Unlike some posters on this thread, I don't care that you spent your formative years in Australia - you are welcome here and I am genuinely pleased that you want to take an interest in English traditions, but you have massively misunderstood the motivation behind them.

Absolutely; you can't get any clearer than that. I welcome you as an essential part of English Culture as it is, even if for you this means something entirely different. The only thing that matters about English Culture are the people living it, which is to say everyone living in England at this point in time - yourself included.