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This England... which England?; English reserve seems to have led to a national identity crisis A SURVEY last week revealed that more schoolchildren knew the date of American Independence Day than that of St George's Day. So are we in danger of losing

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From: Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
Date: 20000709
Author:Bassey, Amardeep

THE novelist George Orwell once said the English 'are not gifted artistically'.

But, he added, 'they make up for it by having fortitude, loyalty and no real nationalist or racial hatred for others.'

Sixty years on some may argue that it is this latter, very English, trait of tolerance and reserve that has led to its inhabitants' identity crisis.

By trying to tread the thin line between xenophobia and ...

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