England should make an effort to celebrate St George's day

He is quintessentially English *because* he wasn't. He was from Turkey. Now in its way that's typically English, always looking outwards, always open, always embracing the different and the new. England is a hotchpotch of cultures and always has been anyway from Normans, Saxons and Romans to the mingling with Celtic blood. George is still a valid symbol of England and to dismiss him as such because of his ancestry would be going against our proud culture of acceptance and heterogeneity. heterogeneity.  
 
Also, very few countries have a patron saint who was born there. St David of Wales is an exception, but think about St Andrew of Scotland, St Patrick of Ireland (who was born in Wales), St Mark of Venice, et cetera.

To celebrate a national holiday based upon the mythical activities of a saint who wasn't even of that nation seems absurd. England should stop this charade immediately and find other ways to voice our national pride. It should follow the lead of (relatively) newer nations such as Australia and just have an England Day, if necessary, but to clebrate the actions of a long dead non-english national and take credit for them as our own is nonsensical.