Good article, and interesting. I have thought a great deal about what makes us the Nationality we are.

Now there exist stereotypes of which I am sure you are familiar, but what I have noticed is that while people assume that French people are horrible and rude (bearing in mind I live in Paris!) that actually I have come accross what I estimate to be 1 in 10 Parisians who are like that – my view is simple: we are all different as individual, and I agree, are difficult to classify under one identity.

National identity exists, of course it does, otherwise I would cheer New Zealand on at rugby instead of that useless England team. A variety of similar things define National pride or identity – even if you aren't a sports fan, language, culture, history, politics and various other aspects of life can show you what your National Identity is.

The idea that it can be lost is a little misguided too, National Identity is always being improved upon, 1950s Britain is totally different to Noughties Britain due to immigration and socio-political change – but it is still there!

I just think that collecting people under one identity is hard – I call myself English, not even British, unless I have to (on forms and paperwork where English isn't applicable). I certainly don't call myself European – the more broad the identity, the harder it is to classify yourself as one identity.

All that identity seems to do is separate, segregate and divide, rather than collect people under one identity, and that is where the fascists fail – they try to create unity and end up with division.

Finding your blogs v interesting, keep it up!