OH MY GOD let's get several things straight about Brexit

[haele]

210. Again, the problem is that there is not really an "English Culture" any more than the "US" culture.

English culture is far more regional than is found in Mexico, Australia, or Canada. Even the English language is different between counties; the English spoken in Cornwall is not the same as the English spoken in London or the English spoken in Northumbria. Country culture ranges from district to district, county to county - depending on who invaded when. There is ultimately no "unique culture". There's English/Welsh culture, English/Scots culture, English/Anglo-Saxon culture, English/French culture (i.e., landed gentry/aristocracy), Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western, Fenlands, Maritimes, Industrial, City, Raj...

It's nothing like Mexico, France, Germany - or even Ireland and Scotland. There's never been a strong indigenous population that maintained a foothold; only small local semi-tribal settlements with their own leadership, practices and habits that agree to trade with each other instead of continuing to war with each other. Heck, even within what is understood to be England, there is a unique country with it's own unique culture - Wales.
This is provincialism in practice; it took WWI and a great depression - recent history - for the population of England proper to begin to homogenize and become more of "a culture".

The only thing historic "England" has in common as a culture is that there is a basic common language - that is made up from at least seven different European Languages and two different native tribal languages - a melting-pot history, and the ultimate fact that there's a King/Queen and Parliament that is in charge of law and land.

I've been to Mexico several times - including as part of an anthropology study my mother was involved with back when I was a teen. I've also been to England several times due to work and once a 2 month holiday, and I've studied their history as part of re-enactment, as quite a few of my father's ancestors came from there, as well as most of the colonial settlements in this country.
England's unique culture is that there is no one culture. It's a melting pot of cultures, with many different cultures that have either entwined or segregated themselves over centuries of Imperial rule. Only the foolish BNP and other provincial right wingers there want "English Only" - because they think their little comforting corner of English culture is THE ONLY TRUE English culture.

In reality, the only true "English" are (added in edit) small, dark people who painted themselves blue when they went to war against Roman Legions. But they died out or otherwise disappeared around A.D. 300, along with their language and culture.

Haele