Being a patriot means accepting that our nation is multicultural

I am honoured to live in a great nation.  It can, and should be better than it is, and while, like all nations, it has unsavoury aspects of its past, it has many things to be proud of.

And anyone who is proud of our nation has to accept that it is a multicultural nation and has been for a very long time.

Some may not like to hear that, but the first example I am going to cite here is the Royal Family. Ignoring the German ancestry of the Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (now the House of Windsor), our queen is married to a man often called Phil The Greek, Prince Philip having been born in Corfu into the Greek and Danish Royal families. And of course, there is the recent marriage of Meghan to Harry.  

One reason that I bring this up, is because some of the Far Right have doubted the right of some of our sportsmen (and women) to be part of out nation, notably a past comment by Nick Griffin about Ashley Cole.  Being an Arsenal fan, I am still bitter about the way the adulterer left our club, but he is British, and if you look at many teams that represent our country our multicultural heritage is reflected here as well. 

For those who claim that our nation has not been multicultural for ages, please remember the different languages spoken in our great nation.

Traveling around our nation and learning its history, you will find that the culture of East Anglia has many differences to that around Birmingham or in Manchester but just as we have differences within our nation, we have many things that bind us together.

And last of all, remember that the Patron Saint of England was born in the Middle East.