[Clemenza]

I know a lovely (in many ways) lass from London who is of East Indian ancestry who is just as English as Tony Blair, albeit prettier than Mrs. Blair. The Moose-limbs are an entirely different story.

[cyborg]

Some are nitpickers when coming to racial purity. How are people supposed to assilimate into English culture if people won't ever see them as being Brits? A lot of these debates with the muslims is because their religious life/culture doesn't take well to assimilation. BTW, there are many white muslims and they fit in about as much as their more brown tinted kin. Some of the old tossers rather have skinheads than assimilated Pakistanis.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Deacon, we are having a friendly little debate here.

Can an Indian from the subcontinent move to Britain and become an ethnic Briton or English (as opposed to a British citizen)?

I say no, because it is simply a contradiction in terms. They will always be an Indian.

You being an English bloke, can perhaps give us an English opinion. Can people such as your very prevelant Pakistani and Indian immigrants move themselves from one ethnic identity to another, especially when it is across racial lines?