Ireland vs Great Britain

[Graham]

How would people define what is Englands culture?

Seaside piers, fish & chips & 99 flakes, thatched rural cottages & Cricket, English Breakfast Tea and Cream Tea
Urban inclusive Britishness, a sort of London brand.
White working class living in red bricked terraced towns, football daft, take-aways and bookies.
Obsessed with the Royal Family.
or something else for example the mod & rockers era.

[Tooting Carmen]

How would people define what is Englands culture?

Seaside piers, fish & chips & 99 flakes, thatched rural cottages & Cricket, English Breakfast Tea and Cream Tea
Urban inclusive Britishness, a sort of London brand.
White working class living in red bricked terraced towns, football daft, take-aways and bookies.
Obsessed with the Royal Family.
or something else for example the mod & rockers era.

Major literary figures such as Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer, Austen, Blyton and the Brontes; a unique sense of humour that is more self-deprecatory and ironic than most; a relatively strong emphasis on privacy and individualism (even compared to nearby countries); strong emphasis on politeness over directness; sexual conservatism (at least when compared to e.g. the French); inventor of major world sports like football, rugby and cricket; inventor of television and railways; cups of tea; fish and chips; the pub; stately homes and palaces; church hymns and carols; an unusual love of gardening and pets; an exceptionally big NGO sector.

[Creoda]

How would people define what is Englands culture?

Seaside piers, fish & chips & 99 flakes, thatched rural cottages & Cricket, English Breakfast Tea and Cream Tea
Urban inclusive Britishness, a sort of London brand.
White working class living in red bricked terraced towns, football daft, take-aways and bookies.
Obsessed with the Royal Family.
or something else for example the mod & rockers era.

Major literary figures such as Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer, Austen, Blyton and the Brontes; a unique sense of humour that is more self-deprecatory and ironic than most; a relatively strong emphasis on privacy and individualism (even compared to nearby countries); strong emphasis on politeness over directness; sexual conservatism (at least when compared to e.g. the French); inventor of major world sports like football, rugby and cricket; inventor of television and railways; cups of tea; fish and chips; the pub; stately homes and palaces; an unusual love of gardening and pets; an exceptionally big NGO sector.

Anglicanism
Tudor Houses
Football hooliganism
Landscape gardens
Cucumber and Salmon sandwiches, cut in triangles
Strawberries and clotted cream
Scones
Rice Pudding
Village Greens
Lawn Bowls
Moaning about the weather
red phone boxes, double decker buses, black cabs
Bobbies on the beat
Twinings
Music Hall
Full English Breakfast, Black Pudding
Roast Beef, hot English mustard
Ploughman's Lunch
Stilton/Red Leicester/Cheshire/Cheddar
Steak and Kidney pie, Pork pies
Branston & HP
Morris Dancing
Robin Hood, Sherwood Forest, Oak trees
Ivy covered cottages
Pub culture
Darts, snooker
Birthplace of all the good sports
The Swinging Sixties and the British invasion
Portrait of Elizabeth II on the wall or commemorative Charles & Di plates
Wedgwood china in the cupboard
Sheffield steel in the draw
Constable or Turner on the wall
Pasties, Sausage rolls
Sticky toffee pudding, Apple pie, Trifle, Christmas pudding, Fruit Mince Pies, Custard Tart
Rudyard Kipling
Fish and Chips
Class obsession
Flat caps, Whippets and Brown Ale in the North
Chavs, Burberry
Wellington boots
Fry's Chocolate Cream, Terry's Chocolate Orange
Marmalade on toast
Self-deprecating and dry humour
Politeness, Stiff upper lip. Reservedness.
The Westminster Chimes
Gilbert & Sullivan
Posh schools and their ethos (Goodbye Mr Chips, Tom Brown's school days etc)
Rowing regattas
Endless Victorian terraces
Fox hunting
William Blake, Green and Pleasant fields, Dark satanic mills
Elgar, Vaughan Williams
Last Night of the Proms
Stuffiness
Sportsmanship and fair play
Beefeaters and the Queens Guard
The Industrial Revolution, post-Industrial wastelands
A Christmas Carol
Cider
Greensleeves
Poppies
Brass Bands
Bandstands

Could go on interminably...

[Ayetooey]

England gave up what makes it unique to fight for "British culture". Anyway Britain>Ireland but I like both countries, if I were to live in any other European country over Britain it would be Ireland.

[Varda]

[Mortimer]

Probably I prefer Britain when I have to choose sorry grace o malley but Ireland is close on top too

[Arūnas]

because I have some distant family members from Thatcham to Ayr, I would choose GB

[El_Jibaro]

I like Ireland more.

[Graham]

I'm sure certain people believe that. Obviously I'm pro-English and disagree.

English nationalism is associated by the same people with Little Englanderism, historically the opposite of the imperialist British nationalism. Much of the derisive commentary against pro-Brexit people is along these lines.

The pro-Brexit British Government feels fairly international ironically, you will have to get the magnifying glass to find otherwise. Very BAME, Jewish or born out-with England and the policies have been more left wing than the previous Cameron or May Governments.

[Ayetooey]

The pro-Brexit British Government feels fairly international ironically, you will have to get the magnifying glass to find otherwise. Very BAME, Jewish or born out-with England and the policies have been more left wing than the previous Cameron or May Governments.

Yes this is one of the most left wing governments we've had in a while, there isn't much of a choice for people on the right, its left vs left with tough rhetoric. Broken electoral system.