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Thread #110424   Message #2472962
Posted By: GUEST,Howard Jones
22-Oct-08 - 02:12 PM
Thread Name: England's National Musical-Instrument?
Subject: RE: England's National Musical-Instrument?
"prefering E trads to be perfmormed traditionally is not bigoted."

and your idead of what "performed traditionally" means is bizarre.

WAV, I strongly urge you to listen to Maggie Holland's song "A Place Called England", which champions the old-fashioned values and spirit of England you seem to yearn for, "sore abused but not yet dead ... hanging in there like a thread" but contains these lines:

"Come all you at home with freedom, whatever the country of your birth
There's room for you, both root and branch, as long as you love the English earth"

That's the real England, WAV, and has been for centuries, absorbing Normans, Jews, Huguenots, Chinese, West Indians, Irish, Asians and even wandering Australians. That's not to say that assimilation has always been easy, but immigration is an essential element of what makes England. To deny immigration, even with all its problems, is to deny England itself.

Listen to that song, WAV, and you might understand your adopted country better.