Brexit Referendum Day

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(06-25-2016, 12:11 PM)bengal kitten uk Wrote: Brit leave voter here and I'm both absolutely overjoyed and somewhat terrified at the result :)

We British like to mock you Americans for your overt patriotism and flag waving while downplaying our own love of our national identity.  For some of our middle class "elite", however, they seem to be embarrassed to be British and ashamed at our past.  They are the ones that were pushing hardest for us to give it all up and move towards the "European Project".  They are the ones pushing for more faith schools, more respect for non-integrating muslims, more anything that isn't British.

American patriotism is necessary. Given our history and the fact that we're a nation that has grown thanks to the influx of various immigrant groups, you need a national identity that everyone can unite under that is ethnically neutral. 

Sons and daughters of people from England, Ireland, Germany, Italy, Greece, China, Mexico, Ghana, Pakistan, etc can all unite as Americans with a shared national identity.