I just find it tiresome when people usually on the left pretend British culture doesn’t exist but every other country’s does. Then do what you’re doing and demand an itemised list they can shoot down one by one to prove their point.
Every group of people has a culture. Go on a local Facebook forum and you’ll see the culture of your local area, England, UK, Europe, all have cultures of various levels.
Very much soYeah when I posted the tea graph I almost posted church attendance too, and again that’s something recent immigrants tend to be propping up as native brits move away from it.
There's something rather humorous about people complaining about there being too many foreigners in the country. A thing they have noticed when returning from living in another country
Nah, this is the extreme argument again. There's nothing wrong with immigration or being in immigrant. You often have a better perspective. It's the quantity of numbers which is currently unsustainable that we are talking about here.
There are also many immigrants in the UK who think there has been too much immigration as well. It's a perfectly reasonable stand point.
Are you still living in the Netherlands?
fucking hell, A+for the sweeping generalisations.
Don't want to shoot them down one by one or anything remotely like that. I want an idea of what culture people are fearing is on the verge of disappearing because I'm struggling to think of a single thing I'm concerned is about to vanish from life in Britain.
I mean if you want to take our culture from Facebook groups then we're already fucked.
But what you're describing there changes over time irrespective of immigration so not really sure how restricting the number of foreigners coming into the country is going to solve that. Personally that's not what I consider the culture of a country so maybe you're all arguing about something completely different.The British culture. The set of unwritten rules and expectations that they are used to living their life by. I can’t be more specific than that. People like familiarity and fear difference. That’s just humans.
Would two users talking to each other in Hindi (even setting up their own separate forum or sub-thread to do so) erase that culture?We’ve got a culture here. It’s piss taking and bad puns and Grays Gone and not bringing politics into the football forum (!!!!!). Knowing it makes you feel more at home.
Would two users talking to each other in Hindi (even setting up their own separate forum or sub-thread to do so) erase that culture?
But what you're describing there changes over time irrespective of immigration so not really sure how restricting the number of foreigners coming into the country is going to solve that. Personally that's not what I consider the culture of a country so maybe you're all arguing about something completely different.
The translation stuff is really daft
And I don’t want to take jobs off people but how hard it to use Google translate or have an iPad available
I want an idea of what culture people are fearing is on the verge of disappearing
If losing our culture means there's not 101 posts every week on facebook about what colour bin to put out I'm all for itUsing bins.
Given that I've done procurement of interpretation and translation services for the NHS in the past, I know for a stone cold fact that neither patients nor clinicians want to use AI to try and exchange complex and incredibly sensitive and personal information.Don’t recommend AI as a way to save the NHS money…
Given that I've done procurement of interpretation and translation services for the NHS in the past, I know for a stone cold fact that neither patients nor clinicians want to use AI to try and exchange complex and incredibly sensitive and personal information.
Your view or mine is irrelevant really. If the parties either side of the exchange don't want it, they don't want it.I think if you’ve got a fixed view on the quality of a fast moving cutting edge tech your view is probably based on your biases more than anything concrete tbh.
If losing our culture means there's not 101 posts every week on facebook about what colour bin to put out I'm all for it
If losing our culture means there's not 101 posts every week on facebook about what colour bin to put out I'm all for it
Who's said that?Sorry mate, but you should probably sit this one out, along with anyone walking round the UK that claim they haven't seen any changes in the last 30 years!
Have we got a translation button on here yet?To be clear I’m not arguing the British culture is under threat from foreign invaders. I’m arguing it exists and people who claim that aren’t making some wild statement.
Not sure telling people who have been to other countries to pipe down because their personal experience doesn't match yours is really a good way to debate.In fairness, you went to Sweden and said there didn't look like any impact of immigration whatsoever, particularly with safety, which is just mind boggling.
Sorry mate, but you should probably sit this one out, along with anyone walking round the UK that claim they haven't seen any changes in the last 30 years!
He did also mention that they seemed to have a culture of finishing on time and also had enough discretionary income to go out or straight out from work which is always a good thing.In fairness, you went to Sweden and said there didn't look like any impact of immigration whatsoever, particularly with safety, which is just mind boggling.
Sorry mate, but you should probably sit this one out, along with anyone walking round the UK that claim they haven't seen any changes in the last 30 years!
Not sure telling people who have been to other countries to pipe down because their personal experience doesn't match yours is really a good way to debate.
Who's said that?
I mean what do you want, me to make up issues I witnessedI'm sorry, but it's just ridiculous to even entertain this. When it comes to the immigration debate, Sweden is about as good a talking point as any example in the world. Admittedly I have lived there, but if you've visited recently and cannot see any effects of immigration then any debate just isn't worthwhile to have.
I think you misunderstood what I was asking you for. Go back and read it again - I want to know which parts of British culture are being erased, not what changes have happened in British society.You asked for help identifying what has changed in the UK, as you couldn't work it out.
Can you genuinely see no changes in the UK?
It looks like either you were actually playing dumb, or you were too busy tying yourself in knots trying to argue the contrary for no reason that you forgot.
Christianity was ingrained in British culture. I feel it is being marginalised.I think you misunderstood what I was asking you for. Go back and read it again - I want to know which parts of British culture are being erased, not what changes have happened in British society.
Obviously I know there have been changes (duh). But the existence of Turkish barbers (or Polish supermarkets, or Huguenot weavers) in Britain does not preclude the existence of a British culture, or necessitate its erasure.
Which church do you worship at?Christianity was ingrained in British culture. I feel it is being marginalised.
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