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Perhaps worth noting: This is the same John Cleese that has decried London becoming a multicultural city that is "no longer English." https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/john-cleese-is-cancel...
Earlier quoted context omitted.
When the natives make up less than 50% of the population, he might have a point. What does it mean to be English? Nothing more than holding a passport?
The English complaining about natives losing power would be a bit rich, wouldn't it?
I think he would say "has landed us in" today.
Perhaps worth noting: This is the same John Cleese that has decried London becoming a multicultural city that is "no longer English." https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/john-cleese-is-cancel...
Prophetic
From one perspective, the rise of Politically Correct English evinces a kind of Lenin-to-Stalinesque irony. That is, the same ideological principles that informed the original Descriptivist revolution---namely, the rejections of traditional authority (born of Vietnam) and of traditional inequality (born of the civil rights movement)---have now actually produced a far more inflexible Prescriptivism, one largely unencu…
Perhaps worth noting: This is the same John Cleese that has decried London becoming a multicultural city that is "no longer English." https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/john-cleese-is-cancel...
He's rather right about London and many parts of the EU, Europe has been losing its cultural identity for years.
Perhaps worth noting: This is the same John Cleese that has decried London becoming a multicultural city that is "no longer English." https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/john-cleese-is-cancel...
He's rather right about London and many parts of the EU, Europe has been losing its cultural identity for years.
Perhaps worth noting: This is the same John Cleese that has decried London becoming a multicultural city that is "no longer English." https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/john-cleese-is-cancel...
If 'who said it' and 'what views do they hold' is more important than what they're actually saying, then we've become post-rational, and well on our way back to less open and enlightened culture.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
When the natives make up less than 50% of the population, he might have a point. What does it mean to be English? Nothing more than holding a passport?
Apart from the gross sentiment that could easily be read from this comment, "natives" do not in fact make up less than 50% of London's population. This whole story is a terrible fit for HN.