So far it has been stated(by others, not you), that immigration improved society because it bring skilled and knowledgeable people, it is economically beneficial.I can't explain mulitculturalism to you any more than what's been covered already. British children have the luck and privilege to grow up in a diverse society, which is why their generation is even more accepting than the society at large. You have your firmly entrenched views. You're welcome to them.
Oh, so you have a range of white people in your country. Congratulations, bully for you. Also, there is no "argument for more diversity". Immigration happens within limits in the UK. Contrary to what racist doomsayers might say, there is no agenda to exterminate the white population. There is still over 80% white people, and most Brits aren't bothered by this figure.
Blond-haired and brown-haired people are also different. Do you also try to attribute character traits to hair colour? Because cultural differences are independent of skin colour. Don't bring biology into this unless you want to expose your ignorance. Please list the physiological differences within the human species as a function of skin colour, mentioning citations, references, and all sources now as we're entering scientific territory.
Historically, people have integrated as a consequence of empire. You have to be very mindful of this. Despite this, there were elements of multiculturalism with Roman, Indian, Mongol societies, amongst others. But in our post-colonial world the circumstances are very different. You also ignored my point that even if something hasn't worked in the past, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be tried ever again. Globalisation is relentless and free movement is the future, at least until the internet becomes fully virtually immersible, and perhaps even then.
As I expected, your wiki source is highly problematic. It does not show what you think it does. It indicates that reported rape cases rose between 2008-2015. Your assumption is that this is because of increased immigration. Yet the wiki makes no mention of immigration whatsoever. You also can't compare to timeframes where there was no immigration. It's also well documented that improvements with the reporting process and decreased social tolerance of rape likely meant that more cases were reported while incidence of rape itself remained constant.
Now I am not going to talk about how it affect their homeland which they abandoned and how it affects global politics and economics but whatever. So far you only talk about how lucky people in Britain are, supported by anecdotical evidence as I did. Now I would expect some rational explanation. If you asked me why I am nationalist (racist/populist whatever u call it) I would explain it right away.
I am not sure why u bring race into this again. I said, caucasian is distinctivie race from other two. Blond and brown haired people are not different. My friends were blonde in childhood, now have dark hair but whatever, lets keep on topic. Nowhere did I say "character". I said physical and psychological attributes are definitely common among people of same racial background. (not all attributes obviously)
Cultural differences are PARTLY independent of skin color. There is definitely corellation albeit not 100%. But lets not obsses about skin color, because there is much deeper differences than that.
Historically, people moved and integrated. End of sentence. Has nothing to do with empires or kingdoms or modern republics/ monarchies anything. Back in time people moved and integred for same reason as today, better living conditions. dangers, wars, interest...
My wiki source is problematic since I spent like two minutes googling it. I find it odd if people demand conclusions based on few months of work with statistics which are not available to me. Especially, if all I ever did was to ask you, to explain multiculturalism to me. So far, you respond with sarcasm, calling people who does not support multicultiralism as populist/racists and warn me not to go into sensitive topics because I will show my ignorance while you have not shown single quote, statistics or (what I would prefer) empirical evidence. What is more, you come up with clerly wrong statements.
Good thing is that you mentioned Romans, Mongols, etc. Roman empire lasted somewhere around 5 hundreed years (depends on historian and including or not including Byzantine empire) and one of major reasons why it failed was immigration or influx of barbarians. Mongol empire existed solely on application of power and fear. Once that was gone, empire was divided among many and on its way to extinction. And there are many more examples from prehistorical era till modern times. Before anyone accuse me of generalizing I understamd complexity of such problems but different cultures and immigration especially in case of Rome played huge role.
EDIT: "You also ignored my point that even if something hasn't worked in the past, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be tried ever again. "
Well I ignored that because as historian I firmly believe that this is irrational. If something failed NUMEROUS times before it is absolutely irrational to try it again. While circumstances in past were a little different it makes no difference. This is reason why we study history in first place, not to make same mistakes again.
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