>>It's 'my' English

No, it bloody isn't.<<

Yes, it is, as in 'it's the way I write, spell, whatever, as in my way of 'English', that is, *my* English. You've got your way, I've got mine. My way means that I don't tell people how to write English. :0)

And...er...talking of South Africa and Ireland, and Judaism, let's read about Peter Ackroyd's 'Albion'

"It isn't our resistance to foreign influences that makes us English, he argues, but our ability to assimilate them: "Englishness is the principle of appropriation." We're a "mungrell" nation - hybrid, heterogenous, adaptive, accumulative, eclectic. Forget blood or genes. National traits come with the territory. The common ground we have is the ground itself. Placism, not racism, should be the slogan."

Taken from: Peter Ackroyd's 'Albion' (The Origins of the English Imagination)

"Placism, not racism, should be the slogan."

So, let's place Sid James and George Best right back where they belong, as part of English culture..alongside all the other people, places and things already mentioned in here.