UK "culture"

[Joseph K]

New Complexity.

[Dave2002]

New Complexity.

Thanks for that. Why the need for the **** above? Doesn't look offensive at all.

Actually even now I had to look it up - thought it might be an offensive Rock or Punk band I'd not heard of, but no ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Complexity

[french frank]

In all seriousness, I find it hard to identify "UK culture", since the UK itself consists of England, Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland. Having worked in Scotland for many years, I remember my initial reaction, writing home that: 'Scotland really is a different country.' Is UK culture a sort of amalgam of the four home countries? In which case, at what point does the amalgamation process stop and become something else?

[subcontrabass]

....The culture I was raised in as I saw it then

....Uncle Bob on Saturdays (or was it Uncle Sandy) Childrens Favourites

Uncle Mac: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_McCulloch

[french frank]

All-day breakfast.

[Beef Oven!]

Council estates

[Beef Oven!]

Tower Bridge

[Beef Oven!]

Carry On films

[jayne lee wilson]

I’m not looking at any more of this thread - it’s more depressing than January!

Absolutely.....

I think I love some aspects of European Culture very much - wine, music, cinema, literature, the traditionally centrist postwar politics that are now threatened - but I don't know what to say about "UK Culture..." I'm not sure it has a very distinctive identity, at least not now - and that diffuseness is probably the best thing about it...

[vinteuil]

Council estates

... uniquely British? I think I've experienced such elsewhere in Europe and beyond.


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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Thanks for that. Why the need for the **** above? Doesn't look offensive at all.

It's a dirty word in some circles.

[gradus]

The look of the countryside thanks to the work of countless agricultural workers since the year dot
Courtesy
Fair play
Kenneth Grahame
A A Milne
JM Barrie
A Conan Doyle
Beatrix Potter
Henry V111
Elgar
Dylan Thomas
Walter Scott
RL Stevenson
IK Brunel
Shakespeare
Parliament
Common Law
etc

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

In all seriousness, I find it hard to identify "UK culture", since the UK itself consists of England, Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland. Having worked in Scotland for many years, I remember my initial reaction, writing home that: 'Scotland really is a different country.' Is UK culture a sort of amalgam of the four home countries? In which case, at what point does the amalgamation process stop and become something else?

I understood the OP to mean "cultural activities and achievements from anywhere in the UK", rather than suggesting that there was such a single thing as a "UK culture".

With that in mind, I should probably add

Edinburgh.

(It's just lovely - all of it.)

[french frank]

I understood the OP to mean "cultural activities and achievements from anywhere in the UK"

Ah, that makes sense. But I still can't think of anything It still has two strands, then: what's going on these days, culturally, and past achievements.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It still has two strands, then: what's going on these days, culturally, and past achievements.

Indeed - again, as the OP referred to a particular "discussion" elsethread, my own lists so far have mainly focussed on what current(-ish) cultural "activities and achievements" give me most pleasure and feeling of "belonging".