Bristolians Answer: What does being British mean to you?

  • 4 days ago
A survey has found national pride in Britain has hit an all-time low. Do you have a strong sense of national pride - why/why not? What sort of things make you proud to be British? What does being British mean to you?
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00:00national pride of Britain has hit an all-time low. Do you have a strong sense of pride for Britain?
00:08Oh god, that's a loaded question, isn't it? I mean, in a lot of ways, yes.
00:20Yeah, I mean, I guess the downswing can be easily traced, well for me, to the sort of far-right
00:28protests, you know, I think, you know, everything swinging to the right as it is, is pretty
00:34depressing and doesn't make me feel very proud. What things make you proud of Britain? Oh, okay,
00:42my uni, so University of Bristol makes me proud. I feel like it's very nice,
00:47to have very, very nice people around here and nice culture. Yeah, I'd like to think that it's
00:54just a loud minority and that, you know, I can retain a sense of pride of the country that I'm from.

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