'British culture'
Aug. 28th, 2024 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smmgI'm not really interested in engaging with anything where "British" is:
1: Although personally I think we should retire those geographical uses since they're just not politically neutral terms, and at worst have connotations of cultural genocide of the non-English nations of these isles at the hands of the English, and making us all "British". Think of that quote "Britishness is a political synonym for Englishness which extends English culture over the Scots, the Welsh, and the Irish". And I would add that the Cornish could very well do with being added to that quote.
- Treated like one homogenised culture (that homogenised culture ALWAYS being English and ignoring the minority languages/cultures/nations here). And...
- It's completely ignored that the modern usage of "British" is very much a political term that begun existence with the Acts of Union. I.e., not the usage that just implies Britain as an island, or the "British Isles"1, or British being used to mean Common-Brythonic-speaking peoples and their language.
1: Although personally I think we should retire those geographical uses since they're just not politically neutral terms, and at worst have connotations of cultural genocide of the non-English nations of these isles at the hands of the English, and making us all "British". Think of that quote "Britishness is a political synonym for Englishness which extends English culture over the Scots, the Welsh, and the Irish". And I would add that the Cornish could very well do with being added to that quote.
