LTS - You're right, of course, though I would have thought anything that people do with respect to crack & cameraderie at least approaches being a basic human right. This would include fox-hunting (which might also be justified on grounds of husbandry & ecology, but that's another issue...) and smoking in pubs / cafes etc, which in my smoking days (I gave up on August 22nd 2000 on serious medical advice) was such an essential aspect of the culture of community & communication, as it had been since my childhood (fox-hunting likewise).

Otherwise - I'm proud of my culture, and my heritage, and proud of everything I am from the colour of my skin, through the shape of my Anglo-Irish-Jewish nose, to the circumcised dick that caused me as much traumatic ridicule at school as any racism per-se. But I'm not so proud of my culture that I can't see it as being as much a part of the wider condition of British cultural pluralism as it is an entirely subjective interpretation of something that is only mine as long as I'm alive to acknowledge & celebrate it. Culture is as people do; and once they stop doing it (for whatever reason) then it ain't. Any objective existence is, therefore, illusionary, a mirage brought about by those who can't see the trees for the fecking wood (smoking and fox-hunting included, of course).