A Sense of Ourselves
Wednesday 13 February 2008 23:00-23:15 (Radio 3)
Four writers and immigrants to Britain give the outsider's perspective on Britishness.
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3/4. Eva Hoffman is a Polish Jew who came to Britain in 1992, having spent most of her adult life in the United States. What she found confounded her prejudices of a stodgy, emotionally closed and uncommunicative culture.
But she also found a society in a state of rapid flux, a culture which seemed unsure of the balance to strike between absorbing outside influence and maintaining traditional values. Eva reflects on how we should handle this crisis of confidence.
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