Comments on: Transmission Opts for the Full Continental http://www.transmissionhq.org/2007/transmission-opts-for-the-full-continental/ Manchester’s independent literary voice Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:34:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: SPL http://www.transmissionhq.org/2007/transmission-opts-for-the-full-continental/#comment-13 SPL Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:50:39 +0000 http://three.transmissionhq.org/2007/transmission-opts-for-the-full-continental/#comment-13 What you mean is a lot of people do not like the fact that Britain is a part of the EU, not 'Europe' in a conceptual sense. Of course culturally Britain is a part of Europe, like it or lump it (and post-Enlightenment most people like it consciously or otherwise). And yet there has always been a sense since the Reformation in which Britain has regarded the idea of "Europe" i.e. Catholic Europe or as you say 'Continental Europe', as The Other, not just geographically but culturally also, and in which the very term Europe, unless defined against some larger Other, say Africa, is implicitly referring to the rest of the continent. The thematic constraints here plug into that sentiment and as such I don't really think that it needs to be qualified by the word 'Continental'. Plus, I think that if anything the endemic elimination of Britain from Europe by the British points not to Anglophobia (or would Anglo-Celtophobia better push your Caledonian buttons?) but to a somewhat deranged Anglophilia. The implication is that we are different not because we are inferior, but because we are inherently superior. What you mean is a lot of people do not like the fact that Britain is a part of the EU, not ‘Europe’ in a conceptual sense. Of course culturally Britain is a part of Europe, like it or lump it (and post-Enlightenment most people like it consciously or otherwise). And yet there has always been a sense since the Reformation in which Britain has regarded the idea of “Europe” i.e. Catholic Europe or as you say ‘Continental Europe’, as The Other, not just geographically but culturally also, and in which the very term Europe, unless defined against some larger Other, say Africa, is implicitly referring to the rest of the continent. The thematic constraints here plug into that sentiment and as such I don’t really think that it needs to be qualified by the word ‘Continental’.

Plus, I think that if anything the endemic elimination of Britain from Europe by the British points not to Anglophobia (or would Anglo-Celtophobia better push your Caledonian buttons?) but to a somewhat deranged Anglophilia. The implication is that we are different not because we are inferior, but because we are inherently superior.

]]> By: Jim Murdoch http://www.transmissionhq.org/2007/transmission-opts-for-the-full-continental/#comment-12 Jim Murdoch Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:11:16 +0000 http://three.transmissionhq.org/2007/transmission-opts-for-the-full-continental/#comment-12 Since, like it or lump it, Britain is a part of Europe (and a lot of us don't actually like it that much) it might be better if you modified your theme to 'Continental Europe' since this excludes all the islands including Britain and doesn't make you look like anglophobes. I'm Scottish. We're pretty much all anglophobes anyway. Since, like it or lump it, Britain is a part of Europe (and a lot of us don’t actually like it that much) it might be better if you modified your theme to ‘Continental Europe’ since this excludes all the islands including Britain and doesn’t make you look like anglophobes. I’m Scottish. We’re pretty much all anglophobes anyway.

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