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As for national identity i would be delighted to raise a family, i don't care about the ethnicity of my parter or if my children are white. I think that having different cultures here is very helpful in the growth of this country and indeed as human beings. But only within reason, i do not agree with the displacement of our culture for another. Which even if not deliberate, is still occuring.
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I agree with this. We quite rightly celebrate differences but that requires there to be differences to celebrate. We are approaching a country with no culture or identity of its own anymore that is indistinguishable from anywhere else on the world. I am not against other cultures. I am not against other races. I merely wish for Britain to preserve an identity of its own in the process.
I don't see why to be indigenous it has to date back thousands of years. My family, as far as I can trace it back, is from the British Isles- mostly England, some from Northern Ireland, some the Republic of Ireland. I consider myself indigenous British. I'm not the only one in that situation. What more is required to be indigenous? How far back does the "melting pot" have to go before you can be called indigenous?
Self-hate and self-denial does appear to have become ingrained into a large portion of the British psyche- I can think of few other countries in the world that actively try to deny the exitence of any indigenous or national people, and openly seek to get rid of any pride in one's own country and heritage. Patriotism in the UK is a dying thing. There's a difference between patriotism and jingoism, and it appears the quest to exterminate the nasty latter has led to a reduction in the perfectly acceptable former.