Are people who are so keen to keep what they call British Identity?

also prepared to give up all the americanised aspects of our country. This would mean no:

10 pin bowling, KFC, McDonalds, Burger King, Asda (owned by walmart an american corporation), Parcel delivery service outside the post office, American Express (duh), american cars.

Other things you would have to give up as they just arent 100% british:

Sony (playstation 1,2,3 and tvs, dvds), Nintendo DS, Nike, Reebok, Adidas, BMW, Mercedes, Skoda,

ooh the list goes on.

So how many are you prepared to give up?

Jonathan - if you would like to just glance over the q again you would realise i didnt refer to sony products as american

Mrs G they are the same people who get wasted on the weekends and have a curry or a kebab on the way home! LOL @ that one!!!!! So very British that!

All of them.

of course, they are all non essential

I would gladly sacrifice my Sony products to get rid of all the other things you mention, they're all rubbish.

British made products will probably be better anyway. If there were no imports then of course we would make all our own stuff, including ambulances, TVs, games consoles. We're not totally incapable you know.

Don't see what's so daft about my comments here. Are you Johnny Foreigner or something? Brits invented plenty of the things on your list, including the telephone, light bulb, aeroplane, television, the list goes on.

yes i would gladly sacrifice everything you stated to have my country back. the bad outwiegh the good by a million to one.

Well you can shove 10 pin bowling for a start!

As for the other stuff, i think the world's too small a place to try and protect your national id totally.

Lets just hang on to the little things like our sense of humour, bowler hats, love of a cuppa, obsession with the weather, worlds best chocolate, Essex girls etc etc.. ; )

(blimey, i answered a question seriously, need more wine......)

If these things are what makes our country's identity to you then you are a very shallow person, the British identity is in our manner, our culture, our language, our traditions which include the Imperial weights and measures system, the use of Royal stamps and Royal currency. The things that also make us have an identity are our democratic government and the previous and current Prime Ministers seem to have done and are about to do as much as possible to get rid of that. Retaining our National Identity would not mean that we can't have foreign cars or eat foreign food.

Techinaly it be only American Brand T.V's since the television was invented by a Scotsman

Those are not British identity.

They are people living in a tiny Island who were the only ones

who were prepared to stop Nazism and Fascism

Oh yeah!! Definitly we dont need that consumer capitilist crap!! I want to see small family businesses flourish and our culture to come back!! There are still a lot remote parts of Scotland who are struggling to keep their wee businesses open cos of competition from these corporate b**tards!! I dont agree with capitalism! All this stuff- we dont need it!! its just invented so rich corporate companies can get more money still, and to help the rich flash their cash in egotistical ways, while the poor are completely losing out on everything!!

Yes, I'd give them all up, but one you've missed is the use of the term "guy". Do the English people who use it realise how stupid they sound - it's alright with an American accent, but in any British accent it sounds absolutely ridiculous. Kindly desist, guys!!

All of them, they didn't come hear to give us anything, they came to make money and they have made a lot of that, or they would have gone back home.

When Britons say that they want to keep their national identity, they're taking about ending mass immigration. And about making minorities assimilate into mainstream British society. The primary duty you have as a human being is to preserve the heritage of your ancestors. And to pass on to your children a country they can call their own, & where they can live in dignity. The British shouldn't have to give up anything to perserve their culture & homeland.

There are aspects of what I see as British Identity that would be good to keep. Stiff upper lip, "Mustn't Grumble" all that sort of thing. The Spirit that took us through two World Wars and that allowed us to pick ourselves up after 7/7, dust ourselves off and go back to work. All very positive aspects of being British. Furthermore those qualities are not a racial thing. Anyone can have them. Anyone can "be British" if they want to be.

We are sadly losing a lot of our community spirit as we become more and more consumeristic, work orientated and greedy.

But being "British" obviously doens't mean you can't enjoy things from other cultures. You can be aware of your own identity and still participate in and enjoy things from other cultures too. As a white girl who trained in Classical Indian dance and music I have been there done that!

However as regards:

10 pin bowling,
KFC,
McDonalds,
Burger King,
Asda (owned by walmart an american corporation)
American Express (duh),
American cars.
Nintendo DS,
Nike,
Reebok,
Adidas,
Skoda,

I could give all those up in aheartbeat, lol! No great loss (especially not MaccyD's. Vile, artery-clogging muck . . .!)

If you ask me all the moaners who bleat on about "losing British identity"have'nt got a clue what that is.These are the people who are choosing not to see where and how it exist's and take great pleasure in blaming immigration and diversity for taking it away.They are too thick to understand that they can live side by side with minority groups and still hold onto their British culture.This culture is right under thier noses but they are too blinded by hate and ignorance to see it.There is an abundance of British culture that people take for granted and so do not acknowledge it's very existence.

You are so far off base it isn't even funny.

Being british is a way of life, 20 years ago the UK was not like it is now, those of us who were born in 1970's and 1980's remember a 'typical British up bringing'.

If you did not live in England then you will not realise the sharp changes our country has gone through. And why we feel we need to hold on to 'our way of life', before the PC group tells us we are being PC incorrect and Brussels shoves another rule under our noses!

The great influx and the changes the EU has 'forced' on us , has taken many of us as a shock to the system. We are told how we can weigh our food; What we can call our food, for example a "Bakewell tart' (pie) must be made in Bakewell to be called a Bakewell tart (pie). We can only work so many work per week, unless in certain professions, we can not weigh our food in certain measurements, we can not call a man hole cover, a man hole cover because someone in Brussels thought it was sexist. We can not call a blackboard a blackboard in the school class room (what you ise to write on at the front of the class)anymore it is thought as a racist remark, the fact the board was black in color, seemed lost on the PC crowd.

Noddy (BBC Children's TV from the 70/80's) had a PC update. Remember Noddy use to live with 'big ears'? And the other characters on that show when you were a kid? Well, now it is more PC so we don't affend any social group etc.

It seems we are always being told what we can do and say, and people are realising that the typical british way of life is dieing a painful death.

Good point!!!

I am American, but lately I've been noticing how many British people have been posting on here about how immigrants are bringing in foreign cultures and religions, and *GASP* even daring to wear islamic clothing in public! They always sound very racist and xenophobic.

EDIT: To Johnathan: What do you mean aeroplanes were invented in Britain?! The first airplane was invented here in the U.S.!!! And it was long after the U.S. seceded from Britain (by about 127 years)!

The american stuff would be the first to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i dont think a few foreign products and chain restuarants are the problem - but have you ever been to tooting, theres such a thing as going a bit to far. when theres mosques popping up all over the place - people will start to get slightly annoyed.

We will live on pie and mash alone