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Canada and Australia are immigration nations. The UK definitely is not.

• booleandilemma 2y ago
  The national dish of England is chicken tikka masala, last time I checked.
  • eastbound 2y ago
    Most common first name in France is Mohammed. I really don’t understand what he means with immigration, unless he means he wants mostly-Asian immigration because others are a problem.
    • daemoens 2y ago
      That factoid is because Muslims are obsessed with the name, and you will find someone named Mohammed in the majority of Muslim families, not immigration. It doesn't take much for the name to enter the top 10 boy names when they become 0.1% of the population.
• volkl48 2y ago
  Historically/as national origin story, no. But it has in recent decades accepted quite a large number of immigrants, and is at this point at a higher foreign-born % than the US, if still lower then Canada or Australia. That's not quite the same as having a culture rooted in the immigration narrative, but it has changed significantly. And I'll also mention that while integration of significant immigration into an existing society is clearly a challenging prospect everywhere, the UK is overall, doing noticeably better with it than most of it's European peers. Both from my subjective perspective as a somewhat regular visitor, and from a lot of the metrics I see. This is a decent piece for the data side of that claim: https://samf.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-integration https://samf.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-integration