Out of touch with culture?

I get what you mean, I think it's something that happens when you get older, it also bothered me when I started mixing more with people from different backgrounds to mine, that they knew so much more, they were taught things that my school and friends and family wouldn't thought about, and if they did would of thought of as snobby. Things like art, politics, literature, theatre' listening to radio 4 rather than radio1, even trips to museums. I did do a dive into most of it, found what I like and what I don't. Pop culture has always been a bit of a mystery to me, I didn't like most pop music when I was growing up and still don't.

I don't know your cultural background or heritage, but one of the things I've noticed is for the English is how embarassed we are about our folk culture, how it's looked down on and denigrated. It's like our past started with the Industrial revolution at the earliest and maybe WW 1 and 2. It's something I've talked about with friends from other countries and they find it odd that we celebrate our folk culture so little, a Spanish friend told me that even though she comes from the north of Spain and flamenco from the south, they're all incredibly proud of it and if a flamenco track is played at a disco or club, eveyone will start dancing, stamping thier feet and clicking their fingers. A German friend told me the same about Oompah music, obviously the Scots and Irish are incredibly proud of thier cultural heritage, even the Welsh after 800 years of suppression are.

Its like if you're English the only cultural heritage you're allowed to have is that of Empire, which oppressed the ordinary English person almost or just as much as the Scots and Irish and others.

I get what you mean, I think it's something that happens when you get older, it also bothered me when I started mixing more with people from different backgrounds to mine, that they knew so much more, they were taught things that my school and friends and family wouldn't thought about, and if they did would of thought of as snobby. Things like art, politics, literature, theatre' listening to radio 4 rather than radio1, even trips to museums. I did do a dive into most of it, found what I like and what I don't. Pop culture has always been a bit of a mystery to me, I didn't like most pop music when I was growing up and still don't.

I don't know your cultural background or heritage, but one of the things I've noticed is for the English is how embarassed we are about our folk culture, how it's looked down on and denigrated. It's like our past started with the Industrial revolution at the earliest and maybe WW 1 and 2. It's something I've talked about with friends from other countries and they find it odd that we celebrate our folk culture so little, a Spanish friend told me that even though she comes from the north of Spain and flamenco from the south, they're all incredibly proud of it and if a flamenco track is played at a disco or club, eveyone will start dancing, stamping thier feet and clicking their fingers. A German friend told me the same about Oompah music, obviously the Scots and Irish are incredibly proud of thier cultural heritage, even the Welsh after 800 years of suppression are.

Its like if you're English the only cultural heritage you're allowed to have is that of Empire, which oppressed the ordinary English person almost or just as much as the Scots and Irish and others.

TheCatWoman said:

obviously the Scots and Irish are incredibly proud of thier cultural heritage, even the Welsh after 800 years of suppression are.

Do you identify as Scottish or Welsh? I know you were born in Scotland and have obviously moved and eventually settled on a Welsh island but wondered where you felt you mostly "belonged" to.

I was born and raised in Scotland, lived most of my adult life in England with spells in Germany and Brazil but always feel Scottish as an identity but have moulded myself to fit in with wherever I live.