Alien Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 ^^ This is similar to my view about national pride. If you feel proud of the good aspects of England's past, should you not also be ashamed of the bad parts? This question is for anyone who answered 'yes' in some form. To answer yes I find strange in itself. If I had control prior to my birth maybe, I could say the same about the colour of my eyes..am I proud that their a certain colour? The colour of your eyes or place of birth isn't an achievement..how can one be proud of something you haven't achieved. I'm neither proud or ashamed of the good/bad aspects of our national past. I am fortunate however to have been born in a relatively safe environment, then again I'd probably say the same If I was born in Sweden or some such. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucifer Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 I'm proud to be Welsh and British. What about Patagonian as well ?. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clairelaw123 Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Why is it people from England are accused of racism for being proud to be English? you can like other countries and nationalities and be tolerant and still be proud of England. Maybe thats the problem, we are not as a nation proud to be English, therefore we treat it like dirt and let people come in to ruin it and sponge off the land, and yes I'm talking about our immigration problem. You read my post wrong. I said it makes me think of racist groups, it was opinion. I'm not sure why you think people need to come IN to sponge off the land? There are plenty of English already sponging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucifer Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 I love England, it's a small little country but it's spot on all in all. We are very lucky to live here. Better than being scottish, welsh, irish and french but not as good as them next to France, Holland, Belgium and others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Can't say I'm proud. Pride comes after an achievement, not an accident of birth. I'm happy to have been born in Britain rather than a multitude of other places that offer less hope and opportunity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pollywu Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Hello everyone. just try yo read my feeling of this post.. I am just a Chinese girl (come from Hong Kong) who want to improve my English for the design course in the comming Sep... my English is bloodybloody terrible in Speaking.. The interviewer loves my works very much but he just told me seriously : you better improve your english... it is a little bit weak for me.. That's why I am here.. And discover this post.. Really WANT TO TELL YOU GUYS! whatever you are proud of being a English. You are the luckiest human in the world.. There is no perfect goverment in the world including Obama. But you are living in a place with artistic culture and living enviroment surrounding.. whatever you feel your place is artiatic or not.. over 100 thousand Chinese student studying in UK and their parent and they are suffering heavy pressure.. for what? and why? for the better future.. and, becasue of our country is unable to provide the best education system for their youngsters ... You should believe that song saying the place you are living is the other paradise.. allow me to say that.. try to forgive the emigrants.. they just want to have a better live.. and try to encourage the oversea student who study hard. Thank you for your reading.. Your posts and this whole Forum are helping me to change that interviewer's mind. So thank you all again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clairelaw123 Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Hello everyone. just try yo read my feeling of this post.. I am just a Chinese girl (come from Hong Kong) who want to improve my English for the design course in the comming Sep... my English is bloodybloody terrible in Speaking.. The interviewer loves my works very much but he just told me seriously : you better improve your english... it is a little bit weak for me.. That's why I am here.. And discover this post.. Really WANT TO TELL YOU GUYS! whatever you are proud of being a English. You are the luckiest human in the world.. There is no perfect goverment in the world including Obama. But you are living in a place with artistic culture and living enviroment surrounding.. whatever you feel your place is artiatic or not.. over 100 thousand Chinese student studying in UK and their parent and they are suffering heavy pressure.. for what? and why? for the better future.. and, becasue of our country is unable to provide the best education system for their youngsters ... You should believe that song saying the place you are living is the other paradise.. allow me to say that.. try to forgive the emigrants.. they just want to have a better live.. and try to encourage the oversea student who study hard. Thank you for your reading.. Your posts and this whole Forum are helping me to change that interviewer's mind. So thank you all again. This is really nice to hear! I hope learning English goes really well for you and wish you lots of luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pollywu Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 to clairelaw123, thanks for your words, its a big encouragement for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harleyman Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 Hello everyone. just try yo read my feeling of this post.. I am just a Chinese girl (come from Hong Kong) who want to improve my English for the design course in the comming Sep... my English is bloodybloody terrible in Speaking.. The interviewer loves my works very much but he just told me seriously : you better improve your english... it is a little bit weak for me.. That's why I am here.. And discover this post.. Really WANT TO TELL YOU GUYS! whatever you are proud of being a English. You are the luckiest human in the world.. There is no perfect goverment in the world including Obama. But you are living in a place with artistic culture and living enviroment surrounding.. whatever you feel your place is artiatic or not.. over 100 thousand Chinese student studying in UK and their parent and they are suffering heavy pressure.. for what? and why? for the better future.. and, becasue of our country is unable to provide the best education system for their youngsters ... You should believe that song saying the place you are living is the other paradise.. allow me to say that.. try to forgive the emigrants.. they just want to have a better live.. and try to encourage the oversea student who study hard. Thank you for your reading.. Your posts and this whole Forum are helping me to change that interviewer's mind. So thank you all again. Your English is outstanding. Congratulations. You learnt to speak and write English in your country and it must be a very hard language to learn, so different in every way from Chinese. But think on this. How many western students have mastered Chinese equivalent to to your level of English? Not very many I suspect. As for the interviewers remarks he sounded like a bit of a nitwit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickw Posted January 29, 2011 Share Posted January 29, 2011 It means 'the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics'. Russia was part of that union as the RSFSR, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The soviets had a way with acronyms. Nice one. I sit corrected , I should have googled it before posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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