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Bookmark or Share- What Is ‘Britishness’, and Is It Important? | SpringerLinkThe notion of ‘Britishness’ has acquired growing importance in policy and public discourse during the current century. This has had a number of different, and often contradictory, elements. On the one hand there have been attempts to promote a renewed...
- The English question: What is the nation's identity? - BBC NewsPeople in England may feel English, British, something else or a mixture. Our survey tested the relative strengths of people's relationship with different geographies. Its findings suggest 80% of...
- British national identity - WikipediaBritish national identity is a term referring to the sense of national identity, as embodied in the shared and characteristic culture, languages and traditions, [2] of the British people. [3][4] It comprises the claimed qualities that bind and distinguish the British people and form the basis of their unity and identity, [5] and the expressions ...
- British National Identity and the Dilemmas of MulticulturalismThe lack of symbolic content to the concept of Britishness is what has led to difficulties in developing a civic mythology capable of unifying a multicultural Britain. The result has been the implementation of policies of multiculturalism divorced from any notion of national unity.
- What does it mean to be British? And who defines it?At its simplest, being British is a legal status of citizenship, as Diane Abbott MP (and Shadow Home Secretary) emphasised during the 2019 LSE Festival. It is conferred by birth and registration or acquired following completion of a number of requirements including a period of residence and a test.
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