artIn the middle of Acrimony surrounding Keir Starmer? Immigration reminders – A row that can follow him in retirement and forward – there is a small examined part of the agreement between the Prime Minister and his critics. “If people go to our country,” Starmer said, “They also need to promote unity.” You may believe that consolidation is not best achieved by government command, despite what conversations what has been a good thing – not just for immigrants but for all.
Mixing, incarnation and collaboration with people who do not like you have good, the argument goes, for individuals and countries throughout. Views are expanded. The unequivocally weakened, at least a little. Lives are better, and feelings of loneliness and splash are gone. Who wants to live in a country without such social exchanges – in other words, in a worthy society?
In fact, it appears that many of us make. For centuries, this country is synonymous with segregation – in class, education, attitude, clothing, recreational practices and habitats. Since the early 1980s, when the abstinence begins with the british postwar, these ancient divisions are determined by the increased polarization of limits and between regions.
“The UK – England in particular – there are some deep spatials uniform … among the OECD countries,” noticed the socioeconomic website of the economic data in the past year. “These differences are increasing in more than three decades.” Deep separation also exists within cities, towns and villages. This week, research published by pollsters more shown that 44% of the Britons “Say they sometimes feel that they are strangers to those around them”.
Most of the modern life seems to be part of separation: dressing in public headphones, driving cars with tinted windows, looking at your phone than your phone. The riches as more likely to turn away from their owns from other Britons, withholding taxes and private health care and at the back of electric phones.
In his immigration speech last week, Starmmer said he wanted Britain to be “a country walking together”, recognized the “obligations we acknowledge each other”. This wish will be true. Some of his policies, such as eliminating non-tax conditions, which took some taxes from the owners of owners of the owners of the owners of the owners of the owners of the owners of the owners of the owners of the owners of the owners of their modest changes in the established order This right is their feelings to separate treatment.
Nevertheless it is interesting that despite the welcome changes, the government, as most of the British precursors, are rarely when elites are told to participate in the rest of the society. Nor Stillmer criticized the other britons with a separatist’s tendencies, such as white voters who arrived in the suburbs from urban residents, or alleviating residents of the urban unrelent of income. However, participation lecture is reserved for immigrants.
Patron way, this method ignores the fact that immigration is the meaning of an act of aggregation: you are in combination with your original national identity in a country. Even if you don’t try to learn the language or meet the locals – a narrow-mindedness not unknown ours british expats, as this country likes to euphemistically label its emigrants – You are sharing the same weather, you are sharing the same weather, built environment, natural landscape and social and political context as your new neighbor, and a gradual blurring of boundaries usually results. Immigrants’ communities rarely remain perfect view and monocultural for long. Usually, they start mixing locals from one day – even if they want, or because they need.
Spent most of his adult life in British culture cities, Starmer must know it. “Migration is a part of the British national story,” he said last week. Britain is “a different country”, he also said, “And I celebrated that”. The Great Immarration Integration Palisc, such as fear and hostility of immigrants in general, a reaction to social constivates, journalists and political politicians in Britain. As with other policy areas, labor has not made favors, politics or behavior, by trying to change the ways that are cloudy and distorting the right view of the modern world.
In recent years, with immigration to unusual levels, the government has published an annual “community of community life”, measuring how the British views their neighbors and neighborhoods. The findings that are always more positive than most media or this week decreases most polls to bring you forward. According to Most recent survey“81% of adults are certain or agree that their local area is a place where people from different backgrounds are well”. Since 2013, that number never falls below 80%. In spite of all the divisions of modern Britain and the hardness of social transition, for most of us, Starmmer’s “island” is not yet come.
A hot afternoon last summer, I’m waiting for a bus to the lynn of the norfolk king, usually tolido constituency voting for a cup of tea. The first, traditional tears of tears I try early, so I followed a small sign in the cafe next to the bus station to an empty look, no intact window. Inside, in my surprise, a classic portuguese bar, with a portuguese football scarves dusting from the ceiling and old porroment portuges with drinking small glasses. The bar feels foreign and, in a confident approach to cultural difference, relatively British.
Do bars at the bar and their customers are fully united with the remaining King Lynn? Based on a short visit, it’s hard to say. But they make a very good cup of tea.
Andy Beckett is a columnist in Guardian
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