They say that no good will come of Latin-Greek or Greek-Latin hybrids: television, meritocracy, homosexuality. But "Polis, Not Ethnos" would not have worked, as you will see.
Britishness is a civic, not an ethnic, concept. My erstwhile antagonists in the BNP (by all accounts still keeping a watchful eye on me - hello, Nazis) have in their constitution a list, quite beyond parody, of acceptable "folk communities" that it would be completely impossible to identify in practice (Anglo-Saxon, Norse, Celtic, variations on these). But the fact of the matter is that every subject of this Realm is a British Citizen, which no one can dispute and expect to win the argument, or even be taken seriously on a personal level. God Save The Queen, for this as for so much else.
Which brings me to the main point of this post, which is to return to the impact of mass immigration on recruitment for middle-ranking medical positions. Certain ethnic minorities have long produced disproportionately high numbers of doctors. But now, not least (though not exclusively) because of the EU, foreign white Gentiles matter more than British Asians or British Jews. One to watch, I fear.
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You state that Britishness is merely a civic, and not an ethnic concept. You state this as fact, which it isn't...it is merely your personal opinion.
ReplyDeleteI believe that Britishness is an entirely ethnic concept; that is my opinion, belief, philosophy. Some people will agree and some won't...but [in theory] I have a right to hold, publish and broadcast such a contrary opinion to yours.
No, it's the law. And the plain facts of history. Opinion and philosophy do not enter into it: Britishness simply is not an ethnic concept, as a matter of fact. Those who say that it is are simply, objectively wrong, and do not know what they are talking about.
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