It's happened in the past in the UK -- the English in effect are a mongrel nation with Saxon, Danish, Norman-French, etc. blood and it worked.
The problem is the pace of change
New, skilled immigrants may know more about their adopted country and be more grateful than liberals born in the country (think Jane Fonda...)
As the article says Economically, many minority Mertonites are doing pretty well in their enclaves. The Indians and Chinese are doing best of all in school and in jobs, closely tracked by Koreans and Tamils. As in the national picture, the white British are somewhere in the middle.
Wrong. England is lost. Demographics rule countries, not wishful thinking.
At this rate, the Moslems won’t have to kill us all in their jihad - they’ll just buy up, move in, and push us all out.
Not quite. Without the other cultures being willing to,adopt British culture, it is almost inevitable that Britain will disappear and, without the other cultures integrating but keeping to themselves, blood will be shed.
Britain is heading towards the same sort of chaos and blood wars that every other non-western nation tends to experience regularly.
What are you thinking? Look at the demographics and at who is having children. English peeps=Birth Control/abortion and Muslims=reproducing with 4 wives at a time with no limit on girls. Girls can have babies and more babies, maybe 12 each with 4+ fathers contributing sperm legally.
Which one do you think will win. Us with a weak faith or them with their reproduction? No contest.
“Except for the Moslem angle, I don’t believe this is a complete tragedy.
The facts are that people are moving around. What is needed is a way to integrate people better.
It’s happened in the past in the UK — the English in effect are a mongrel nation with Saxon, Danish, Norman-French, etc. blood and it worked.”
Further, you mention Scots, Welsh, etc. The truth is that those groups were far more assimilable to England because they are of the same genetic stock and have cultures that are not wildly dissimilar. Muslims are not a good fit for England because, for the most part, Mudlims are not as assimilable in England as the groups you mentioned. Many Muslims prefer to keep their Muslim customs when they conflict with a host country’s customs and law.
Further, most Muslims in England are Pakistani. You may have noticed that people typically side with a candidate who is of their race or who promises benefits to their race. Simply put — race matters in both how people conduct themselves and how they view others. That’s why multiracial and multicultural societies are fraught with more internal conflict than more homogenous societies.
Enoch Powell was right.
BUT, and it's a big but, Britain only survived and flourished because the various component tribes and nationalities lived under a common umbrella. People were very much British first, and the various tribal loyalties came second. In other words, there was an overiding arc that united all these disparate groups. In modern Britain that doesn't seem to be happening - perhaps because, as you say, its' all happened so quickly - and that is going to mean trouble. Multiculturalism is fine, IF people rejoice in the differences. But modern Britain (and the modern USA) seems to be becoming defined by those differences, and that's not a good trend.
You are nuts. Study Muslim history to discover why.
So if they're the majority...how can they be a minority?
1400 years – 270 MILLION innocents murdered by “the prophet" followers!!!
thats not an earthquake...
Our English ancestors who fought in the Crusades are rolling over in their graves..