How to be a patriot : why love of country can end our very British culture war
Katwala, Sunder2024
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Sunder Katwala grew up with some identity questions to work through. As a half-Indian, Irish Catholic kid, the chequered history of post-imperial Britain seemed very personal. Yet he came to realise that, with that background, he could hardly be anything but proudly British. And feeling British was getting much easier once the banana-throwing racists on the football terraces and Norman Tebbit's divisive cricket test gave way to a softer patriotism as the spirit of the Britpop era carried through to Danny Boyle's Olympic opening ceremony. Having put his own search for an inclusive patriotism back on track, Sunder wondered why so many other English liberals seemed unable to get over their fear of flags. This book moves from a personal journey to navigate the state of the nation, and the many identity crises of this increasingly disunited Kingdom.
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Author:
Katwala, Sunder, author
Imprint:
Manchester : HarperNorth, 2024.
Collation:
224 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2023.
ISBN:
9780008553890 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
941.086
Language:
English
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BRN:
2690293
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