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Thread #111493   Message #2349544
Posted By: WalkaboutsVerse
26-May-08 - 04:02 PM
Thread Name: 'English Country Dances', Please
Subject: RE: 'English Country Dances', Please
I watched on Scottish Gaelic TV, just the other day, a programme where Gaels were discussing the visit of Alan Lomax; and one comment made was that he seemed to help Scottish culture in that, before his visit, it was standard in Scotland to sing from an Oxford book of ENGLISH folk songs. I agree, that's a good change, but if an Englishman says suchlike, as I just did, he has to put up with the B-word and/or the R-word. We should be more proud of our own good English culture - WITHOUT being imperialistic about it, this time.