big on flag waving and dfeinitely not in school. Uniformed youth groups like the Scouts do it. Where did you find Brits that don't know the national anthemn?
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I honor our servicemen EVERY day. I have my brother's Plebe Summer cap in my back window along with the American flag. I am a flag waver from WAY back...when it was unpopular and frowned upon...it still sickens me to remember the turbulence of the 60's. It wasn't all wonderful music. It was practically another Civil War. I love my country so much.\nTo honor our Veterans:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyI8By-a5uM
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I am from Wales and love the fact that we are so patriotic. I live in London but whenever I meet somebody new from Wales it is as though we are family and already know each other. \n\nMuch of socail life in the valleys of Wales is still as it was hundreds of years ago when Mining was the sole sorce of occupation for Welsh men and people lived in small close communities. \n\nEven though our country, especially the cities (Cardiff and Swansea) have been heavily influenced by the English just across the border, we are very proud to still have and use our own language. (It is one of the oldest spoken languages in Europe)\n\nOur national sport is Rugby and you can always expect to see a large number of Welsh people wherever you are when we play. We are a very sociable nation and our love of our country is very much part of our Identity. I wouldn't change it for the world!!!
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sounds like the american Revolution?  \n\nYou need to find out all the things that are good about England and being part of british empire.   Talk about loyalty to king....talk ahat bout how the "patriots" are traitors that will be hung for their treason.  (you have to embrace and see it from the perspective of the loyalists)
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Yes, there's quite a lot of us from the UK, although we don't all still LIVE there, some of us are in other countries now!\n\nThe UK link at the bottom is a bit of a waste of time ... the questions are still the same .com ones!!!\n\nAnyway, lots of people ask questions like "For Brits only - what does this mean ...??" so just go ahead and post those Qs!!
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I think it would be good to split the union especially now since its the 300th anniversary in 2007. I dont want to start arguments about countries which would survive outside of it or which countries support others. It is a myth that England supports the neighbouring countries though. Sure; Scotland for example is given a hefty supplemet every year to look after itself but only from money the UK (NOT England - contrary to popular belief) has earned ie from oil (which is actually Scottish anyway)and tourism - which all nations in the kingdom earn. Please dont continue flaming or anything. I havent said anything to insult anyone and everything I have said is fact. btw Robespierre made the classic fault assuming Wales and Scotland were in England. They are not and never have been, I strongly suggest you don't say that when you are in one of those smaller UK nations. You may be risking your health ;)
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Tell us which country you're in and you might get some answers applicable to your question. (Yes, I know this is the UK site, but at this time of the day, you never know WHO'S about !!!)
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when one of the burning questions in the news nationwide is "should muslim women wear a veil or not?" then i think the national identity of the UK has already disappeared, there are much more important issues to be discussed than this, and to deflect the awareness of the country away from the important things that face them in their everyday life, ie crime,unemployment,poverty etc. I feel we are having our media manipulated in order to garner sympathy for a cause that does not need it, that cause being the advancement of Islam, which is one of the largest religions in the world, and you know what really pees me off? the muslims say they're being trampled by this government, when if it wasn't for the english people taking them in from their troubled countries, they would probably be dead now.
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Their national anthem? lol
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I'm not Latin, but I think this is an abomination.\nI saw a story on the news Memorial Day about Belgian children.  Belgium is where Flanders field cemetery is located.\nThe Belgian children learn the Star Spangled Banner in ENGLISH, to thank the American soldiers for sacrificing their lives for their country.\nWhy is it the Latin countries want to pervert our national anthem?  We would never be able to do such a thing in their country, we would be immediately deported/jailed.
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This whole business is firing up war of words!\nThe haka is a great rugby tradition, but in every ground all over the world, the home team always has the last say before KO, IE they sing their  anthem last! So why should the Nz have it different? They would not like it in their own back yard to be told wot to do! The WRU told NZRU in October that the haka would be preformed in between the two anthems! The AB's then changed their mind on Saturday!\nMaybe "Hen Wlad Fy'n Nhadau" may not pump adrenaline, but it sure as hell, fires the passion!
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The Pledge of Allegiance is recited every morning at the start of the school day in schools. The Pledge goes like this:\n\nI pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, for liberty and justice for all. \n\n(woo - that was from memory!)\n\nI have never run into another situation in which the pledge is recited. It's certainly not recited in the workplace. \n\nHere's a bit of trivia for you: The pledge of allegiance was first started in 1893 as part of the festivities that went along with the 1893 World's Fair held in Chicago. The idea was to have all of the country's children recite the pledge at the same time. I guess it just stuck. :)  (I read that in the Devil in the White City by Erik Lawson - a non-fiction book about the 1893 World's Fair - great book, I highly recommend it!)
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YES DEFINATELY !! COME ON ENGLAND !! I think EVERYONE should fly a flag from their home and cars etc... I have got my home dressed up with flags flying out and my car is covered too ! I shall be watching and praying on Saturday. Fingers Crossed !! x
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Is it fair that Prince William gets to be king and I don't?\n\nIs it fair to everyone else in the UK that their tax dollars go to support a family of unelected morons?\n\nLife isn't fair.  From where I'm sitting, Prince William is one of the luckiest of us.
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As I live in England I would like to see this happen ,we English are being denied an identity because we have to call ourselves British.The Scots want to go it alone anyway so as most Scots seem to want to break the union and now more and more English do then I think it's a good idea.However I am talking from an English point of view ,wether the people in Wales and NI want the same I don't know ,But I will only vote for it if we are truly liberated from the other 3 nations and not left to look after N I or Wales .If they stay in the union then we all stay in the union .
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Are they really getting rid of Grandstand??\n\nThat's an affront to the very notion of "Britishness" ... !?\n\nDa da-li da did did-du- da da laa di daa...\n\nduh di duh du, la da da di du duh, DUH DUH DI DU DUH.
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Technically, Britain is a constitutional monarchy... and the fact that the police and army and MPs etc have to swear allegiance to her is outrageous (the Queen is also head of the Church of England, of course, and Britain is now a secular multi-cultural country, and proud of it). Laws cannot be passed in this country without the Queen's signature. And as a previous messager said, they are anyway greedy parasites who have the IQ of an amoeba between them because they are all inbred. What right do they and the rest of the so-called aristocracy have to their wealth? Did they earn it by honest toil? Or did they steal it at the point of a sword? Let's be done with them all. Stuff them all and put them in Madame Tussauds. The wasters.