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Mardy Experienced

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Im going to bring the Largest Northern Ireland flag I can get my hands on and stand right in front of the pyramid stage all day. We had it in 2007 for Kasabian and was a great thrill when about 600 people behind us lost view of the stage. LOL
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As a French(Moroccan, or so Ive recently been told!)-Irish-Australian living in England, I really don't get the hoopla about nationality. In fact Ive come to hate it, if the truth be told. If you want to see just how little we've changed since the Roman Empire, patriotism is your answer.

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As a French(Moroccan, or so Ive recently been told!)-Irish-Australian living in England, I really don't get the hoopla about nationality. In fact Ive come to hate it, if the truth be told. If you want to see just how little we've changed since the Roman Empire, patriotism is your answer.
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You see, that's the bit I don't get. 'Proud of your identity'. What does that mean? I'm really not being obtuse, I just don't get it. It's a really odd concept to me. Proud of where you're from? Why? it's just an accident of geography that you were born there.

I'm not being fighty, wave whatever flags you like, but I don't understand it. And generally, talk of identity, pride and nationalism makes me very very nervous.

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There are lots of things that add to an individuals' identity, nationality being just one of them. I am proud of my heritage, my political standing, my religious beliefs, the fact that I'm an argumentative little gobshite at times. I'm personally proud of where I am from, but I am the furthest away from being nationalist as is possible, I believe. (I am a Brummie with Irish parents')
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PADDYWHACKERY.

It's people like you that have held us back. Celebrating your Irishness. For what? What are you proud of exactly? Why do you want people at a festival in your own country to think youre Irish?

When I go to Glasto I'd like it if my accent was all someone needs to know I'm Irish. The tricolor also has political overtones that makes some people feel uncomfortable (me included). Its ignorant and classless.

I was born in Ireland and feel confident enough in my nationality to not broadcast it to the world. Flags are part of Glasto - I love them - but the overexposure and misplaced use of the tricolor gets my goat bigtime.

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