The very characteristics, in fact, which made England great

I suppose the point is that cultures are largely illusory on account of our ongoing inability to see the trees for the wood; if one adopts a more ethnomethodological approach then we might clarify what might be going on here. There is no culture without people, and there is no folk culture, in the sense we understand it here on Mudcat with our notions of folk music etc, that has any bearing whatsoever on the everyday lives of the vast majority of English Folks. So even if it was true that it is the rest-of-the-world's good wish / To sense culture that is English, it certainly would not involve Morris Dancing which most English Folk would see as at best a cliché of eccentric anachronism and at worst a risible embarrassment. There is no such thing as our own good English culture, certainly not in the sense that it is being used here.

Anyhoo - it's half eleven & the sun is shining & all is well - hope it is wherever you lot are too; so enjoy the day. Just a shame The Pierrotters aren't at Blackpool's North Pier this weekend - now there's English Culture which everyone can & does enjoy!