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[email protected] · November 9th 16, 12:30 PM posted to uk.transport.london

On Wed, 09 Nov 2016 13:02:22 +0000
Optimist wrote:
On Tue, 08 Nov 2016 18:54:51 -0600, wrote:

In article ,
(Arthur Figgis) wrote:

On 08/11/2016 18:57, Graeme Wall wrote:
On 08/11/2016 18:27, Arthur Figgis wrote:
On 08/11/2016 13:04, Graeme Wall wrote:

And what exactly is the British "way of life"? Xenophobia,
Homophobia, idolatory of whatever our American masters dictate?

People often forget that Britain (well, England) is unique in not
having a way of life. After all, it is just "normal", while everything
else is exciting and "other" in comparison.

Just as everyone else has accents and are natives.

I find that travelling to places like Germany, Scandinavian and
Scotland, there is a perception amongst a surprising number of the
kind of people one meets in pubs that England does indeed lack
natives. This leads to some strange assumptions, particularly with
regard to life in contemporary London...

They're not entirely wrong. There are no indigenous English. Everyone here
is descended from immigrants, even if from many centuries ago.

Indeed, we are all Africans.

That whole line of descent argument is fatuous. If you take it to its logical
conclusion we're all descended from bacteria. So what? There are indigenous
English as much as there are indigenous peoples of any country and
unsurprisingly you tend to find the people who claim otherwise are usually
descended from recent immigrants, presumably as a way to make themselves feel
less "other".

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Spud