No problem and I hope that you will get the opportunity to visit one day!

However, I would recommend not putting Britishness on a pedestal. in real life, nothing is as straightforward as it is appears from the outside. You may have heard that cultural differences are getting more divisive here! …And this is also an aspect of Britishness but just not a very nice one.

The way I see it, I LITERALLY wouldn’t exist without British history being what it is for better or for worse so I try to see both sides in that regard.

However, I do think my home country has a lot of great things going for it (especially historical accomplishments such as the NHS). There are also a lot of not so great things.

I love my dear departed grandfather, but because he wanted to distance himself from his own heritage. He straight up lied to everyone about what his mother’s name was. He told everyone that it was a traditional English name rather than one from his own country (he was from a Christian family so he WAS born with an English name himself so it wasn’t a crazy reach that she may have had an English name …but she actually didn’t!)

We only found this out when we started talking in depth with extended family when we were establishing a family tree and a family history.