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Московский государственный университет им. М.В.Ломоносова
READER
IN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
FOR JUNIOR STUDENTS OF THE HUMANITIES
Part II.
МОСКВА
2007
England
Nationalism and Identity
Forewarned
The attitude of the English towards other nations is not so much xenophobia (fear of foreigners) as xenopili (pity for foreigners for having the misfortune to be, well, NOT English). As Cecil Rhodes once observed, To be born English is to win first prize in the lottery of life. It is hardly surprising, then, that the English should feel a bit sorry for all the runners-up.
The last invasion of England was perpetrated 900 years ago by the Normans. They settled, they worked hard, they tried to integrate and fit in, they tried to share their wisdom and experience with the locals. They failed. The English did what they do best. They ignored the funny cooking smells, the unfamiliar clothes and peculiar accents and set about the long, slow, arduous task of turning the invaders into Englishmen.
It took centuries of course, but it worked. Norman is no longer a name redolent of invasion and locking up ones daughters: it is a quintessential English first name.
The Venetian Ambassador, Andrea Travisana, visiting London in 1497 made the following observation about the English: They do not believe that there are any other people than themselves, or any other world than England; and whenever they see some handsome foreigner, they say, He looks like an Englishman, or, What a pity he is not English.
The English today are not as unanimous in this view as they once were, some regarding England as a place to escape from at every opportunity, but the majority remain innately mistrustful of abroad - dodgy food, dodgy water, dodgy plumbing, and, worst of all, dodgy foreigners.
This is what you are up against. It is useless to imagine that you can succeed where so many have failed. But since it is the proudest boast of the English that they cannot begin to understand foreigners, it would be gratifying
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