BUT, Surreysinger, this modern English trend goes far beyond replacing "English country dance" with "ceilidh," or an English football manager with an Italian, of course. And I'm not, of course, alone in feeling the urge to speak/sing out, despite the flak. Without naming names/quoting, well-known pro folkies have recently stated how we may never know how much we English have lost, and how we don't seem to know who we are any more, etc.

Our past imperialism WAS wrong, but that doesn't mean we should keep shooting ourselves, culturally, in the foot.