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Originally Posted by jetengine
Sounds like Morrissey could also be describing Canada and just about any other part of the British Commonwealth. The problem is that because "we" (i.e., the pricks in government) felt so much guilt in the latter half of the last century over the cultural imperialism committed in the name of the British Empire over the preceding three or four hundred years, "we" decided the gates would be open to immigrants according to "multicultural"--rather than "melting-pot"--criteria. As a result, most of Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, etc. have become "countries of small countries"--often feuding amongst themselves all the way to the human rights tribunals. There doesn't seem to be any central dialects or even languages any longer, and the only thing that holds our countries together is an obsession with--and imitation of--the lowest and most informal of American pop culture. Just hearing Canadian news anchors refer to children as 'kids' and people as 'guys' is enough to make me puke these days. It seems we have lost so much of our central identity, and fallen such a victim to an inept approach to appeasing our guilt, we have actually adopted 'McDonald's culture' (the bottom of our old enemy's cultural barrel) as our only homogenising element! It would be hilarious if it wasn't so frighteningly macabre.
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our cultural identity has certainly changed in the last 50 years, but what have we lost exactly?
britishness? what is that?
perhaps it's just a perpetual evolution, just like the british made concentration camps in the boar war were evolution, and the colonisation of america (and the genocide of countless american indians) was evolution, and the normans were evolution, and the vikings pillaging of british towns was evolution. you can go back as far as you want, but the world is always in flux, and perhaps trying to resist it is regressive.
millions have been massacred in the name of the crown and colinisation since the 16th century.why is it so awful for indians, polish, banggledeshis to come and live over here? guilt is sometimes a good thing, it puts things into perspective.
hey, at least we are not at war, the polish potato pickers have no wish to stage a coup, and we are not being massacred in genocide.
it'sall much less exciting than the papers will have us believe.