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Former minister admits UK messed up on immigration [78]
[standpointmag.co.uk/node/5252/full] - great article in the standpoint about immigration in england.
I am usually pro multiculturalism but a few things in the article stood out. The first is a lithuanian business owner says
"I don't live in Britain. I live in Lithuania. I watch Lithuanian TV. I use the internet in Lithuanian. My friends are all Lithuanians. This shop is Lithuanian. I only meet Lithuanians. The only thing I do in Britain is pay taxes to the British."
That is worrying and explained later in the article by the differences between the american and brittish dream. There is no real pride in becoming british or forging a new future like in america.
Poles and Albanians talk about Britain as a "mini-America". But there is no British dream. East Europeans came to London not inspired by a dream of how great things could be, but by the knowledge of how much worse they can be. Talk of Britishness draws a blank face.
Of course judging by the behaviour of expat and tourist brits in poland who would want to become a brit:?