| Author (Person) | Chaplin, Jonathan |
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| Publisher | Economic and Social Research Council |
| Series Title | The UK in a Changing Europe |
| Series Details | 05.05.16 |
| Publication Date | 05/05/2016 |
| Content Type | Journal | Series | Blog |
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The EU referendum debate is reviving troubling questions about British identity: What is it? Who shares it? Can it survive continuing membership of an ever widening and deepening EU, that seems more concerned with bureaucratic uniformity than national diversity? Britons don’t obsess about ‘who we are’ the way the Americans or the French do. But many feel that there must be more to being British than the slender list of four ‘British values’ now officially promoted by the government – democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and tolerance. But the complex question of where British identity actually derives from has been eliciting pointed contributions, from both secular and religious voices. The latter appear divided over whether the faith dimension of British identity is safer in or out of the EU. |
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| Source Link | Link to Main Source http://ukandeu.ac.uk/ |
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| Subject Categories | Values and Beliefs |
| Countries / Regions | United Kingdom |
