Given the other thread in which everyone pretty much didnt see the point in any sort of heritage, certainly felt no pride in the matter, and questioned the need of any kind of ancestoral memory does this effect the question of "roots"?
It was once a matter of course that people had a very strong sense of being rooted in people and place, I've read accounts by Americans which suggested this was an intrinsic part of English life between the wars and earlier, while the English seem to think that the Scots and Irish where much more exemplars of this sort of thing.
The condition or social fact of being rooted in place or possessing roots to me is a mixed one, it could translate into very narrow, as opposed to broad, horizons, in intellect or heart, giving rise to the sorts of serious tribalism and violence I've witnessed here in my native northern ireland, when literally your street means everything to you and is little understood or sympathised with by "outsiders" is easy to see why or how people so easily escalate to violence when they think it is being threatened.
On the other hand there are many examples of how roots have been important within individual and group identity and that itself has proven important to many dealing with challenges and trials in life, which was sometimes nasty, brutish and short.
It was once a matter of course that people had a very strong sense of being rooted in people and place, I've read accounts by Americans which suggested this was an intrinsic part of English life between the wars and earlier, while the English seem to think that the Scots and Irish where much more exemplars of this sort of thing.
The condition or social fact of being rooted in place or possessing roots to me is a mixed one, it could translate into very narrow, as opposed to broad, horizons, in intellect or heart, giving rise to the sorts of serious tribalism and violence I've witnessed here in my native northern ireland, when literally your street means everything to you and is little understood or sympathised with by "outsiders" is easy to see why or how people so easily escalate to violence when they think it is being threatened.
On the other hand there are many examples of how roots have been important within individual and group identity and that itself has proven important to many dealing with challenges and trials in life, which was sometimes nasty, brutish and short.