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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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Up until recently, I would have fully agreed with you.
But if you add up one little difference to another, to another etc, then you get a lot of differences.
Yes, we have different foods, arts, music from all over. But British people do not know our own food, arts, music etc now.
Outside influences are fine, enrichment is fine as long as it does not become a flood which it has. That is what destructive to our culture and why it is dying a slow death. So much so, that most people don't even realise it.