Immigration and the death of British culture

[sp1814]

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?

[12thPaladin]

OK, don't you think the majority have laid back and accepted multiculturalism and the erosion of English culture as a given fact and that nothing can be done about it?

[reefer]

Any minute now JTH is going to say i remember when we had Doodlebugs Rickets and the Plague, The Good Old days :)

[12thPaladin]

In the name of progress Islam will take over the world?

I need medicating squd, what do you recommend !

[sp1814]

Perhaps we should substitute 'erosion' with the word 'development'.

Take for instance someone like Dizzee Rascal. He's as English as they come (and now - surprisingly, Britian's biggest selling male artist)...a few years ago, you would've thought of him as being Jamaican, but now you wouldn't.

Same with the food we eat - chicken tikka masala is now Britain's favourite dish. It doesn't mean that Tom Jones and fish and chips have been replaced...they've just been joined...Britain's cultural identity is changing, but then, it's always been changing.

It's what makes a country dynamic...and cultural identity is strong enough to withstand the onslaught of 'fashion'.

Remember when the country celebrated the Queen's Golden Jubilee. I noticed on telly that the crowds outside the palace were all waving the Union Flag, and they were not 'exclusively of European stock'.

That was a very good thing indeed.

[anotheoldgit]

Steve.5

I saw that film when it was a new release, I cannot remember any black or Asian actors in it though.

Please correct me if I am wrong, it was a long time ago.

But I must admit I saw a version of King Solomon's Mines, yesterday, and it would have made sp's hair curl (ups sorry).

It showed the hero and his heroine, captured by a tribe of vicious natives, these native were about to cook them in a large pot for their evening meal.

They don't make them like that anymore......they daren't.