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The True Born Englishman
i was asked why the employees of the railway were proposing to strike. A fellow passenger had said, in an even voice, oh, yes, england. And i suspected that he was hostile to the idea of a strike. I remembered, perhaps just in time, an experience in london, and held my tongue. The english can seem odd when talking about their english ethenicity. Some of them realize it themselves. Their englishness does not stem from any particular kind of blood. Did defoe's revelations cause a change in emphasis from stock to something more mystical? Perhaps the inner anglian popped up 300 years ago to deal with this complication.
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