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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
That's what will make people dance around/avoid fingering cultures in the UK that might dominate in the longer term future.
Brexit has illustrated that there are cultural differences between continental Europeans and Brits. Both are conditioned by their environment. For example, Europeans governed under Roman Law are subtly aware that the law broadly says what they are allowed to do and anything else is implicitly not allowed (crossing the road is an example). Put rather simply but the principle is sound. British Law has none of this; it defines what you MUST do, what you MUST NOT do and everything else that doesn't negate what you must do is allowed subject to precedent in the Courts. This conditioning thus affects behaviour and hence culture.
There are certain cultures present in the UK that don't do diversity. A variant on the, multi-culturalism, causes problems for the defence of British culture. The ultra-woke may well think "so what?" - melange is the ultimate answer. This sort of evolution cannot and should not be stopped. But there are cultures that would prefer to dominate and possibly have that agenda in mind right now whereas the melange is a very slow burner.
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Is it fair so say that the culture from Finland to Greece, Portugal to Hungary is homogenous and the UK is somehow different from this homogenous bloc? I wouldn't say so, there are huge differences across an entire continent. There are similarities from a legal standpoint as you say but the way people relax, interact, eat, educate and so on are very different.
I agree that a cherry picking of the best of everything has worked well for British culture in the past and I am hopeful that it will in the future. The white Anglo Saxon brit tends to be a pragmatic person on the whole. There are of course some who say that white British people should dominate but this is slowly but surely being wiped out. For example, our teenage daughter has been invited to her first Iftar meal and we couldn't be happier at the broadening of her horizons