article_snippet.sent: Party said Party wanted to encourage more people to fly the St George's flag and end a 'cultural self-loathing' about being proud to be English.
article_snippet.sent: Peter Whittle, Party's culture and communities spokesman said: 'For too long we have lived with a political and cultural establishment which has shown a sort of disdain for England which has doubted Britain has a whole and has discouraged pride in a whole.
article_snippet.sent: Their embarrassment about our past, Their lack of concern about our history has permeated our culture. '
article_snippet.sent: Now many young people know little about the country in which many young people live.
article_snippet.sent: The patriotism of the many is often sneered at.
article_snippet.sent: our have a society that appears to live in a state of culture cringe.
article_snippet.sent: People have been encouraged to believe that national pride is exclusive, is dangerous, is bigoted and should therefore be discouraged.'
article_snippet.sent: He added: 'There is a sense somehow when it comes to a perfectly ordinary benign patriotism many people do feel that many people are slightly concerned that if many people say many people are proud many people are immediately going to be cast as racist, or bigoted or whatever.
article_snippet.sent: He said there was a 'snobbery about showing your pride in your country, that it is a vulgar thing'.