To Be English means not to be English. What a relief. 32 Favourite Choices of the English.
We, the English,
clearly prefer a non-English way of life.
Our favourite hot drink – a cuppa tea (from Sri Lanka/India)
Our second favourite hot drink – a coffee (Africa, Arab nations, South America, Italy)
Favourite alcohol – lager Scandinavia
Favourite short drink – whisky Scotland
Most popular fruit – oranges Mediterranean, India, Brazil
Most popular fruit – bananas. Caribbean
Favourite Restaurant – Indian
Favourite plant-based recreational drug – marijuana. Asia
Favourite Cars – EU/Japan/South Korea
Favourite Mind/Body class – Yoga, India
Favourite Holiday destination – Spain
Favourite long-distance holiday – Thailand
Favourite workers – Polish
Favourite Institution – NHS (National Health Service) staffed by many internationals
Favourite alternative education – Steiner School, Montessori School Germany, Italy
Favourite major football team – owned by billionaires from overseas
Favourite top football manager – from EU or South America
Voted Footballer of the Year (2018) – Mohamed Salah, Egyptian
Voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year (2018) – Geraint Thomas, Tour de France winner. Wales
Favourite Airline – Singapore Airlines
Favourite furniture flat pack – Sweden
Favourite cheap clothes store – Primark, Ireland
Favourite music – rock. Afro-American roots
Favourite self-help technique – Mindfulness, Buddhist Tradition, Thailand.
Most printed book – The Bible
Favourite junk food – McDonalds, USA
Favourite large kitchen appliances – EU, Japan, Korea
Most popular mobile phones – China, South Korea
Most popular TV detective series – Scandinavian
Fastest growing religions – Islam and Buddhism
Favourite complementary medicine – acupuncture, Ayurveda, herbal medicine. homeopathy Asia, Germany
Favourite Films – Hollywood.
FINAL WORD
We can offer Monty Python humour. a precious commodity.
We still carry on singing that great song of that much loved English rock band Queen
‘We are the Champions of the World.’
Oh, wait a minute, beloved lead singer of Queen, Freddie Mercury (Farrokh Bulsara) had Indian parents and was born in Zanzibar.
We, English, have no self-existence. What a relief. We are made up of a composition of internationals.
Despite shadows of economic colonialism over the country, we live through our receptivity to what the rest of the world offers us.
THANK YOU. Diversity is good for us.
Parliament votes on BREXIT today (15 January 2019).
BREXIT?
I think I’ll go and put the kettle on and have a cuppa tea.
That’s what we, the English, do in a crisis.
And this country is in a crisis.