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Reply #29 - December 20, 2017, 10:51 AM
Which is interesting as so many others have. I mean, if you're in Japan and you're not native Japanese, to this day they have signs outside some buildings saying you're not allowed in,
Britain seems to be a society more focused on culture than ethnicsism or race. Not quite as bad as France, where they expect complete assimilation rather than integration, and get pissed at you if you don't call your French born child a French name rather than whatever name you want,
The interesting thing is that lately the gov and the BBC have been trying to convince us we've always been a country of immigrants, which is flatly not true. I don't even understand why this recently created myth is being thrown out as such a virtue. A multi-cultural society isn't automatically better than a mono-cultural society, it's just different. I'm not going to shit on Koreans for being a mostly Korean culture. It's not bad, or even good, it's just a certain way to be.
That said, we're not a country that have ever, in the thousands of years of history we've inherited by virtue of birth, had a society with so many distant flavours before, and I do think it would be a good thing to focus more on what unites us as a whole, while still acknowledging what makes us distant. The difference between integration and assimilation I suppose.
`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
`How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
`You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'