Does England have a culture?

Question

Scotland has a culture. England on the other hand seems too need "enrichment" from other cultures because its so boring and bland. Well that's the impression I get from the media and the politicians, is that the case?

Answer 1

The folklore and culture of England is as rich if not richer than anywhere else in the world. Parts of England still celebrate ancient pagan festivals for crying out loud! Is just anyone who promotes or takes an interest in English culture and tradition is branded a fascist.

Answer 2

Speaking as a Welshman. England has a rich and diverse history and culture. I know that you are probably educationally challenged but you may have heard of some of these things



Robin Hood

King Arthur

Magna Carta

The Mother of Parliaments

Agincourt

Gallipoli

The Somme

Waterloo

Churchill

Pitt the Younger

The Boxer Rebellion

The Wars of the Roses

The English Civil War

Darwin

Isaac Newton

Milton

The Battle of the Boyne

The Easter Uprising

The Indian Mutiny

The British Empire

The Battle of Britain

Charles Dickens

Bram Stokers Dracula

Mary Shelleys Frankenstein





If you haven't heard of any of these, do yourself a favour and google them. You have four hundred years of history, it has been a good start. You have achieved some wonderful things but we have a five thousand year head start. As for the Muslim obsessed individuals on YA. The Muslims form about 4% of our population. We have absorbed wave after wave of immigrants for thousands of years and in a few generations the Muslims will assimilate. Their religion won't matter because religion doesn't matter in this country.

Answer 3

Yes it has a culture, it is just people tend to ignore it. There is English literature going back to the 7th Century, Sports such as Football, Rugby, Horse racing, queueing and extreme Ironing. Though English cuisine does let the side down a bit but then the English have never been guilty of the horrors of Norwegian Lutefisk or the Icelandic Svid ('Burned' Sheep-heads) and Hakarl (Rotted Shark), Hrutspungar (Sour Ram's Testicles). Whilst England has far more edible foods and much of Americas food is derived from English customs, then there is the beers, cider and the wines are improving now. As for the bad teeth, well they bumped into me with my clawhammer just after I saw Oldboy me bad.

Answer 4

Very much so - it's just hard to define what is British because other countries have borrowed so much. They take all the best bits and pass it off as their own, then act ungratefully when they have the legal systems, freedoms and civilised societies that were based on ours. If we hadn't bothered to form the Empire, most other countries would be tribal villages worshipping spirits, living in filth and admiring the society we built up from the middle ages on. We and a few other neighbouring European countries would be the only civilised societies.



Hello Americans? The language you're speaking is called English. If our culture "sucks" then go and invent your own language then. You have a few hundred years of history, we have thousands. Your culture is largely modelled on ours and you have added bits to it.

Answer 5

England has their own culture, contributions to the world, and historical figures.

Henry VIII

Horatio Nelson

William Shakespeare

Isaac Newton

Charles Darwin

Jethro Tull (the agriculturalist not the band)

J R R Tolkien

Syd Barrett

Answer 6

Of course it has a culture. All countries have cultures. The thing is, some countries have a need to scream about their culture and others don't. Scotland screams about its culture and reduces it to simple things like kilts, haggises and tossing cabers. England just has an organic culture and way of life.

Answer 7

A culture is defined by a series of habits that are unique to that specific object, but those habits don't have to be originated in it.

England has unique habits, such as their pub habits, tea habits, football habits, and such.

Therefore they do have a culture, like the American culture includes many sport habits that are mainly unique to them.

Remember that the question isn't if certain people in England have a culture, but if the entire place has a culture.

Answer 8

Of course they have a culture! It might not be an interesting one to you, but every country everywhere has some kind of culture!



Also, about British people having bad teeth. That's a myth that started with Austin Powers, the little jerk.

Answer 9

Wensleydale: I agree with your list but its missing Shakespeare!!!



Personally I think England has two cultures, separated by class. One is football, drinking, darts, snooker, pubs, fighting, drinking etc etc, and the other is upper class - centred around the Royal family, operas, debutantes and all the rest of it, which most people aren't interested in, unless they are snobs or have high aspirations.

Answer 10

of course it has



but the media is busy rubbishing it to make immigrants think they are enriching us



the enrichment i can do without....we get told about the food

england had food before immigration got out of control



our health service would fall apart

we had a health service before the immigration got out of control.....and we'd need fewer nhs staff if we had fewer immigrants abusing the service the british have paid for



we have football, cricket, theatre, ballet, cinema, art, dance,literature, etc



we had them before the immigration got out of control and immigrants have contributed little to them

Answer 11

England's culture suffered the same fate as any empire. It ultimately became a mix of it's own and all that it conquered. The thing with England is that that all happened so long ago that most folks think that it just sprang from the earth that way.

Answer 12

What's with all the anti-English remarks? Do you really think over the hundreds and hundreds of years they don't have *culture*? That they just stole things/influences from other people's lands all this time? My god people!

Answer 13

Yeah, England does have a culture - it's called Yob Culture or multi-culture. Take your pick!

Answer 14

They do, it's just not made of plastic so I doubt someone with "Go USA!" as their avatar name would notice it :)



The English culture is based on tea, cricket and sending prisoners to paradise :D

Answer 15

You should spend a week with us in Somerset. Barn dances, Morris Men, wassailing, cider drinking, skittles and the Wurzles.

Answer 16

English culture, like American, spread itself so widely across the world that it seems like background noise.



It's not that it does not exist - it's that you don't see it.

Answer 17

live my life for a week and god fuckin hell, theres nowhere like it on the planet, its more subcultures and underground scenes people arent aware of, but once you've got that social network of friends across your town/city you realise there is nowhere you would rather be

Answer 18

Without us, there'd be no America, it's not that I'm proud to be english, but what culture does America have? Burger king and the superbowl

Answer 19

Though I am an American, from what I know about England, it has no culture. The steady wave of immigration into England has created a myth of "multi-culturalism" when in reality, there is no comradory or culture in England.



The only party that seems interested in England's culture and future homogeneity is the BNP, but they have been accused of racism and they aren't popular enough to win any major elections.

Answer 20

It must be hard to be 15 and still in kindergarten. I mean that is the reason for this question right.

Answer 21

cul⋅ture

  /ˈkʌltʃər/ [kuhl-cher] noun, verb, -tured, -tur⋅ing.

–noun

1. the quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.







So, yes, they do.

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Answer 22

Have you ever opened a history book?

Answer 23

Sure they do........just watch any Austin Powers movie!

* Bad teeth

* Fish N Chips

* Big Ben

* Cops without guns

* Punk Rockers

* disgusting food

* Cloudy Weather

* Fog

* Medieval Castles

* Robin Hood

* King Arhtur

* Winston Chruchill

* Spitfires

* Red Coats

* Powdered Wigs

* The Beatles

* Peter Pan

* James Bond

* The Queen

* Lady Diana

* The Bentley

* The Union Jack

* And Sweeny Todd!

Answer 24

Yea man its called Muslimania , bit like beatlemania except most people don't want it , but the liberal left wing Gestapo are going to make shure they jolly well do!

Answer 25

Yeah, we just don't pay attention to it.

Answer 26

they have bland and boring culture... that is considered a culture y'know?





jk

Answer 27

Yes, Muslim.

And getting worse every day.

Answer 28

a culture of crappy futbol, bad teeth and coronation street yes.