Suella Braverman - sacked as Home Secretary (p394)

[East Level 2]

What is the common British culture ?

British culture: Japanese car, German lager, Indian/Chinese/Italian takeaway and a 50p England flag on the car during tournaments.

 

[The perfect fumble]

She’s a ****

Yeah, she's playing to the gallery, she has ambitions to lead the Conservative Party After Sunak crashes and burns.

She reckons this plays well with party members and conservative voters.

If you believe there's no such thing as bad publicity she's done a cracking job stealing the headlines.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

British culture: Japanese car, German lager, Indian/Chinese/Italian takeaway and a 50p England flag on the car during tournaments.

People are clinging to British heritage, not British culture.

 

[The perfect fumble]

British culture: Japanese car, German lager, Indian/Chinese/Italian takeaway and a 50p England flag on the car during tournaments.

And self-deprecating humour.

 

[Vic]

She was born in Harrow. Her Parents are from Mauritius and Kenya. So no, she probably won't.

So, a family of citizens of nowhere?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

So, a family of citizens of nowhere?

We’re just lucky she identifies as a woman.

 

[Vic]

Capital cities like London and Paris and major cities like New York and even Manchester, are by their history and their economies more cosmopolitan than the countries they are in, they are, as you say, a melting pot.

A “melting pot” is a society in which multiple cultures mix freely, borrow from each other, and gradually blend together.

This is Domalino's post where he gives two definitions of multiculturalism....



All perfectly fine, but clearly from these definitions multiculturalism is not the same as melting pot, in fact melting pot, with its emphasis on blending undermines the cultural uniqueness of "different cultural groups in society". The critics of melting pot see it not as integration (there's nothing to integrate with) but assimilation, the destruction of ones distinct cultural identity.

So many things muddy this debate, the polarisation of racism as black versus white, I don't need to tell you what a misrepresentation that is, as Diane Abbott has found to her cost. And that Britain has no culture to call her own, that we are all citizens of the world now, that history, tradition, values, institutions, national identity, its all in flux in one enormous cosmopolitan flurry.

Now what exactly do you mean by "culture"? Just for starters, is colonialism part of British culture?

And somewhere between 20 and 25 per cent of the people in the world live in a country other than the one of their birth.

My Scottish-Ecuadorian great niece is marrying her Korean-American fiance. They live in Spain. Is Spanish culture under threat?

 

[Vic]

British culture: Japanese car, German lager, Indian/Chinese/Italian takeaway and a 50p England flag on the car during tournaments.

The flag made in China.

 

[oakiecokie]

The flag made in China.

That made me LOL Vic. Very good mate. ;)

 

[I'm With Stupid]

And somewhere between 20 and 25 per cent of the people in the world live in a country other than the one of their birth.

Surely that's not true. Unless you count the people whose country changed under them.