[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by Hugh

They don't want to eradicate our history, they would just like a less whitewashed version of it...

Our culture has always been about adapting and including - cultures grow, because if they get static, they decay; you know, cultural institutions like tea (from India), curries (mostly from Bangladesh), Punch and Judy (Italian), the Women's Institute (Canada), the C of E (breakaway from the RC church), our Royalty (Sax-Coburg-Gotha), the English Language (Latin and Germanic roots), etc., etc.

Every culture is an amalgam of the cultures around it combined with their own particular cultural experience and history

Yours seems to be an altruistic view of what's just happened in Bristol and London.

The Colston statue dumped into the estuary smacks of an eradication to me.
Branding Churchill as a racist smacks of rewriting hiustory, to me.

You list a range of cultural importations. Let me list some more:

Gangs (Albanian); knife crime (Somalia); begging (Romania).



---------- Post added at 16:42 ---------- Previous post was at 16:41 ----------

Originally Posted by BenMcr

It's not about taking bits out, it's about adding facts of history that weren't in 'recorded' history before.

What? What's being added that wasn't there before?