This was a question posed by Dr John Sentamu in a speech he made before his enthronement as Archbishop of York in November 2005. He answered-

“It is a very serious question. The English are somehow embarrassed about some of the good things they have done. Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, ‘Let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains’. A failure to rediscover English culture would fuel greater political extremism.”

You can read the full speech here.

 

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