Is It Too Late To Stop England Being Predominantly English?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3167654/SEBASTIAN-SHAKESPEARE-English-foreign-language-London-says-Terence-Stamp.html

/// ‘I do think a multicultural society can be a good thing, but when it’s at the cost of your own culture and history, then it’s gone too far and it would be very sad if London stopped being predominantly English.’ ///

It would be sad if England stopped being predominantly English Mr Stamp, but eh! is it too late?

[whiskeryron]

I fink its 2 late bro innit

[ichkeria]

Couldn't he just point at the mango?
:-)

[jim360]

I'm not sure your question title is what you meant to ask...

[ummmm]

Strange. Last time I went to London everyone I spoke to spoke English.

And whats it got to do with history?

[Baldric]

Why would you want To Stop England Being Predominantly English?

[Baldric]

Sorry Jim, you weren't there last time I looked!

[whiskeryron]

///
ummmm
Strange. Last time I went to London everyone I spoke to spoke English.

And whats it got to do with history? /// Well ummmm The Saxons, Danes, Romans,& Normans didn't speak English.

[VHG]

>>> Last time I went to London everyone I spoke to spoke English.

But what about the people you DIDNT speak to ?

[ummmm]

I wouldn't know, would I.

[ichkeria]

Those damned Anglish Germans will be coming in and taking over.
Actually I think that already happened 1200 years ago.
Or else the French, and have some of us speaking their language: ah, that already happened too

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm

"I wouldn't know, would I". don't speak to foreigners. :0)

[anotheoldgit]

ichkeria

We now live in 21st century England.

[Old_Geezer]

I'm unsure that invasions that occurred in the past means that less violent ones in the present or future should be welcomed. There has been a lot of cultural change in a single lifetime, it is hardly surprising that those brought up here feel this is not the same country they recognise.

But the issue is not so much that, uncomfortable though it can be to those affected. It is whether we should be letting so many into an already overcrowded nation island, and whether, if we do accept incomers they should adopt the existing way of life or set up their own cultural enclave, or whether there is a balance to be made that keeps all content. Get that right and the concern about overly rapid change, and destruction of what is presently considered quintessential English, (or British for that matter) will probably dispel.

[ivor4781]

i don't think the country is being not predominantly English but here up north some estates are anything but English mainly Slovaks and romas causing mayhem with there cultural and unhygienic habits I:E using passages ways for daily fly tipping, the "English "people in these estates cant get out because there house have dropped by as much as 40% in value because of the immigrant troubles

[sandyRoe]

I notice the interview was conducted in Mayfair. There'd be a fair number there speaking in foreign tongues.

[New Judge]

There are large swathes of the UK (mainly in the big cities but also to a lesser degree in smaller towns) that are anything but English (particularly if judged by what one hears spoken). Shown a scene from one of these places and the last place that a stranger would suggest, if asked to guess where they were, would be England.

People often say that they come to London and find that everybody they encounter speaks English. That may well be so. Most of the hospitality industry in London naturally will employ staff fluent in English. But venture into one of the "enclaves" (which I have mentioned many times on AB before) and it a very different story. Many areas house almost exclusively Asian families who, despite having been here for a generation or more, seem to see English as a bit of an encumbrance. Eastern Europeans gather in large numbers in other areas and their multitudinous tongues predominate if you're out and about.

I have read Mr Stamp’s article. There is little contention in any of it. It may not be what many people would like to hear but it is largely the truth, especially when speaking about London’s East End.

[Retrochic]

If ,hypothetically of course, the whole AB Tribe was moved to a colony in Outer Mongolia, would you expect everyone to then convert to Buddha, speak Khalka among themselves (some may start to talk sense actually ) and partake of yaks milk ? People have a right to move to another country and speak their mother tongue , follow their religion and eat what they have been brought up to eat. However......they should be able to speak English,enough to get by, before they are allowed to come into the country as is necessary in Canada,Australia and the USA

[Hypognosis]

I'll bet the Spanish have much the same to say about the ex-pat Brit colonies in their midst.

I cannot help wondering if the Brits in Spain once owned the same houses that ended up becoming the above-named "enclaves".

That thing about property price drop certainly explains the phenomenon of "white flight". If people didn't keep running away from "furriners" then they would be more widely dispersed and nobody would be moaning that they feel like an isolated Brit, living in some foreign country, rarely meeting "their own kind".

[ivor4781]

Hypognosis
try visiting one of hundreds of these "enclaves" for a day then come back and tell me what you think.dont talk on here without knowing what "you are talking about"...

[ivor4781]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10452130/Roma-in-Sheffield-When-it-goes-off-it-will-be-like-an-atom-bomb-here.html