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February 18, 2004
EU "National" Anthem?
An interesting item from Fainting in Coyles by Terrance, flags up the prospect of the Council of Europe imposing a neat little ditty for all us nice "new" Europeans to sing along too.
Oh, what rapture! Now we can all be so cosy and comfortable together.
He has also commented on the debacle of the Radio 4 talk show cut abruptly short the other day, because the guest speaker dared to stray from the PC line that we need to be a police state to prevent us nasty Anglo-Saxon types from going about and beating up everyone in sight who is from an ethnic group or persuasion that we do not approve of.
How true the comment recently from a retired WW2 RAF Fighter Pilot, that had the war gone Hitler's way, the Gestapo would have had no problem finding recruits in the UK. We must be the only country in Europe that slavishly adopts ever comma and fullstop of every Directive, bolts on a complete wishlist of everything else we can think of, and enforces it as strictly as we can.
I will confess that I do not admire a great deal about the French and their attitude to everyone who isn't French, but I begin to think they have a point in the way that they deal with cultures in France, You're either French or you are not. You may be white, black, brown, yellow or skyblue/pink French, or, if you want to be anything else, you're not French. Simple, avoids all sorts of complications and at least everyone knows where they stand. Multicultural? Not in France! Definitely NOT PC.
I guess, that sums up the problem of the Anthem really, they even had to write it in Latin so it would not offend anyone by being any of the current 20+ represented in the EU. How very PC.
Posted by The Gray Monk at February 18, 2004 03:57 PM