• kot [they/them]
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    5 days ago

    I think the worst part of his dipshit argument is that he thinks human culture has ever existed in a vacuum. People have been migrating in and out of Europe and everywhere else since the stone age. England as it exists now is the result of several centuries of settling by different peoples and cultures, just like every other country. Like 99% of every language spoken in Europe (except for things like basque) came from somewhere else, and their religion is middle eastern. It's only natural that this would intensify now that travel is so much easier and everything is interconnected.
    But he thinks that we have to freeze things as they are now? After they colonized half of the world?? Ridiculous

    • Krem [he/him]
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      5 days ago

      England as it exists now is the result of several centuries of settling by different peoples and cultures

      yes seriously what kind of england do these people want to retvrn to because england only exists as a thing because of several foreign colonizations from the romans to the danish to the vikings to the french, and then fast forward to the 1900s, much of their pop culture came from former colonial subjects, jamaican/black british made popular music, south asian food etc.

      take away the foreign infulence and there's literally nothing left unless you draw some arbitrary line at like 1960 or 1700 or what