The United English-speaking States of the World 2

Suppose a girl born in Vancouver Canada with parents immigrants from China reads James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. Can she claim as an English-speaking person that this great novel written by an Irishman is her native literature? It seems to me she can  because as English-speaking by birth she has the same cultural identity as for example an English-speaking Australian whose great grandparents were both English. Whatever identity we have as English-speakers it is a solid identity. We need to do something to assert its reality. We are already citizens of one English-speaking state out  of 70 and we need to see that the political unity of the 70 is crucial to our cultural, political and economic well being in a new globalized world. Some of the best minds in the UK are advising the young in Britain to emigrate because the solid British identity of the past is gone crushed by globalism and excessive immigration. The Prime Minister of Canada, Trudeau, has said that a Canadian no longer has a national identity. Well, the children of immigrants to Canada and Britain and to all the other English -speaking states do have a solid cultural identity. We as well as they all speak English as our native language, the language of great writers and thinkers from the four countries of the UK as well as from the United States, Canada and everywhere else that people learn English natively. Just a few years ago I taught in an urban high school where the majority of my students were not white Americans and had all possible skin colors. They had an identity already that had nothing to do with national identity except that being born in one of the 50 English-speaking states of America made them English speakers. They could already communicate with one another as easily as can all English-speaking persons. English speaking has nothing to do with Chauvinism. It opens people to one another in a way that nothing they may ever experience  can ever change. They know who they are when they talk in the same language to others of any race from any country who also discover who they are by receiving an identity by speaking English natively.

Daniel McNeill usoftheworld.com

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The United English-speaking States of the World 1

England united by military force Britain and Ireland and with a secure  base at home proceeded to conquer and rule one quarter of the globe. The sovereignty of England was the fatal flaw that ruined the continuation of the British Empire. England, the state of England, has not been a separate national state for over 400 years, but the sovereignty of England, of the English element in Britain, has been a power fiercely guarded by the English down to our time. The King or Queen are sovereign. They are the power behind Parliament. The power behind the royal sovereign has always been the English. The royalty combined with the English  equals the sovereignty of the English element in Britain over Britain. The British Empire was lost for a variety of reasons but the main reason was that sovereignty could not be transferred to its many conquered dominions. It remained always in London as though permanently closed and guarded in a castle completely isolated from the rest of the world’

   But one thing does remain from the British Empire: 70 English-speaking states scattered geographically from the north of Scotland to the south of Australia. The amazing thing about them is that none of them are completely sovereign. The 10 provinces of Canada are under the sovereign power of a parliament in Ottawa itself under a representative of the queen. The 50 states of America have constitutionally limited sovereignty as does the government in Washington. The governments of New Zealand and the 6 states of Australia are under the sovereignty of the crown in Britain. The three states of Britain, England, Wales and Scotland, are not fully sovereign because they are also under a parliament exercising the sovereignty of the crown.The Republic of Ireland appears to be the only English-speaking state fully sovereign although it is subject to the European Union government in Brussels.

   We are now in a postnational period of history. If nationalism no longer works and the 70 English-speaking states are not fully sovereign nations because they were all once parts of the British Empire, why should they not be politically unified in a great global union of states all speaking the same language and all with common political and legal customs? One principle of such a union would be that they be united again by a central government, as they  once were during the British Empire. The other principle would be that they yield to a central government a few of their sovereign powers which they once yielded completely during the British Empire which kept total sovereignty for itself locked up tight in London.

Daniel McNeill usoftheworld.com

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