Here's an interesting exert from a book I'm reading at the moment...
"English culture has for so long been the dominant, even predator, culture in the neighbourhood that it has never needed to bolster national pride by drawing on traditional roots, and , because it has never needed it, the notion took hold that England had no valuable traditional culture; hence the almost total absence of academic support for the collection and study of folklore or cultural traditions in England."
"Yet paradoxically, the result is not all bad. While English folklore has definitely been neglected, ignor