Topic > Great Britain - 2061

Since its creation in 1707, the United Kingdom of Great Britain has been a powerful union of many different nations and identities, including English, Scottish, Welsh, and later Irish. From the Middle Ages until the Second World War this union had not only strengthened its domestic political power, but had also expanded its dominion throughout the world, giving rise to the largest and most powerful empire in the world, the British Empire. This great achievement of the union was mainly due to the remarkable sense of unity of its peoples who considered themselves primarily British and secondarily Scots, Welsh or Irish. By the end of World War II, however, the stability of the domestic government also threatened to collapse as many of the Empire's foreign colonies gained independence. The Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish began to demand more and more political independence from Westminster and finally gained their own national parliaments at the end of the 20th century. After this process of devolution, the English began to question their identity and what distinguished them from the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish. But is there a national identity in England and, if so, can this national identity be mobilized politically in the near future? When investigating English national identity and its possible future political mobilization, it is crucial to analyze its meaning and history in the first part. Bechhofer and McCrone (2009) explain national identity as a political, sociological, cultural and psychological construct that is strongly influenced by media, political changes within a state and its institutions. National identity, therefore, is closely linked to notions such as nation, nationality and birth...... at the center of the map ...... necessary in the eyes of English voters who vote mainly on other more important issues and debates important. In partial contradiction to Copus, Kumar (2001) explains that a future English nationalism cannot be ruled out and is entirely possible, but no one can now say how this will be reflected in the future. To put it simply, in my opinion an English identity political mobilization in the foreseeable future is not at all likely as the English people clearly do not need an English Parliament. Not only because of the multicultural aspect of today's society, but also because of its imperialist past, English identity has become multifaceted and interpreted in many ways, which makes the evolution of English nationalism much more difficult than in Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Therefore, a united mobilization in the near future is not conceivable.