I'm not quite sure where that rough guide gets it's ideas from really. As a whole England is incredibly UNpatriotic, at least in the less idiotic sectors. We just moan. Even the idiot Sun readers who ARE supposedly 'patriotic' spend half their time bitching about the government or whatever other part of the country's admin they hate that day. Hardly patriotic. The closest you get is 80 year olds who speak so dearly of our country, but that's like any country.
Patriotic? Hardly. Noone believes in the governments ability here, aside from Conservative people who forever believe that they'll do well if the Tory's are in power. They're right, THEY will do well.... however the average citizen who doesn't have a 6 bedroom house like them won't.
We are as a whole definitely self important though. Anyone who is remotely intelligent wreaks of self importance, myself included.
We embrace multiculturalism not because it 'just works' (it doesn't, it needs effort) but because it is correct & human to accept other cultures. It is fair, and it broadens the mind. It does become ghettoised in parts, but it's better than trying to ram some sort of cookie cutter culture into people who have enough difficulty with social differences between cultural groups here, never mind anything else.
Patriotic? Hardly. Noone believes in the governments ability here, aside from Conservative people who forever believe that they'll do well if the Tory's are in power. They're right, THEY will do well.... however the average citizen who doesn't have a 6 bedroom house like them won't.
We are as a whole definitely self important though. Anyone who is remotely intelligent wreaks of self importance, myself included.
We embrace multiculturalism not because it 'just works' (it doesn't, it needs effort) but because it is correct & human to accept other cultures. It is fair, and it broadens the mind. It does become ghettoised in parts, but it's better than trying to ram some sort of cookie cutter culture into people who have enough difficulty with social differences between cultural groups here, never mind anything else.