Losing my Identity

 This is going to be hard to write, but, I really think as English people, we're losing our identity. 

This isn't going to be one of those things were better in the olden days, cos they weren't really. Its about stuff I grew up with, I don't see anymore. Kids playing out, kids having fun, kids finding porn under a hedge, and yeah that last one did happen, there was always a scan mag around, normally in bits.

Normally it's blamed on computer games and vidya in general, which is bollocks, there were a shed load from the mid 80's onward either a home micro or arcade, hell in some places the NES was even popular ,we had a borrowing system set up that ended in tears from about the 1990 onward. 

No its about losing who we are. We used to do a few things as kids that could be seen as typically British. From about the end of September till about October it was Conker season, you'd thread up a bootlace and get someone to skewer the seed of a conker (Horse Chestnut) and thread it on. Then you'd tie it off and find someone else who'd done the same thing and then hit it till the nut shattered.

Later on up until actual bonfire night you'd have fireworks, or rather the world war 2 from early October all through Halloween (which no one gave a fuck about btw) till bonfire night proper. As a side effect of this you'd get a Guy, an old coat with a football or bag for a head and you'd get kids doing penny for the guy.  It's seems to have died out now. That and a thankful crackdown on fireworks.

But the point is we make a bigger deal of Halloween now than Fireworks night. 

We never got a black Monday preferring to wait until Boxing day for our sales, on the day after Xmas. You know Xmas was fucked when you'd see ads for Texas Homebase, partworks and the Harrods Sale.

Finally, its prom. No English kid I knew ever had a prom growing up, now it's a rite of passage.

And that's it, we seem to be getting more American with stuff. Losing our old ways and generally becoming homogenous, and I can't think of anyway to counter act this.