And for the hardcore fans, heavy metal is more than just a scene -- it's part of the national identity.
In 2006, it scrapped plans for a single multi-billion pound system for the national identity register, with the information to be held on three existing, separate databases instead.
Turn to the national identity findings and you find that in Belfast in 2011 35.07% thought of themselves as British only, ahead of 31.08% who described themselves as Irish, whilst a substantial 18.73% of Belfast citizens thought of themselves as Northern Irish.
The FA of Wales says its position is closer to that of Scotland, who fear a British team could lose the "national identity" of the home nations.
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This rich treasury lies at the heart of Iranian music and reflects the cultural and national identity of the Iranian people.
But the link between national identity and the post office dies hard.
Its core argument is that existing laws and procedures already provide perfectly adequate protection and render the national-identity numbers innocuous.
India's future still turns on the question of national identity the problem that the agonies of partition failed to resolve, and in many ways served to aggravate.
With such a track record, Juki Net's opponents wonder, what is to prevent the government itself, or single-minded bureaucrats within it, from later using the national-identity numbers to compile alternate databases, with information on citizens' health records, pension benefits, or religious and political affiliations?
With economics removed from the realm of political decision-making, all that is left for politicians is the politics of national identity, which threatens to undermine the union, Mr. Krastev argues.
If we can improve our systems, we may be able to reap many of the benefits of having a national identity card without the burden or cost of actually having to implement one.
No, if someone wanted to use the photographs of Yoav's and Elad's mangled corpses and clenched little fists as inspiration to write a play or feature film about the fact that the Palestinians have no national identity outside their quest to annihilate the Jewish state, he would find no mass market.
Out of this miscellany emerges a larger story about the evolution of a British national identity, independent of the papacy, with its own history and imperial ambitions.
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Centuries of foreign rule (first Swedes, then Russians) further entrenched education as the centrepiece of national identity.
Then you've got people tying illegal immigrants to terrorist threats, to healthcare threats, avian flu and all the like, threats to racial balance of the country, national identity.
The most important post-conflict step towards the further development of a common national identity would be the instigation of a constitution-drafting process that involved all Iraq's different communities.
In the Keynesian national-income identity, G represents government spending, not the budget surplus.
The simple reason is that national identity really is made up of the shared experiences, likes and dislikes, and attitudes that bind together people who live in a particular place at a particular time.
At first a major component of regional popular culture among Brazilians of African descent, the Samba de Roda was eventually taken by migrants to Rio de Janeiro, where it influenced the evolution of the urban samba that became a symbol of Brazilian national identity in the twentieth century.
During the past few weeks, the leading candidates have often played to the viscera with messages about immigration, national identity, and the evils of the international financial markets.
The unique identity number aims to equip people with one unimpeachable, portable national identity aimed at helping the poor to access state welfare, open bank accounts and protect them from rampant police harassment.
The next stage in the journey to create a new national identity will include plans to see the demise of shortbread and haggis.
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Many citizens complain that the policy would dilute national identity and hurt standards of living.
This is typical, says James Barrett, lead clinician at the Charing Cross National Gender Identity Clinic.
In the 1960s the suppression of Albanian national identity in Kosovo gave way to a more tolerant line from Belgrade.
This was the first time a national identity question had been asked.
Many concern presidential speeches, which he wrote himself, hated giving but considered vital for creating the right sense of national identity for a new republic.
He did that by suggesting he would cut "unnecessary and wasteful" defence spending, abolish the children's trust fund and plans for national identity cards, and put the money instead into front-line services.
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In recent years, with the royal family enjoying a resurgence in popularity, the Queen has once again become a symbol of a shared national identity -- and the opportunity for a sitting at Buckingham Palace remains a tantalizing one for contemporary artists.
"Without intending to, Merz provoked a kind of phantom pain: he reminded the Germans, caught between love of homeland and yearning for Europe, of their amputated leg: national identity, " the paper says.
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