Lox - you miss the point. Society is made up of individuals each of whom have their unique cultural experience. No one is pushing this subjective cultural experience as definitively authentic in any sense other than by way of personal immediacy, which is in a state of flux anyway. We find our friends, our common-minds, and from time to time certain points of multiple contact emerge that might even begin to resemble a consensus, but in no way will it ever become an absolute, thank God, though there those for whom that illusion will be enough.

And yes, there are village greens and church bells; but there are also landfills, inner-city no go areas, motorways, underpasses, council estates, waste grounds, and human and cultural deprivations that would make the third world blush. But the suburban ghetto engenders more beauty in terms of culture as any pretty little English village which priced out the original villagers years ago. You might see that as being somehow typical, quintessential, and maybe desirable - I see it as an atypical & highly reactionary anomaly preserved purely for the benefit of a very tiny minority.

England Culture is the reality of cultural life for every single person resident in England. In this respect I fear the rather exclusive clichés put forward (such as those in the song below) fall appallingly short of the mark and are, therefore, a Faux-Englishness which in being of no use, can only ever function as ornament.