BBC NEWS | UK | Many Asians ‘do not feel British’
Three-quarters feel their culture is being diluted by living in the UK
I’m always amused (or annoyed, depending on the mode) on people who move away from their roots but expect their family culture to stay the same.
Whilst I believe that immigrant culture brings much of value to the host nation, it is to be expected that over time the immigrant family will experience a morphing of culture as two sets of value and identities start to blend. From sheer weight of numbers, it’s the incomer who will experience the greater change.
So let’s respect and encourage cultural identity, but understand that it will change over time — often at a speed that will make us uncomfortable.
The joke for me is of course that many immigrant communities are desperately clinging to ‘old ways’, when in fact their own culture, back in the ‘mother country’, has moved on and change significantly.
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