So today is St. George's Day...
I'm all for a bit of patriotism (not that he was actually English; he was Greek)...but I don't feel much sense of warmth when I see the English flag flying high.
I look at it as almost this symbol of racism, the classic English football hooligan, the BNP (I know that's British), the English National Party. Not that I'm saying football hooligans are racist; or that racists are football hooligans for that matter...my point is basically, it conjures images of the not so attractive side of being English, as opposed to what a nations flag should symbolise....
Am I wrong?....I would like to be
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