Dear Mr Hypothetical Fascist:
Why do you feel so vulnerable? I get globalisation, and the constant changes in the job market, and I have to put up with all that, but it doesn’t make me hate other people.
I don’t hate gay people. The fact that gay men exist doesn’t mean that they want to bugger you, personally. You are probably nowhere near their league. And, as for gay women – you might as well be building a base on one of the moons of an as-yet-to-be-discovered exo-planet.
Polish sausage in supermarkets, with the legend in Polish – this sausage is on sale AS WELL AS, not INSTEAD OF other sausage.
I have been to four universities, and I am unemployed. But I am not trying to blame other people. I listen to reggae and ska musik. I cook South Asian food. I converse using French and German quotations. This cultural diversity has not yet secured me another job, but it has still done me a lot of good.
The concepts of Britishness/Englishness/Masculinity/Employment are all being challenged. What else would you expect? I would start by saying that you do not have to be British to be British. You think that sounds like sophistry or gibberish? The person I have in mind in Mayala Yousufzai. She was born in Pakistan, but she is British. And not just because she was treated at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, in Birmingham. “Shot in the head for campaigning for female education? Kept going? British.”
So if you want to demonstrate how British you are, you are going to have to do something more constructive than merely being bright pink and wearing a silly, St George T-shirt.
iamhyperlexic 