The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire, ' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose sugar flowed through English blood , and rotted English teeth.

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The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose sugar flowed through English blood , and rotted English teeth.' In other words, the concept of the “Empire-state” is a kind of historical myth, a myth which is presented as being true. It is a myth which has been constructed by the elites – the ruling classes – intelligentsia – intellectuals – and by those who have sought to conceal their own class interests. To say that the aristocracy have sought to preserve their own status and privilege at the expense of those from other classes is not to suggest that they are always successful. Indeed many sought to preserve their privileges but created a system where those from other classes could rise as well.

This idea of Great Britain’s greatness is not self evident as it has been constructed as part of a political ideology which sought to disguise the interests of those who sought to keep down those from other classes. It was a way of keeping down those who sought to make themselves equal to those who sought to keep them down. The idea of Empire was a means by which those who should have been kept down were kept down and those who sought to make themselves equal were made equal.

Source: Six Stories And An Essay

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