However, a more subtle cost has been one that the British have paid: a decreased feeling of contentment with their place in the world. Similar to how Germany and Italy “felt they had been cut a bad deal” (Chehabi) following World War I, England saw its decline as an empire and the end of the age of Super-Powers as a slight to their history, one which had always been a source of pride and patriotism. Thus, much of the England’s post World War II history has been defined by its need to establish itself as an individual nation, a lone wolf in a world where nations are increasingly banding together, driven by the ideology of Conservative Nationalism. A great deal of the resentment felt by the British can be summarised through the understanding of the phrase “English, not European.” The complex and long history of England and its place as one of the dominant powers of the west lend to the nation a deep rooted, unshakable pride, one that is distinctly it 's own and, in their minds, does not
However, a more subtle cost has been one that the British have paid: a decreased feeling of contentment with their place in the world. Similar to how Germany and Italy “felt they had been cut a bad deal” (Chehabi) following World War I, England saw its decline as an empire and the end of the age of Super-Powers as a slight to their history, one which had always been a source of pride and patriotism. Thus, much of the England’s post World War II history has been defined by its need to establish itself as an individual nation, a lone wolf in a world where nations are increasingly banding together, driven by the ideology of Conservative Nationalism. A great deal of the resentment felt by the British can be summarised through the understanding of the phrase “English, not European.” The complex and long history of England and its place as one of the dominant powers of the west lend to the nation a deep rooted, unshakable pride, one that is distinctly it 's own and, in their minds, does not