How many of us have really enjoyed the proms every year and especially the last night a great chance to make merry?
This year it will be without an audience and now people are up in arms blaming alternatively the BBC or the composer from Finland for supposedly doing away with Land of Hope and Glory and Rule Britannia. The lyrics are deemed to be offensive because of the reference to Britain's jingoistic empire building days.
Having been House Captain at school of the Britons and having as our anthem Rule Britannia, which we played on our recorders, like many I was baffled. However, seeing all the racists and Brexiteers coming out of the woodwork frothing at the mouth, there is a little schadenfreude in witnessing the angst.
It is all very silly, of course.
Daily Mail
This year it will be without an audience and now people are up in arms blaming alternatively the BBC or the composer from Finland for supposedly doing away with Land of Hope and Glory and Rule Britannia. The lyrics are deemed to be offensive because of the reference to Britain's jingoistic empire building days.
Having been House Captain at school of the Britons and having as our anthem Rule Britannia, which we played on our recorders, like many I was baffled. However, seeing all the racists and Brexiteers coming out of the woodwork frothing at the mouth, there is a little schadenfreude in witnessing the angst.
It is all very silly, of course.
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Is Rule Britannia really so offensive compared to the lyrics of other countries' hymns? Judge for yourself... France: La Marseillaise 'They're coming right into your arms, to cut the throats of your sons, your comrades! Let's march, let's march, that their impure blood should water our fields.' Ireland: The Soldier's Song 'Some have come from a land beyond the wave, sworn to be free, no more our ancient sireland shall shelter the despot or the slave.' US: The Star-Spangled Banner The US anthem celebrates 'bombs bursting in the air' as they 'gave proof through the night that our flag was still there'. It then celebrates the spilling of 'their blood'… for 'conquer we must'. Italy: The Song of Italians 'The Austrian eagle has lost his plumes. This eagle that drunk the blood of Italy and Poland, together with the Cossack.' Hungary: National Anthem Remembering the Ottoman Empire as a 'barbarian nation', Hungary's anthem still includes the following suspect line about the suffering it endured at the hands of a nearby neighbour: 'the Turks' slave yoke we took upon our shoulders'. Portugal: A Portuguesa 'To march against the enemy guns! … To arms, to arms, on land and sea!' Mexico: National Anthem 'War, war without truce against who would attempt to blemish the honour of the fatherland!' ... The patriotic banners saturate in waves of blood.' |
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