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Immigration and the death of British culture
We often here arguments over the death of British culture due to immigration - but looking at pictures of some of the EDL earlier today it struck me that Britain has indeed changed, but is there a bigger argument - that cultural imperialism has impacted the UK to a larger extent?
You get into your Peugeots, VWs, Fords or Fiats (French, German, American or Italian), drive into town, grab a latte from Starbucks (American), call your partner on your Nokia phone (Finland) to arrange to pick up a coffee table from Ikea (Sweden) and then go shopping for jeans at French Connection (French).
The following day, you log onto your Sony Vaio (Japanese) to book tickets to go see the new film 'Night & Day' (American) and decide to pop into MacDonald's (American) for a burger...after realising that the kebab (Greek), Indian (Indian) and Chinese (Chinese) restaurants are going to be closing soon.
If British culture is dying on its feet, isn't it because we've bought into the lifestyle of rest of the world and we like it?
You get into your Peugeots, VWs, Fords or Fiats (French, German, American or Italian), drive into town, grab a latte from Starbucks (American), call your partner on your Nokia phone (Finland) to arrange to pick up a coffee table from Ikea (Sweden) and then go shopping for jeans at French Connection (French).
The following day, you log onto your Sony Vaio (Japanese) to book tickets to go see the new film 'Night & Day' (American) and decide to pop into MacDonald's (American) for a burger...after realising that the kebab (Greek), Indian (Indian) and Chinese (Chinese) restaurants are going to be closing soon.
If British culture is dying on its feet, isn't it because we've bought into the lifestyle of rest of the world and we like it?
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Nothing wrong with a spot of Americanisation, after all they were initially a product of the British.
Rock & Roll, was in fact Black music, I personally dislike it, but I enjoy Black American musicians such as the great Louis Armstrong. Neither did I like Teddy Boys, but I must say this about them they were nicely dressed, and although some carried flick-knives I can never remember any body being killed by them, unlike today were stabbings murders are almost a daily event.
That was the 50s, what about today's Blackism of our teenagers?
Baseball caps wore with the peak any way except at the front, trousers with the crutch dragging on the floor, the obligatory swagger, the loud music coming from their cars, rap music, the word 'You know what I mean man'? after each sentence.
Yes definitely the death of British Culture.
Nothing wrong with a spot of Americanisation, after all they were initially a product of the British.
Rock & Roll, was in fact Black music, I personally dislike it, but I enjoy Black American musicians such as the great Louis Armstrong. Neither did I like Teddy Boys, but I must say this about them they were nicely dressed, and although some carried flick-knives I can never remember any body being killed by them, unlike today were stabbings murders are almost a daily event.
That was the 50s, what about today's Blackism of our teenagers?
Baseball caps wore with the peak any way except at the front, trousers with the crutch dragging on the floor, the obligatory swagger, the loud music coming from their cars, rap music, the word 'You know what I mean man'? after each sentence.
Yes definitely the death of British Culture.
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I doubt my kids could tell you the names of kings and queens and they've been doing history.
They could tell you about Paracelcus and the development of medecine through the centuries.
There is an incredibly arrogant view of history that you see about sometimes that assumes that it is a subject where children should be indoctinated with a common story of "our Island race" in the way that they were when they were at school.
Thankfully History has moved on somewhat as a school subject since then and children learn skills like the evaluation of the reliability of sources
An important consideration in these days of tabloid journalism
They could tell you about Paracelcus and the development of medecine through the centuries.
There is an incredibly arrogant view of history that you see about sometimes that assumes that it is a subject where children should be indoctinated with a common story of "our Island race" in the way that they were when they were at school.
Thankfully History has moved on somewhat as a school subject since then and children learn skills like the evaluation of the reliability of sources
An important consideration in these days of tabloid journalism
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