The thing about English culture is that it is difficult to see. Why is it difficult to see, because many aspects of English culture are all over the world, with it's roots here.
As a nation we have given the world many things, take sport, football, baseball, rugby, cricket, tennis, great literary figures like Shakespeare, poets.
Science and technology, chemistry.
We led the way with a national health service, state education. The world we live in was created here, in England.
Agreed 100%. I would say that England/Britain was arguably the most consequential nation of the last 3 to 4 centuries. Especially when it comes to its contributions in the areas of law, government, industry, and science.
My feeling is that that the things that made us the greatest nation in the world are attached to these threads and the government and other forces are deliberately breaking these threads, destroying our sense of self worth as a nation, for example telling us that the empire was a bad thing, for example, telling us that we need to apologise for slavery, why, up until England declared slavery illegal it was a perfectly normal thing to do and every nation in the world since the beginning of time had slaves.
Well of course slavery was practiced by almost every nation and empire but it doesn't make it right. And when other nations don't apologize and you do, it only makes you all the more superior. It's called having the moral high ground.
As for the empire being a bad thing, I have to disagree with you. It might have benefited the colonized nations in some ways but that doesn't necessarily make it justifiable. Invading nations by force, establishing military bases, controlling their trade, and economy and stripping their populations from the most basic of rights, self-determination, is always "bad" Arthur regardless of whether it actually benefited those nations.
If somebody broke into my house and started ordering me around I wouldn't welcome them with open arms eve if they did some nice work in the garden or if they gave my kids a KitKat. Same thing with the Muslim invasion of Iberia. They did bring on scientific progress and great architecture but still doesn't make it the least but more right.
To make this great nation into just another bit of land that anyone has the right to live here, an accident of birth.
Jus soli was effectively abolished in the UK in 1983. A child born here doesn't automatically acquire British citizenship unless one of the parents is a citizen or have "settled" status. So it's not at all a mere accident.
People,say things like, oh you are an immigrant, our fathers fought in world war two, you have no more right than me , the newcomer, I can come to your country and use your democracy, your benefit system, your NHS and as for your culture, that's shit and I'll change it and bring my culture here and use your freedoms to destroy you from within.
Well Arthur, as long as you distinguish between the "good" immigrants and the "bad" ones, I won't oppose preventing those who want to "destroy Britain from within" from coming here. I'm all for that.
My families blood has stained the soil of England for every battle for a thousand years and maybe more and that gives us the right to demand that newcomers abide by the ethos, ethics and morals of this land and more to the point swear loyalty to and love this land of freedom and tolerance, if people cannot do this simple thing then they have no right to be here.
Like I said, every people have the right to self-determination and one of the central elements of that right is maintaining your lifestyle, culture, and laws so I think it's appropriate that the English try to deny access to anyone who they* think will try to change or damage their lifestyle, culture, or laws. *By "they" I mean the majority of Brits.
As for the blood stains and wars, do you personally know for sure that
your descendants fought in wars as far back as a millennium ago?
One more question Arthur, who do you think has more right to live in Britain, an anti-Semitic, homophobic, anti-Monarchist, anti-Democracy, pro-Fascism, 3rd generation British Paksitani, OR an anti-Semitic, homophobic, anti-Monarchist, anti-Democracy, pro-Fascism white Brit? and do you think either of them should be deported?
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