Great Britain is not an Island

[Furunculus]

Alrighty, let's have a look at that "UK is a cultural island"-thingy:

- Language. How many different ones do you find in the english language?

- Music. How much british music is played in mainland europe? How many of the great continental composers(Mozart, Beethoven, etc) have influenced the musical scene in the UK? How much has music from the UK influenced the rest of europe?

- Architecture. Does the UK reject continental ideas in this area, and does the continent reject british ideas?

- Theatre. Same questions as for music.

etc, etc...

Answer these questions, and I can't see how you can come to any conclusion other than Britain being an integral part of Europe, as much as France, Spain, Germany or Italy.

No. One. Has. Denied. That.

Yesterday it was stated that half of Britons have a foreign ancestry, any my family is French Huegenout in origin, but that is irrelevant.

What matters is the British perception of itself and its place in the world, which leads us to believe that we do not need the EU* whereas many continental countries come to the opposite opinion, both for rational and understandable reasons.

We are european, but we have no desire to become EUropean.



* By which i mean federated future alluded to by the phrase; "ever deeper union".