Ironic considering the UK spent hundreds of years making other countries British by force
And that Britain has been a cultural melting pot for a couple of thousand years.
Xenophobia is the trojan horse they’re using to sneak fascism back into Europe and it’s working.
I get what you mean, and I agree, but xenophobia itself isn’t exactly a pretty gift left at the gates. It’s obviously wrong to be xenophobic, it shouldn’t be accepted. I think the tip of the spear might be a better metaphor.
When things get tough and people get anxious their bigotries come out. Nationalism and right-wing ideologies always take off in times of stress.
Yeah, bigotry is basically an autoimmune disorder of the body politic
This seems so simple and obvious, but I never thought of it that way. Well said!
Because people want (need?) someone to blame, and the easiest person to blame is someone who isn’t like themselves.
Britons making sure the decline after losing the Empire, and later after Brexit continues.
Xenophobia and exceptionalism combined is probably the most direct route to decline of a civilization.
It’s weird how USA and UK are messing up completely like they are dancing a weird dance of death together.The point is to enrich the wealthy few. That’s it. Follow the money.
Really do hate that this ideology is so pervasive. Humans have held this view for, it seems, as long as we’ve existed and it’s evident across every recorded account of our history.
Native-born vs assimilated people… it shouldn’t fucking matter.
And how many of those think of Dev Patel (born in London) as British?
Pretty fucking rich coming from the same country who forcibly “colonized” every nation they came across over the last millennia.
it’s pretty much because of that. Mostly through happenstance we had the most advanced navy when there was the cutting edge of warfare and therefore we managed to have one of the largest empires ever. So there’s a deeply ingrained myth of exceptionalism in the British psyche, where a lot of people still believe that we’ve got our position in the world because we deserve it as birthright
See also: Brexit
Humans are human no matter where they’re born, assholes.
So it’s a birth disease and we can’t catch otherwise? Pfeww…I’m relieved! I don’t need to wear a mask around the British visiting France anymore!
Sure… britons must be “born British”.
I’m fine with that since Britain itself is a fiction, and there is no specific country or region by that name.
People are welcome to create groups based on imaginary blood relationships. They’d just better not conflate that with their political nationality.
