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Originally Posted by Little Englander (sour)
It could consistently not rain.
The extremes of most activities result in misery.
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And consistency can also then result in misery.
My main point, though, is merely a question: what does it matter if you are English or Scottish or Welsh or Irish or even British? What does it matter if you are British or French or German or American or Chinese or Russian or Egyptian or Saudi Arabian or Indian or Taiwanese or Australian or any one of the various nationalities in the world?
All peoples are made up of individuals, each one of whom is different; thus the English consist of rapists and murderers and yet they also consist of poets and of Good Samaritans; of evil and yet of good.
This is the case with all peoples and cultures, and ultimately it comes down to the fact that we are all individuals of the human race. Our country of birth dictates not our moral strength, nor our worthiness each as a human being; instead, it merely affects our success and security in the world, and even then only by random chance are you born into such a privileged nation as any of the four in the UK rather than somewhere like Zimbabwe.
There is little logic, then, in taking pride in your country or of quibbling over whether you are English or British. Be grateful that you are born somewhere so relatively well-off, a place which offers you so many opportunities to flourish, but take pride in your humanity rather than your country.