{"id":539328,"date":"2026-04-19T11:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539328\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T11:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T11:58:09","slug":"what-does-patriotism-mean-to-different-communities-in-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/539328\/","title":{"rendered":"What does patriotism mean to different communities in the West?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As flags and symbols become more visible across UK streets, and St George&#8217;s Day approaches, the question of what patriotism means has &#8211; for many &#8211; become harder to define. Is it found in community pride, or is it rooted in history?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Warden Hill in Cheltenham, 80-year-old Alex Adlam &#8211; known locally as the &#8220;flag man,&#8221; &#8211; flies four different flags each day, chosen from a collection that spans countries, counties and capitals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is his way of expressing pride in where he lives whilst appreciating the other cultures of the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I fly a flag for every day of each month, I just pick them at random,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Adlam owns about 750 flags, including the Gloucestershire county flag. His interest goes back decades, sparked by a love of geography and history at school. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I do understand how patriotic people are of their flag, I&#8217;ve got all the flags of the world,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As flags and symbols become more visible across UK streets, and St George&#8217;s Day approaches, the question of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-539328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gb","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}