Culturally I'm probably old-school English. I drink tea, listen to The Archers, support the English football team, like fish and chips, a Sunday roast, and curry. I never complain in restaurants (just never go back). I am acutely aware of social class, and the nuances of our high context culture. I respect a queue, though these days it's remembering my place at the bus stop. I think manners are important. I try to be polite, yet I delight in Malcolm Tucker's expletive laden tirades. In the true English style I never insult anyone, inadvertently. I love the humour that undercuts everything, the tendency towards irony, litotes, satire, the beauty of the language, the monumental breadth and depth of the OED, the eccentricity, the creativity, the taste.
My parents were not English (economic migrants) so, despite having been born into and lived my life inside this wonderful culture, I'm still a little bit of an outsider who is lucky (for the most part) to experience the temperate English values of tolerance, restraint, and fair play.
It's a national trait to complain, to criticize the government, to talk the country down, to be so self-deprecating. There is much that could be better, but there is so much to be positive about. To achieve the MEGA (Make England Great Again) there's no need to put anyone else down. Economics and culture are not zero sum games.