Originally Posted by
Steven
I go along with Lindylou on this. We are all proud to be Scousers. I was born in Liverpool but brought up in France and Ireland and although I am fluent in French, I think of myself as a Scouser.
I am proud that we have the oldest Chinese settlement in Europe, right here in our city and I rejoice when they celebrate. When the Afro-Caribeans have their carnival, I join right in and I am made welcome. Not as a Frenchman nor an Irishman but as a Sccouser.
I have witnessed some fantastic St. Patrick's day parades on the 17th March in Hawaii, New York, Paris and Lisbon. I really think it would be a great idea to have one here this year.
Maybe Paddy O'Waterways will lead the march, join in and have a bit of a laugh ?
that's exactly it Steven. I love all that our various cultures have to offer. I have had brilliant times at Caribbean carnival, I go to celebrate Chinese new year, I have good and long standing Argentinian friends who I was still in close contact with during the Falklands war (or Las Malvinas) - and I am still in regular contact with. I had a go at learning Spanish because of them
I have had Asian friends and Irish friends. I have foreign neighbours who I get along with great.
I am not well travelled, but I do love Spain. I love Wales and spend as much time as I can there.
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but at the end of it all, I am a Scouser through and through. I never change my allegiance to that fact.
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