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Your post comes across very coonish I remember a poem from primary school that a woman wrote and it said she is a foriegner in the land she was born and raised in and also a foriegner when she goes ba

JOHN DOE
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i say im from london beacuse i am    i was not born in Ghana I was born here    I say my parent are from xxx but i was born here    stacks unless you were born in nigeria, you are not nigerian 

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I know enough about my roots to know I don't really care. People from mine and other ethnic backgrounds look at mule funny when I say I am English/British when asked where I am from. A debate about genealogy or some shit ensues. I shutdown the argument by saying one thing:

"It doesn't matter if I am of Sri Lankan origin. That country is not my home. England is. Therefore I am English. You wouldn't debate if I was playing for the England football team. In fact if I scored a hat trick in the World Cup final every Dave would be wearing my name on the back of their shirts"

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I know enough about my roots to know I don't really care. People from mine and other ethnic backgrounds look at mule funny when I say I am English/British when asked where I am from. A debate about genealogy or some shit ensues. I shutdown the argument by saying one thing:

"It doesn't matter if I am of Sri Lankan origin. That country is not my home. England is. Therefore I am English. You wouldn't debate if I was playing for the England football team. In fact if I scored a hat trick in the World Cup final every Dave would be wearing my name on the back of their shirts"

Your post comes across very coonish

I remember a poem from primary school that a woman wrote and it said she is a foriegner in the land she was born and raised in and also a foriegner when she goes back to her so called homeland.... This is true for the majority of 2nd and 3rd even 4th generation immigrants

I feel we are lucky, get to take the best bits and the bits we enjoy most from both cultures and blend them in... I could never beg it and call myself english outright when i know so many real english people would not accept me or say offensive things about my or my parents culture wether its in jest or serious but the very same way when i go back to my parents place of birth i might look like the locals and speak the same language, eat the same foods, have the same cultural values but as soon as they find out im from london i get treated like any jack the tourist and called a Londoner (this is the same as englishman as london is england in most forigen countries).

Personally i dont feel where you come from or where your origins are from should play a big deal in your life, i dont get people who die for a country or even say im proud to be this ir that... As you have 0 choice in this however you should still acknowledge and embrace your heritage (cant be acting like dave when your not, simple minor things like foods effect us all differently because of our backgrounds and of course medical conditions can be very race based) as i said in another topic i feel this is for your parents to teach you about because english culture you will learn in school/life growing up.

Multicultural is a shit word in the context its used this country, it would be better to describe a person who has the culture of the country they were brought up in and the culture of thier families homeland.

I find it so sad that you shun your families culture, its just as bad as those Pakistanis that are born here and have no english culture.

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I don't think it was a good post. I think it was a biased post coming from a guy who doesn't particularly like the country he is in and dislikes even more any non white person admitting they are British/English. So I'll give a one sided reply too.

 

What is this "Dave" business. You make it sound like every English person is some pub going beer swiller. I don't even drink and I prefer foreign foods over British Cuisine. Does that make me less of an Englishman?

 

How can you tell the next man who's parents come from a next country that he is not English when he's been born here, schooled here, lives the same lifestyle, dresses the same way, shares the same values, follows the same laws etc etc. I have no problem at all with people recognizing their heritage but to tell man he's not English or is begging it is absolute trash. Some divisive attitude to have. You say you don't think it should be a big deal where you are from and yet you were bitching in another topic about England and claiming you are Turk instead.

 

I'd die for this country only to defend this country like some of the people before me have. To defend a lifestyle and culture that has been created here that is united under a name and flag. I certainly wouldn't be sent overseas to die for the country in the name of an false war for some rich man.

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I know enough about my roots to know I don't really care. People from mine and other ethnic backgrounds look at mule funny when I say I am English/British when asked where I am from. A debate about genealogy or some sh*t ensues. I shutdown the argument by saying one thing:

"It doesn't matter if I am of Sri Lankan origin. That country is not my home. England is. Therefore I am English. You wouldn't debate if I was playing for the England football team. In fact if I scored a hat trick in the World Cup final every Dave would be wearing my name on the back of their shirts"

 

You should be proud of where you originate from. I have a friend that I grew up with from Shri Lanka him and his brothers had some deep issues about the color of their skin they wished they were white and felt that they didn't fit in. What's so great about being English anyway? lol

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or·i·gin
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noun
noun: origin; plural noun: origins
  1. 1.
    the point or place where something begins, arises, or is derived.
    "a novel theory about the origin of oil"
    synonyms: beginning, start, commencement, origination, genesis, birth, dawning,dawn, emergence, creation, birthplace, cradle; More
     
     
     
     
     

 

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I know enough about my roots to know I don't really care. People from mine and other ethnic backgrounds look at mule funny when I say I am English/British when asked where I am from. A debate about genealogy or some shit ensues. I shutdown the argument by saying one thing:

"It doesn't matter if I am of Sri Lankan origin. That country is not my home. England is. Therefore I am English. You wouldn't debate if I was playing for the England football team. In fact if I scored a hat trick in the World Cup final every Dave would be wearing my name on the back of their shirts"

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