To not really like or approve of St George's Day?

[BlueDressingGown]

I don't like it and I don't really want my children to participate in our village parade.

I don't really give a monkeys about 'patron saints' and am not of the faith that initially made him a saint. I don't believe in saints. I don't think people should be sainted. He was nothing to do with England and never came to England. (I'm also not English, by the way, but now living in England, but that's not why I don't like him!)

I also feel that this day gets seized on by English nationalists and used to stir up racist feelings regarding people who 'aren't really English'.

We celebrated at my school by encouraging the children to come in dressed as St George, the dragon or the princess. Nobody was injured or hurt by it, it was simply another part of their learning (we looked at the history of the story, where it came from, wether it might possibly have any truth in it, all valuable lessons for young children to learn regardless of religious or political leanings). I simply can't see why you'd take offence at it.

On St Patricks day we had a similar celebration, nobody got upset over that, either.