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None of this should be surprising unless you've been just gobbling up whatever you heard through mainstream media. Britain is at a breaking point. There are existential questions to be asked: Is Britain British without British Bourgeoisie that have lived there for thousands of years with new arrivals that have no commmon culture or connection to the land? Can Japan be called Japan without Japanese that have lived the…
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If someone criticizes Delhi and your mind jumps to people's skin color--instead of literally everything else about the city--then you're the racist. None of the Indians (or Pakistanis and Bangladeshis) living in London want parts of London to resemble Delhi. They left their families and homeland behind to get away from Delhi and places like it.
>If someone criticizes Delhi and your mind jumps to people's skin color--instead of literally everything else about the city--then you're the racist. Hmm American spelling and a low effort attempt at DARVO. So let's just cut through the noise. You obviously picked Delhi and the other guy picked India out of everything else and this is clearly not a coincidence. And there are certainly worse places. My guess is the He…
Of course it's not a coincidence. India simply is the largest and most well-recognized example of third-world disorder and dysfunction. It's the second largest country in the world and the single largest source of immigrants to the U.K. Other places are worse--for example, Dhaka--but a random person on the Internet is much more likely to have seen pictures of Delhi than Dhaka.
I'm curious what valid reasons there are against Brexit? AFAICT, most people arguing it is/was bad are ignoring any kind of evidence. The UK is doing fine, especially relative to other EU countries. None of the things the anti-Brexit side claimed would happen have happened.
I think a lot of the Brexit vote was just people being fed up and voting for something different. In my experience few Brexit voters are happy with what arrived.
None of this should be surprising unless you've been just gobbling up whatever you heard through mainstream media. Britain is at a breaking point. There are existential questions to be asked: Is Britain British without British Bourgeoisie that have lived there for thousands of years with new arrivals that have no commmon culture or connection to the land? Can Japan be called Japan without Japanese that have lived the…
The result of the poll in the article seems to be a soft rebuke of the kind of viewpoint you espouse. > Can Japan be called Japan without Japanese that have lived there for thousands of years and their homogeneous identity? > Why is it okay for one but not the other? Where does this double standard come from ? Disingenuous question; even people who like Japan and Japanese culture tend to dislike how xenophobic and ra…
None of this should be surprising unless you've been just gobbling up whatever you heard through mainstream media. Britain is at a breaking point. There are existential questions to be asked: Is Britain British without British Bourgeoisie that have lived there for thousands of years with new arrivals that have no commmon culture or connection to the land? Can Japan be called Japan without Japanese that have lived the…
Are you British or do you live in Britain?
but one need not live in Britain to know its issues and see past the filter of MSM
we have X now so we can get a more raw look at what's actually happening and what we are not being fully shown.
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A successful rejoin referendum would probably help contain Reform. However such a referendum is basically taboo in the British public discourse.
The taboo is the notion that the European Union needs to be reformed (no pun intended!). I was a Remainer, and do not regret that, but I hoped the EU would clean house. (Yes, the UK should do as well btw. Scotland should be independent. The House of Lords, Whitehall and Royal Family need a major overhaul.)
While it contributes enormously to the welfare of the continent, the EU is by design dysfunctional and toothless.
I'm a pessimist, there is so much money behind the forces that want to see the EU fall apart because small individual countries are easier to buy off, I don't see how we can defend against that.
We'll only know what we lost when it's gone, but then it'll be too late.
None of this should be surprising unless you've been just gobbling up whatever you heard through mainstream media. Britain is at a breaking point. There are existential questions to be asked: Is Britain British without British Bourgeoisie that have lived there for thousands of years with new arrivals that have no commmon culture or connection to the land? Can Japan be called Japan without Japanese that have lived the…
Having a storied history, culture, and customs go beyond simple birthright citizenship and xenophobic behavior to enforce said culture and sense of identity. The US, for all its faults, exemplifies how unnecessary it is to rely solely on where you were born— anyone can move to the US, get citizenship, and call themselves “American.” I honestly cannot understand what “connection with the land” even means in reality. M…
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You didn't hurt my feelings. You came on here and boasted about how weak your country was.
>You didn't hurt my feelings. You came on here and boasted about how weak your country was. This is a very bizarre response. Don't mind if I screenshot this and write an email. Very strange behaviour.
None of this should be surprising unless you've been just gobbling up whatever you heard through mainstream media. Britain is at a breaking point. There are existential questions to be asked: Is Britain British without British Bourgeoisie that have lived there for thousands of years with new arrivals that have no commmon culture or connection to the land? Can Japan be called Japan without Japanese that have lived the…
It's not ok in Japan either. And its "homogeneous identity" is mostly a construction, dating back from the Meiji era. And Heian period Japan had a completely different set of values, not less nor more valid than Meiji era Japan, just different. So the identity of a nation is not something eternal nor absolute. Heck, there is even proof Japan has been a mosaic of at least three sets of human populations in prehistoric…