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Originally Posted by Damien
People should integrate, speak English and there shouldn't be segregated areas but people should also be able to retain their own culture as far as is it is compatible with liberal Western society.
The country would be a monotonous bore if people were made to be the same. The examples you gave at the top of his post: the Irish, the Caribbeans and the Indians have given great things to Britain and our society. Food, music and art have all had influences from these immigrant communities. If they were made to comply with what is British and were made to think in 'similar ways' then that would be terrible and destructive to our culture. It would just die a slow death and fail to evolve.
Besides British culture was all for importing different cultural influences long before immigration, i.e Empire.
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But what do we do if they don't want to? If they're invited here, allowed to come or even given asylum and still don't want to integrate? We're a pretty tolerant nation but many people want to take advantage of that whilst being themselves intolerant, unwilling to mix or accept our ways. That's the problem.